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A-LevelEnglish LanguageDirected WritingOct/Nov 2022Paper 1 Q125 Marks

Read the following text, which is an extract from the book The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, by the investigative journalist Sonia Shah, about human migration. The towering Dhauladhar mountain range, with its eighteen-thousand-foot peaks, looms over the precariously perched village of McLeodganj, nestled on a forested ridge nearly seven thousand feet up in the foothills of the Himalayas. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. Each of their perilous journeys over glaciers and high mountain passes took a month.

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About This A-Level English Language Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level English Language (9093) Oct/Nov 2022 examination, Paper 1 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Directed Writing and is worth 25 marks.

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