Edexcel IGCSEEnglish LanguageGeneral Applications6 Marks
Read the following extract from 'The Silent Watcher' and answer the questions below.
- (a)Identify one word used to describe the house in the first paragraph.[1]
- (b)What impression does the phrase 'vacant eyes' create about the windows?[2]
- (c)Give two details from the extract that suggest the house has been empty for a long time.[3]
Mark scheme
Marking points from the official mark scheme. The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.
- Part (a): B1 for 'hunched' OR 'old' OR 'desolate'.
- Part (b): B1 for identifying 'vacant eyes' suggests emptiness/lack of life/staring out.
- B1 for explaining the impression of loneliness/despair/haunting/foreboding/lack of purpose.
- Part (c): B1 for 'dust motes danced' OR 'faded grandeur' OR 'grandfather clock, long silent' OR 'pendulum frozen mid-swing' OR 'faint scent of damp earth and decaying lavender' OR 'olfactory ghost of former inhabitants'.
- B1 for a second distinct detail from the list above.
- B1 for a third distinct detail from the list above.
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