ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE
PAPER 2
Grade 9 27 NOVEMBER 2012
TIME: 1 HOUR (11:55 – 12:55)
TOTAL: 40
INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS
- This paper consists out of:
Section A: Poetry (20)
Section B: The play of the diary of Anne Frank (20)
Section C: I am David (20)
- Section A must be answered by everyone.
- Choose if you want to answer Section B OR Section C.
- Leave three lines open before you write your name, surname, grade and section.
- Leave a margin of 2cm on the right hand side of the page for marks.
- Leave a line open between answers.
- Begin the answer of each SECTION on a NEW page.
- Number the questions exactly as they are numbered in the question paper.
- Write extremely neat!!
SECTION A – POETRY
QUESTION 1
Answer all the questions
The start of a removal by Sipho Sepamla
On a Monday morning
when some people were hailing taxis
others rushing to buses and trains
when teachers and school-children
were packing their books
peeping out of windows to see so-and-so
their time keeper
was leaving for the factory or office-job
when the local businessman
eyes large and sleepy
like he was an owl
sat at the till
waiting for the early customer
to make his insomnia worthwhile
when the housewives
started bending
their overused frames
raising dust on the pavement
in front of their yards
with home-made grass brooms
when a midwife wearily flung
instructions at an old lady
whose daughter had just
given birth to her third child
by her third ‘boyfriend’
the first five families
woke up
to the drone of bull-dozers
and the impatience of heavy trucks
The removal had started!
1.1 Identify the figure of speech in line 11.
(1)
1.2 What does ‘hailing’ mean (line 2)?
(1)
1.3 What does ‘insomnia’ mean (line 14)?
(1)
1.4 Do you think the poet presents us with an effective description of what an ‘ordinary’ Monday morning is like? Explain your answer.
(2)
1.5 Why do you think the poet waits so long (25 lines) to say that the removal has started. Why does he not say it in the first line?
(2)
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Drummer Hodge
I
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined – just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veld around;
And foreign constellations west
Each night above his mound.
II
Young Hodge the Drummer never Knew -
Fresh from his Wessex home –
The meaning of the broad Karoo,
The Bush, the dusty loam,
And why uprose to nightly view
Strange stars amid the gloam.
III
Yet portion of that unknown plain
Will Hodge forever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow to some Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.
1.6 What is special about the surname “Hodge”?
(1)
1.7 Quote words from the poem that show Drummer Hodge was inexperienced and unfamiliar with the Karoo.
(2)
1.8 Explain how Hodge will forever be a part of the Karoo.
(2)
1.9 Quote a word from the poem which shows Drummer Hodge was buried without respect.
(1)
Inside my Zulu hut by Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
It is a hive
without any bees
to build the walls
with golden bricks of honey.
A cave cluttered
with a millstone,
calabashes of sour milk
claypots of foaming beer
sleeping grass mats
wooden head reasts
tanned goat skins
tied with riempies
to wattle rafters
blackened by the smoke
of kneaded cow dung
burning under
the three legged pot
on the earthen-floor
to cook my porridge
1.10 What is the Zulu hut compared with?
(1)
1.11 What type of poem is this? Lyrical or Narrative
(1)
1.12 What is a millstone used for?
(1)
1.13 Name three objects that are typically used by Zulus.
(3)
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SECTION B –THE PLAY OF THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
MR FRANK It was a thief. That noise must have scared him away.
MRS VAN DAAN Thank God
MR FRANK He took the cash box. And the radio. He ran away in such a hurry that he didn’t stop to shut the street door. It was swinging wide open.
(A breath of relief sweeps over the others.)
MARGOT Are you sure it’s all right?
MR FRANK The danger passed.
(MARGOT goes to the table-lamp and switches it on.)
Don’t be so terrified, Anne. We’re safe.
DUSSEL Who says the danger has passed? Don’t you realize we are in greater danger than ever?
MR FRANK Mr Dussel, will you be still.
DUSSEL (pointing to PETER) Thanks to this clumsy fool, there’s someone now who knows we’re up here. Someone now knows we’re up here, hiding.
MRS VAN DAAN Someone knows we’re here, yes. But who is the someone? A thief. You think a thief is going to go to the Green Police and say – I was robbing a place the other night and I heard a noise up over my head? You think a thief is going to do that?
DUSSEL Yes. I think he will.
