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  EXTENDED RESPONSE [PAPER1] IGCSE (First Language) Extended Response Practice 1, November 2019   Passage A: Creative writing class   Stan has decided many years after leaving school that he would like to join an adult creative writing class. This is the first lesson.   Stan’s pen was ready to write. ‘A limerick,’ the tutor had said, ‘is a five-line poem. Lines one, two and five rhyme. Lines three and four are shorter and they rhyme.’ Stan knew that the true definition was more technical, but was happy that this activity wasn’t going to be too challenging.   He thought back to his arrival at class today. A group of 10, they’d sat in a circle with Sumitra, the tutor, who asked the students to introduce themselves and share their reasons for joining the class. The first person was Miss Roberts, who stated confidently, ‘I intend to be a published writer!’ before turning a beaming smile on others of lesser ambition. A thin, young man told the g...

  Item 3: IGCSE/ First Language English/ Paper11 / November 2019 Passage A In this passage, the writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, describes his experience on first arriving by ship in New York over 120 years ago.   Of my wanderings in New York City, I hesitate to tell. I had a thousand and one things to do; only the day to do them in, before starting a journey across the continent in the evening. It rained with patient fury. Every now and then I had to get under cover for a while in order to give my raincoat a rest as it began to grow damp on the inside from this continued drenching. I went to banks, post offices, railway offices, restaurants, booksellers, money changers, and wherever I went a pool would gather about my feet, and those who were concerned about the state of their floors looked at me with unfriendly eyes. ...