NATIONAL CERTIFICATE (VOCATIONAL) SUBJECT: ENGLISH FIRST ADDISIONAL LANGUAGE PAPER 2 NOVEMBER 2007

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1 NATIONAL CERTIFICATE (VOCATIONAL) SUBJECT: ENGLISH FIRST ADDISIONAL LANGUAGE PAPER 2 NQF LEVEL 2 NOVEMBER 2007 (********) (X-Paper) 09:00 12:00 EXEMPLAR QUESTION PAPER This question paper consists of 11 pages.

2 Exemplar -2- DoE/2007 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL CERTIFICATE (VOCATIONAL) ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE PAPER 2 NQF LEVEL 2 TIME: 2 HOURS MARKS: 100 INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION Answer ALL the questions. This paper consist of SIX sections SECTION A: COMPREHENSION SECTION B: SUMMARY SECTION C: GRAMMAR SECTION D: LEARNING IN A VOCATIONAL CONTEXT SECTION E: LISTENING AND SPEAKING SECTION F: POETRY AND SHORT STORIES Read the instructions at each question carefully. Number the answers correctly according to the numbering system used in this question paper. Start each section on a new page Write neatly and legibly. SECTION A: LETTER QUESTION 1 You have entered college life for the first time. Write a letter ( words) to a friend telling him/her about your first week at college. Try to mention the following: the name of your course, your lecturers, the facilities at the college, your fellow students, the activities you took part in during orientation. Keep the following in mind: Tell your friend about the course you are taking; Your lecturers; The facilities at the college;

3 Exemplar -3- DoE/2007 Your fellow students; The activities you took part in during orientation. SECTION B QUESTION 2 Use the information in the passage to make the following poster. Use the form attached as APPENDIX B to complete the poster. Remember to put your exam number on APPENDIXBA and to hand it in with your answer book. Dance There will be a dance on Friday evening, 30 January It will start at 20h00 and end at midnight. The dance will be in the College Hall. There will be soft drinks on sale. The Wriggle Teen Band from Cape Town will be playing. Admission will cost R50, but unaccompanied girls will enter free. Only 200 tickets will be sold. SECTION B Question 3: Directions Write directions for a college fun run mapped out in the diagram. The fun run starts and finishes at the 'School' in Smith Street. Write the directions in point form. Use words.

Exemplar -4- DoE/2007 SECTION C QUESTION 4 You were an eye-witness in what happened between the motorist and cyclist. Study the pictures and write a short report to the police.

4 Exemplar -4- DoE/2007 SECTION C QUESTION 4 You were an eye-witness in what happened between the motorist and cyclist. Study the pictures and write a short report to the police. Your own interpretation is important. Use the form attached as APPENDIX A to complete the report. Remember to put your exam number on APPENDIX A and to hand it in with your answer book.

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6 Exemplar -6- DoE/2007 SECTION E: QUESTION Read the extracts in the blocks below and then answer the questions on that specific sentence. Note grammar, spelling and punctuation errors A hundred years ago few poeple could imagine a world filled (with/of) robots. 1 2 Correct the spelling error in the sentence. Choose the correct word in brackets. Today robots (are/is) employed many feilds. 3 Choose the correct word in brackets. 4 Fill in the missing preposition. 5 Correct the spelling error in the sentence. Robots in factorys do anything from peeling a potato to cutting and welding, using lasers scrubbing the hulls of ships removing rivets from damaged aircraft wings and monitoring equipment inside a nuclear reactor. 6 7 Rewrite the sentence and fill in the missing punctuation marks. Correct the spelling error in the sentence. These were things that robots do to help people (there/their) work. 8 9 Choose the correct word in brackets. Fill in the missing preposition. Although impressive, robots (cannot) think intelligent yet. 10 Write the word in brackets as a contraction. its artificial brain cannot see and feel things and its' (not able) to think independently Correct the contraction error. Give one word for the words in brackets. Correct the punctuation error. in the future however robots (have) artificial intelligence and the ability -----

7 Exemplar -7- DoE/2007 learn Write the verb in brackets in the future tense. Fill in the missing preposition. Fill in the missing punctuation marks (2) This development will make peoples lives many (easy) Write the correct form of the word in brackets. Correct the grammar errors. (2) Read through the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. My Uncle Dan My Uncle Dan's an inventor you may think that's very fine. You may wish he was your uncle instead of being mine - If he wanted he could make a watch that bounces when it drops, He could make a helicopter out of string and bottle tops Or any really useful thing you can't get in the shops. But Uncle Dan has other ideas: The bottomless glass for ginger beers, The toothless saw that's safe for the tree, A Special word for a spelling bee (Like Lionocerangoutangadder), Or the roll-uppable rubber ladder, The mystery pie that bites when it's bit - My Uncle Dan invented it. My Uncle Dan sits in his den inventing night and day, His eyes peer from his hair and beard like mice from a load of hay. And does he make the shoes that will go walks without your feet? A shrinker to shrink instantly the elephants you meet? A carver that just carves from the air steaks cooked and ready to eat? No, no, he has other intentions - Only perfectly useless inventions: Glassless windows (they never break), A medicine to cure the earthquake, The unspillable screwed-down cup, The stairs that go neither down nor up, The door you simply paint on a wall - Uncle Dan invented them all.

8 Exemplar -8- DoE/2007 Ted Hughes Draw a mind map of Uncle Dan's inventions. Remember to write only the main ideas on each section. Decide on a main idea to be written in the middle of the mind map. Write 9 supporting ideas. Give only the names of his inventions. SECTION C Question 4: Report ACCIDENT REPORT Date of accident Name of victims Place where accident took place How accident took place Report written by Address of person who wrote the report Telephone number Signed

9 Exemplar -9- DoE/2007 Exam Number APPENDIX B DANCE On.. In.. From. To.. Music by From.. Admission. But.. Only. available Buy your ticket quickly TOTAL: 100

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