English First Additional Language

ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE

GRADE 11 – 2009

PAPER 1 – LANGUAGE

TIME: 2 HOURS

MARKS: 80

INSTRUCTIONS

· Answer all the questions.

· Begin the answer of each section on a NEW page.

· If you do rough work for SECTION B, remember to draw a line through the rough work.

· Write neatly and legible (readable).

· Leave a line between your answers.

· Pay special attention to spelling and sentence construction.

Section A: Comprehension

Question 1

Read the following passage and answer the questions set on it:

Kgosietsile’s haircut

by Milton Nkosi

Kgosietsile is my son. His name means ‘the King has come’. He was born in a private clinic in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg in February 2001. Thirty-five years previously, in the same month, I was born in house number 9982b Ntombela Street, Orlando West, Soweto. The neighbourhood was known as Mzimhlope. Kgosi was born in the year when passenger planes were flown into the twin towers in New York. In the year that I was born, Botswana and Lesotho won independence from British colonial rule, Nelson Mandela was spending his second year in jail and the architect of grand apartheid, Hendrik Verwoerd, was stabbed to death.

Chief, as we call Kgosi nowadays, doesn’t know anything about these events and indeed nothing about South Africa’s apartheid history. So I’m keen not only to teach him, but for him to experience history first-hand. I regularly take him to Soweto for his haircut. It is a huge effort because we live twenty-nine kilometers from 1st Hair Salon on Vundla Drive, Rockville. But I want my son to know Soweto, to know where we come from and what happened there. It’s immensely worrying for me to think that I may be bringing up a smal black middle-class boy, who has no direct connection with his history as a black person in South Africa. You see, Chief lives in Fairlands, a comfortable suburb in north-western Johannesburg. He has his own bedroom, he has the use of a swimming pool and goes to a private creche and speaks English. Though I’m proud to say without an accent – yet!

Soweto is critical when it comes to educating my son in the languages of his country. The place helps me to teach hom Zulu, Sotho, Tswana, Swazi, Afrikaans and tsotsitaal. All these languages are eloquently spoken in the townships, because Soweto is a mixed masala, a true reflection of the composition of modern day South African society. As well as the three million black people residing there, you’ll find a few white faces of priests, doctors, artists and lots of international tourists. For this reason I love Soweto: it’s where my son can get his bearings.

There are many black middle-class people in the new South Africa who regard living in the suburbs, away from the townships, as a form of status. It separates them from the ugly apartheid past. They only enjoy listening to their children speak English with an English accent, or a kugel accent that is spoken by white women from Sandton and the surrounding boom-fenced suburbs. Well, we differ. Mkotjo Moto, one of my closest friends also takes his sons Motoa and Lebo to Soweto for their haircuts. We form part of a group of South Africans who want their families to be very much connected to their past. As Bob Marley once sang: In this great future we can’t forget our past. It is the country of my soul.

Roberts, A and Thloloe, J (Eds): Soweto inside out, Penguin Books, 2004, pg. 175-6

1.1 Choose the correct answer from the options given below. Write ONLY the number of the question and the LETTER of the option you have chosen.

The main focus of the article is on:

A. the importance of getting a haircut in Soweto

B. the importance of understanding one’s past history

C. the shortcomings of living in the Northern suburbs

D. the people who live in Soweto.

(1)

1.2 In your own words explain why, despite the distance, the writer takes his son to Soweto for his haircut.

(2)

1.3 Indicate whether the following statement is TRUE or FALSE and QUOTE THREE consecutive words to prove your answer.

Nelson Mandela was spending his second year in jail when Kgosi was born.

(2)

1.4 What is meant by the word architect as used in Paragraph 1?

(2)

1.5 Quote a phrase from the first paragraph which tells us that Kgosi and his father were both born in February.

(1)

1.6 Indicate whether the following statement is TRUE or FALSE and QUOTE SIX consecutive words to prove your answer.

The writer’s son has a nickname.

(2)

1.7 The writer is interested in history. Do you agree? Justify your answer by referring to the passage.

(3)

1.8 Provide a synonym for huge (paragragp 2).

(1)

1.9 Why is it a huge effort to take Kgosi to the hair salon? Use your OWN words.

(2)

1.10 Quote ONE word which indicates that the writer has often taken his son to the hair salon in Soweto. (Paragraph 2)

(1)

1.11 Why does the writer love Soweto? Use your own words.

(1)

1.12 Explain the meaning of tsotsitaal.

(1)

1.13 Quote ONE word which tells us that people speak fluently and well.

(1)

1.14 In what ways are the writer and his closest friends different from some other middle-class black people?

(3)

1.15 The expression mixed masala means that Soweto’s population is:

A. spicy

B. completely black

C. multilingual

D. critical

(1)

1.16 The writer says you will see a ‘few white faces’ in Soweto. In your OWN words explain what these people are doing in Soweto.

(3)

1.17 Quote ONE word from paragraph 4 which suggests that the writer hated Apartheid.

(1)

1.18 In your OWN words explain what the writer believes to be the ‘country of his soul.’

(2)

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SECTION B: SUMMARY

QUESTION 2

Road deaths, bad driving and road rage are part of our lives. Read through the passage below and IN NOT MORE THAN 50 WORDS list FIVE rules for motorists.

Instructions

1. List FIVE rules in full sentence.

2. Number your sentences 1 to 5.

3. Write only ONE rule per sentence.

4. Use your own words as far as possible.

5. Indicate the total number of words you have used in brackets at the end of your summary.

6. You will be penalized for exceeding the maximum number of words or failing to indicate the number of words used.

Rules for motorists

One point which many people disregard with spine-chilling recklessness is to observe speed limits. Unfortunately it appears that our thechnology has created cars that are too fast for the human race to handle. Nevertheless, whatever the circumstances, it is better to slow down and be a few minutes late than to arrive dead on time.

