A description should create a deserted, neglected garden without introducing a person. Which sentence meets both requirements?
L13 · Paper 1 Q5
Paper 1 Q5: description
A description moves from a station roof to the platform and then to one abandoned glove. Which sequence preserves that movement from a wide view to a close detail?
Your school magazine is collecting new writing for its winter issue. Choose one of these tasks, and plan before you write.
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A writer is sustaining the impression that an empty sports hall has become unnaturally still. Which added detail develops that impression without changing the scene into an active event?
A description begins: "The beach lay pale and empty. Even the sea seemed reluctant to disturb it." The writer wants to introduce a slight disturbance while keeping the quiet mood. Which continuation fits?
A writer describes a neglected greenhouse through a sustained image of a building barely holding itself upright. Which detail develops that image coherently?
A description centres on the last stall remaining after a market closes. Which added sentence keeps that focus and suggests the day's activity through a physical trace?
A writer wants to suggest a grandmother's absence through an ordinary object, without explaining where she has gone or declaring the narrator's feelings. Which sentence follows that approach?
A description task offers a photograph of a harbour at dawn, showing boats, gulls and a lighthouse. Which plan uses the picture as a starting point and invents beyond it?
Line 3 of the reading extract you have just studied reads: 'The lamp swung above the door, throwing its thin light across the wet cobbles.' You are now describing a street at night. Which opening sentence is your own work rather than a copy with a few words changed?
Choose one of these tasks. Plan before you write, and leave time to check your work.
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Answer one of these two tasks. You have about 45 minutes, including time to plan and check.
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Choose one of these tasks. Plan before you write, and leave time to check your work.
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A description of a closed theatre uses the repeated image of waiting: folded programmes, a curtain hanging still and a clock with stopped hands. It should end by slightly unsettling that image, staying in the present and keeping the theatre empty. Which ending fits?
A first-person description of a childhood street returns repeatedly to things that appear smaller now. The tone is restrained, and no explanation of the change should be stated directly. Which final detail sustains the perspective and lets the reader infer the narrator's growth?
A description of a flood-damaged music room avoids naming sadness. It moves from watermarks on the walls to silent instruments and ends at a piano. The writer wants a final two-sentence image that narrows to one detail, implies interrupted human activity and keeps the subdued atmosphere. Which ending fulfils that design?
Answer one of these two tasks. You have about 45 minutes, including time to plan and check.
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