O-LevelEnglish LanguageReading for Meaning1123/21 · May/June 2015 · Q83 Marks
From paragraph 4
- (a)Griet's mother was ‘hunching her shoulders as if against a winter chill'. Explain fully why she was doing that. [2][2]
- (b)Which disability meant that Griet's father could no longer work? [1][1]
Mark scheme
Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2015). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.
- [1] she was upset / sorry / guilty / unhappy / sad / (Allow: Beaten / despondent / depressed / powerless)
- [1] because Griet is going to / has to work as a servant / maid // because she has to tell Griet that she has to be / work as a servant / maid // because she has to / doesn't want to give / tell (Griet) bad news // what she has to say is not easy (Allow: Because she knows Griet will be unhappy with the/ her news, She doesn't want her daughter to be a servant / leave / to be lost (to her), Because her daughter / Griet is leaving)
- [1] blindness / he is blind / he has no eyes / he could not see / he has lost his sight / vision (Allow: The lift of line 33 'one day the kiln had exploded, taking his eyes' Excess denies)
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