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MODULE 1 – GATHERING AND PROCESSING INFORMATION

1. Say to the candidates:

Items 1-7 constitute Section A of this paper. They are based of an extract of prose, which I
will read to you. You will be given two minutes to look at the items before you listen to the
extract.
You are required to listen carefully to the extract before answering the items. You may make
notes while you listen to the readings. You must NOT begin to answer the items until you
are told to do so.

2. Say to the candidates:

Look at the items for two minutes.

3. Two minutes later, say to the candidates:

Now listen carefully while I read this extract twice. Remember, you may make notes as I read.

4.
Read the following extract at a normal pace. Do NOT dictate the extract for the candidates to write.

Spring weather came on rather suddenly, the unsealing of buds that had long been swollen
accomplishing itself in the space of one warm night. The rush of sap in the veins of the
trees could almost be heard.

The flowers of late April took up a position unseen, and looked as if they had been
blooming a long while, though there had been no trace of them the day before yesterday;
birds began not to mind getting wet.

In-door people said they had heard the nightingale, to which out-door people replied
contemptuously that they had heard him a fortnight before.

The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy

5. After you have read the extract the first time, pause for a few seconds and then say to the candidates:

I shall now read you the extract a second time.

GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE

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6. After you have read the extract a second time, pause for a few seconds and then say to the candidates:

You now have 90 minutes to answer all the items on Paper 1. When you are finished answering
those items that are based on this extract, go straight to Section B and answer items 8-45. Do
not wait for any further instructions. The invigilator will tell you when the last 15 minutes
are left.

7. Quietly invite the invigilator to take over the examination process.

Instructions to the invigilator

8. Seventy-five minutes later, tell candidates that they have 15 minutes left.

9. Fifteen minutes later, at the end of the allotted 90 minutes, collect all papers and dismiss the candidates.