MRS VAN DAAN (hysterically) You’re crazy. (She stumbles back to her seat at the table.)
(PETER follows protectively, pushes DUSSEL aside, then sits on his stool and comforts his mother.)
DUSSEL I think some day he’ll be caught and then he’ll make a bargain with the Green Police – if they’ll let him off, he’ll tell them where some Jews are hiding. (He goes into his room and sinks down on to his bed.)
MR VAN DAAN He’s right.
ANNE (terrified) Father, let’s get out of here. We can’t stay here now. Let’s go.
MR VAN DAAN Go! Where?
MRS FRANK (sinking into her place at the table, in despair) Yes. Where?
(MR FRANK rises quickly and surveys the ‘family’ as they slump in their places. He knows he must restore their courage.)
2.1 How did the people in the annex know there was a thief in the offices?
(2)
2.2 What noise must have scared the thief away?
(1)
2.3 Why was it dangerous for the street door to be left open?
(1)
2.4 Say whether the following statement is TRUE or FALSE. Give a reason for your answer.
Mr Dussel is a pessimist.
(2)
2.5 Why does Mr Frank tell Mr Dussel to be quiet when Dussel says they are in greater danger?
(1)
2.6 Whose opinion about the thief’s actions do you belief the most: Mrs van Daan or Mr Dussel. Give a reason for your answer.
(2)
2.7 Why would the police be interested to know that some Jews are hiding somewhere?
(2)
2.8 Anne says they must go and live somewhere else. Why can’t they?
(2)
2.9 What must they all wait for before they can leave the place where they live now?
(2)
2.10 What would happen to them if they get caught?
(2)
2.11 Quickly recap during what time in history these events are taking place. Write down three facts.
(3)
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SECTION C – I AM DAVID
Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
He was confused with so many impressions that he could not grasp anything properly at first. The house was full of things, and there were women in black dresses and white aprons who must be maids. And there was a very beautiful woman who turned out to be the children’s mother, and she laughed and cried almost in the same breath, and it was very difficult to escape here caresses. Then they telephoned for a doctor, and David said he would like to wash, but they would not let him – not before the doctor had been, they said, for he must not get water on his burns, and it was no use David’s saying he did not think he was very badly burnt.
Then the doctor came and said David was right. Maria had come to no harm at all because David had carried her so quickly through the fire. David could thank the thick soles of his feet, he said, that the had got off so lightly from his act of herosism. he was a little burnt abtout the hands and arms and legs, but it would not be long before the recovered.
David knew that doctors were good men – they were seldom allowed inside the camp, and the other prisoners had always told him that doctors were there to help people when they were ill. So he submitted quietly while the doctor touched him and wiped the dirt away with something from a bottle. It hurt all the time, and then the doctor put something else on his burns, and that hurt, too. But the doctor explained that if he did not do it, the burns would be more painful the next day. David must just go to sleep now, and then he would feel better when he woke up again.
The doctor was right, too. David did feel better. He felt fine, in fact, although his hands were still rather painful. He opened his eyes and remembered that he was lying in a bed! He shifted his position slightly, but the bed still felt wonderfully soft. He sat up to see what it was like, and the bed gave under his weight and gently rocked him. So that was what a bed was: a big box on legs, made of dark polished wood with … pillows and sheets.
Yes, it was going to be most interesting to see what a house looked like! And he thought of all the words he would now be able to use. He knw many words he had never used because he was afraid that not knowing th things they referred to he might use them wrongly and show his ignorance. Sheets. Fancy sleeping every night in a soft bed like that where you did not feel cold … and between soft white sheets, knowing everything round you was perfectly clean!
3.1 Briefly say what David’s impression is of the children he met:
3.1.1 Carlo
(2)
3.1.2 Maria
(2)
3.2 Why was David burnt?
(3)
3.3 Why is David not familiar with things in a house?
(1)
3.4 Why does David have such thick soles?
(1)
3.5 Where is David going to and why is he going there?
(1)
3.6 Explain briefly how the following people helped David when he met them along the road:
3.6.1 The English couple, when the man lost his glasses.
(2)
3.6.2 The American couple that ran out of fuel.
(2)
3.7 How did King help David to get into Denmark?
(3)
3.8 Why did David leave this family that he is with now?
(2)
3.9 What lesson did you learn from this story?
(1)
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