Speeding becomes extremely dangerous in poor visibility due to the darkness, rain or dust. The rule is to reduce one’s speed by 10 km/h for every circumstance thate negatively affects driving conditions. Therefore, if the speed limit is 100km/h and you are driving at night in pouring rain you must reduce your speed by at least 20km/h, that is, travel at a maximum speed of 80km/h. Also reduce by 10km/h when dipping headlights.

Speaking of headlights – these should be switched on and diped the moment the sun sets or disappears behind a dark cloud. Switching on parking lights is entirely ineffectual. The purpose of having headlights on in poor light is to make one’s own vehicle visible to other drivers.

Other motorists are, of course, an important factor on the road. In the defensive approach to driving, the motorist checks the rear veiw and side mirrors as well as blind spots about every two minutes to make sure what the positions of other vehicles are.

Not only children inside the vehicle but also those outside should be looked after. Motorists are notorious for noticing only obects larger than themselves. A safe driver is therefore consciously looking out for cyclists, motor cyclists and pedestrians. Children in particular are very impulsive and will run without regard into any traffic. Cyclists and motor cyclists are not only fond of weaving ina nd out of traffic but also seem to appear ‘out of the blue’.

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SECTION C: LANGUAGE

Question 3

Read the following passage and tehn answer the questions that follow.

Of the kramats (graves of important people or saints) buried on the ridges of Signal Hill and Table Mountain, very little is known. Their histories have as yet not been written up and the oral accounts that exist are full of mystery and uncertainty. Yet there are several graves along these mountain ridges which have been positively identified by spiritualists as the burial places of holy people. Who is buried in these graves? Why were they buried in these places which must have been hard to get to during the time when they lived?

The second question is probably easier to answer than the first. We know that the Signal Hill and Table Mountain ridges were convenient hiding places for runaway slaves. Their inaccessibility made it very hard for their pursuers to find them and the mountains were still close enough for the runaways to keep in contact with their families.

Cape history is full of stories about runaway slaves hiding in the mountains.

Adapted from the article by Achmat Davids in Boorhaanrol Newsletter Vol. 25 No. 2

3.1 Rewrite the following sentences. Begin as indicated.

3.1.1 Of the Kramats buried on Signal Hill very little is known.

We know…

(1)

3.1.2 The second question is probably easier to answer than the first.

We can…

(1)

3.2 Combine the following two sentence:

Table Mountain was a convenient hiding place for runaway slaves.

Its inaccessibility made it hard for pursuers to find the runaways.

(1)

3.3 Choose the best antonym for the following phrase: ‘full of mystery and uncertainty’

A. unclear

B. factual

C. doubtful

D. historical

(1)

3.4 Give the correct form of the words in brackets or choose the correct words. Write only the answer next to the question number.

Robert Ross in his book, ‘Cape of Torments’ 3.4.1 (give/gives) us an 3.4.2 (excite) account of the run-away slave community that 3.4.3 (to live) in the Hangklip mountains. He describes how the slaves first found 3.4.4 (to hide) places on Table Mountain and from 3.4.5 (here/there) worked 3.4.6 (there/their) way across to Hangklip.

(6)

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Question 4

Study the advertisement below and then answer the questions:

4.1 What is the target market of this advertisement?

(1)

4.2 What is the main image of this advertisement?

(1)

4.3 What does the words “POUR-ON” suggest about the product?

(2)

4.4 Name the two ways in which the advertisement indicate where the product should be applied?

(2)

4.5 Explain the statement ‘an invisible collar.’

(3)

4.6 Who or what are ‘your pooch’s unwelcome guests’?

(2)

4.7 What is the bad news for those unwelcome guests?

(2)

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QUESTION 5

Read the passage below and then asnwer the questions:

The following dialogue is an extract from the play Not about heroes which deals with the friendship between two poets from World War One, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. They are in hospital together.

WO: Did you think you’d….that you’d die?

SS: Certain of it. And, do you know, as I lay there with all this stuff oozing out of my head, I was thinking that my last words ought to be memorable. But I couldn’t think of a single thing to say except, ‘My head hurts.’

WO: And that was it?

SS: That’s all. You were right. This war is not about heroes.

WO: It’s really about boys of 19 being shot in the throat and dying before they’ve had time to live.

5.1 What is you’d an abbreviation of? Write it out in full.

(1)

5.2 What is they’ve an abbreviation of? Write it out in full.

(1)

5.3 Rewrite line 1 in REPORTED speech. Begin with Owen asked whether…

(3)

5.4 In what TWO ways does the writer indicate that the actor in line 1 should hesitate as he speaks?

(3)

5.5 ‘Certain of it’ is not a proper grammatically correct sentence. Rewrite it correctly.

(1)

5.6 The best explanation of oozing (line 2) is

A. drifting

B. leaking

C. pouring

D. flying

(1)

5.7 The best explanation for ‘ought to be memorable is’

A should be easy to remember

B. should be remembered

C. should be important and meaningful

D. should reflect in pain

(1)

5.8 Rewrite 19 in full.

(1)

5.9 Provide a synonym for last (line 4).

(1)

5.10 Provide an antonym for heroes (line 6).

(line 1)

5.11 Using your OWN words say what Wilfred Owen believes the war was about.

(3)

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Total 40

Grand Total: 80