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Candidate registration number:

Centre:

Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes

Integrated Skills in English

ISE III

The Controlled Written examination

Saturday 29 May 2010 10.00am12.30pm

Instructions to candidates

1. Write your name, candidate number and centre number on the front of this examination paper.

2. You must not open this examination paper until instructed to do so.

3. This examination paper containsthreetasks. You must complete all tasks.

4. Use blue or black pen, notpencil.

5. Write your answers on the examination paper.

6. Do all rough work on the examination paper. Cross through any work you do not want marked.

7. You must notuse a dictionary in this examination.

8. You must notuse correction fluid on the examination paper.

Information for candidates

The tasks in this examination have equal weighting.

You are advised to spend about 70 minutes on Task 1, 40 minutes on Task 2 and about 40 minutes on Task 3.

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Integrated Skills in English III

Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes

This examination paper contains three tasks. You must complete all tasks.

Task 1 Reading into writing task

Read the information below and then, in your own words, write an article (approximately 300 words)

for a sociology publication:

i) summarising the information given about the popularity of online social networks, saying how

they have revolutionised the way people communicate with each other and

ii) explaining how you believe these networks are changing our lives, both for better and for worse.

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Use your own words as far as possible. No marks for answers copied from the reading texts.

You must make reference to both the text and the graphic information in your answer.

A social revolution

More than 24 million British citizens are now surfing social networks like Bebo, MySpace and

Facebook. Bebo caters for a largely teenage audience and has 18 million users, 11.2 million

in the UK alone. MySpace connects music fans with their rock and pop idols, gathering

an audience of 110 million (10 million in Britain) across the age spectrum. But Facebook is

grabbing the headlines, with a phenomenal 7 million British users, mostly students and young

professionals, having signed up in little over a year and spending an average of half an hour

every day checking in.

Its the internet equivalent of a continuous video-conference call between friends, in which a

user presents his or her face to the world, sharing as much of themselves as they want to

with photographs, personal information, diaries, plans and so on.

Where postcards, letters, phone calls, emails and meetings were once normal methods of

communication, Facebook and its competitors have become individuals own personal domains

for exchanging news, ideas, dates, business and social interaction with virtually unlimited

audiences on the web.

Its popularity has spread like a virus in little over a year and become so addictive, so quickly

that surveys claim social-network sites are costing British business up to 6.5 billion in lost

productivity. Now, two-thirds of British companies are said to be banning or restricting access

to such sites.

Even governments are feeling threatened. Syria blocked access to Facebook as part of acrackdown on online political activism. Likewise, China has banned video-sharing without

government approval.

The more excitable prophets say that social networks are changing our lives for ever, for better

and for worse. We are in the middle of a social revolution that is evolving so rapidly, few can

predict either its impact beyond the next few months, or the fallout in years to come.

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(Source: Adapted from The Sunday Times magazine)

The top 10 social networks inthe UK by total internet visits

37.70%

28.00%

18.97%

2.01%

1.99%

1.25%

1.19%

1.05%

0.88%

0.85%

Facebook

Bebo

MySpace

Faceparty

WindowsLive Spaces

BBC h2g2

StumbleUpon

Club Penguin

FriendsReunited UK

Yahoo!Groups

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Task 2 Correspondence task

Your local council has recently placed a communal rubbish bin in the street immediately outside

your home. This is causing a lot of problems for you noise at all hours of the day and night, bad

smells and illegal dumping. Write a formal letter (approximately 250 words) of complaint to the

Waste Management department of the council, outlining your objections to the rubbish bin and

requesting immediate action to solve the problem.

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Task 3 Creative writing task

Write a short story (approximately 250 words) for a writing competition, showing how the life of a

singer or actor is often much harder and less glamorous than the public image portrays.

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