Level 2 English, 2007 - NZQA

90380R 2

Level 2 English, 2007

90380 Read unfamiliar texts and analyse the ideas and
language features

Credits: Three
2.00 pm Friday 23 November 2007

RESOURCE BOOKLET

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READING WRITTEN TEXTS – PROSE
TEXT A: Big Fish Turn the Tide on Human Predators (column / opinion-piece)
Read Text A below, then answer questions 1–3.
This column was written shortly after a young woman was seriously injured when a dolphin leapt from
the water and landed in the boat in which she was dolphin-watching.

Big Fish Turn the Tide on Human Predators
The revenge of the whales and dolphins – it had to happen …

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… Maybe they were just sniggering in click language. Let’s face it, they don’t often get their own
back.

Source (adapted): Rosemary McLeod, ‘Big Fish Turn Tide on Human Predators’, from The Sunday Star-Times, 14
January 2007, http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/3928228a16077.html (20 March 2007).

The North Island
of New Zealand
READING WRITTEN TEXTS – POETRY
TEXT B: Ohura (poem)
Read Text B below, then answer questions 4–6.

Ohura
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HAMILTON
Te Awamutu

Te Kuiti

Ohura Mt Ngauruhoe

Mt Taranaki Mt Ruapehu

NOT TO SCALE

Source: John H. Osborne, ‘Ohura’, from Montana NZ Book Awards, http://www.booksellers.co.nz/mpd_poems.htm
(27 March 2007).

READING VISUAL TEXTS
TEXT C: Nip kids’ allergies in the bud (advertisement)
Read Text C below, then answer questions 7–9.

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Source: New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, 29 May 2006.

READING ORAL TEXTS
TEXT D: Opening Address to the 33rd Pacific Islands Forum (speech)
Read Text D below, then answer questions 10–12.
The Pacific Islands Forum is made up of political leaders from Pacific nations. This speech was given by
the Hon. Laisenia Qarase, who at the time was Prime Minister of Fiji.

from The Opening Address to the 33rd Pacific Islands Forum, Fiji, 2002
While the Pacific islands are small in population and land territory, in contrast to the
billions who occupy the large land continents …

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… Small nations, which act and speak in unison, are more likely to secure their collective
interests than those who are alone.

Source (adapted): http://www.pacificforum.fiji.gov.fj/speeches.html (31 October 2003).