*****2014 LC English Paper One - all levels - June 4th 2014*****

Osmosis Jones

I barely got through three pages of the composition, felt all I had written was fairly high quality though. Did the comprehension on Canada and the speech about influences and they both went really well IMO. Did horribly in the composition in my mocks too and still came out with an A2 overall so not the biggest disaster if I can do well tomorrow.

sarahkiely125

I am literally in agony. Can someone please tell me does it make sense to say that young people are influenced positively by our heros, the positive effects of education and influenced negatively by the media, facebook and the detrimental effects of the recession? I said the recession can be negative for young people .. unsure as to weather its correct

peekachoo

Calvin Leong wrote: »

The title of my article was "How do you know weather you're obsessed?" - was quite proud of that one tbh.

:pac::pac::pac:
A1 before even reading the article hahaaha

LeavingCertee

Ah the looks on people's faces when Heaney appeared was priceless, Heaney appearing on Paper I AND Paper 2 though.. I can't see that happening. Interesting theme though, and very doable question As

Hotale.com

Heaney as a comprehension

Anyone else do the video games/pop music question A? Part 3 was a nightmare in it!

Striving470

If you write extra points on comprehension...does it build up your marks?

onethreefive

You know the comprehension about Canada was the landscape in which the extract set just one place or were there multiple different landscapes?

JD244

Flip how many marks for the composition title.... I hate you hindsight....

EoghanIRL

It was so easy . I was actually shocked .

Had pretty much done that sort of essay before . It was so general aswell . I did part b from t2 and the long question on exerting influences and young people. I was shocked how general it was .
I even got my quotes from George Orwell etc in on section 2 . Delighted

Hope everyone else is also content .

Hotale.com

sarahkiely125 wrote: »

I am literally in agony. Can someone please tell me does it make sense to say that young people are influenced positively by our heros, the positive effects of education and influenced negatively by the media, facebook and the detrimental effects of the recession? I said the recession can be negative for young people .. unsure as to weather its correct

Doesn't matter if it's correct as long as you justified your assertions

Kyro

Hotale.com wrote: »

Heaney as a comprehension

Anyone else do the video games/pop music question A? Part 3 was a nightmare in it!

I did. I didn't really like the questions on it but I'm not very creative for B so Text 1 was the only one I would've done well on so I had to do Text 2 for A. Thought I did well enough though in the end.

spurious

Striving470 wrote: »

If you write extra points on comprehension...does it build up your marks?

You mean more than you were asked to?
You can't score higher than the amount of marks it says are allotted for the question.

LoveLamps

Hotale.com wrote: »

Heaney as a comprehension

Anyone else do the video games/pop music question A? Part 3 was a nightmare in it!

I did! I thought question (iii) was alright, got through it anyway!

So i have heaney/dickinson/yeats

Who should i cram? Bishop or mahon? Or both..

I reeeaally need advice!

robman60

peekachoo wrote: »

So I did the sci fi short story, and there was a plot line etc but it was essentially about this tiger that takes on the physical attributes of his prey after eating it. For example in the story we see him eating a small colourful bird and after his fur reflects the colours of the bird and stuff...
that's not too bizarre for sci fi, right? :rolleyes::P

Haha that's excellent! I thought that looked like a pretty difficult title really but that's definitely an original interpretation of the title! I was hoping for a speech I could go all political on so I'm glad I got one.

Kyro

onethreefive wrote: »

You know the comprehension about Canada was the landscape in which the extract set just one place or were there multiple different landscapes?

I'm sure they drove from one place to another to another or something.

Like they were driving north.

Hotale.com

LoveLamps wrote: »

I did! I thought question (iii) was alright, got through it anyway!

So i have heaney/dickinson/yeats

Who should i cram? Bishop or mahon? Or both..

I reeeaally need advice!

Mahon's a dote.

Saskatchewan

Anyone else notice the bit of an allusion to yeats at the end of text two?

Badwulf

So what did you guys write for the talk?

I wrote about how your parents have a positive influence on you and how they will always be there to pick you up, then went on about how celebrities and media influence todays youth negativially with ads of really skinny chicks and doing reckless and dangerous behaviour :pac: also threw in a bit of humour for the audience

peekachoo

robman60 wrote: »

Haha that's excellent! I thought that looked like a pretty difficult title really but that's definitely an original interpretation of the title! I was hoping for a speech I could go all political on so I'm glad I got one.

:cool: !!

Delighted for ya so

b0gg3r

Not too bad for me, my essay wast utter ****e, but 4 pages.

Striving470

Did anyone else answer heaney comprehension?

Saskatchewan

For the influences in young peoples lives I wrote about slender man.....

Striving470

spurious wrote: »

You mean more than you were asked to?
You can't score higher than the amount of marks it says are allotted for the question.

So they'll pick your best 3 on a 15 mark? That's cool...suppose it's better than only having 2 points. Timing wasn't an issue...happy days!

Badwulf

Saskatchewan wrote: »

For the influences in young peoples lives I wrote about slender man.....

Never too soon :P

robman60

Striving470 wrote: »

Did anyone else answer heaney comprehension?

Yes, I did. I kind of regretted it in hindsight but I wanted to avoid the style question in text 2 and had already chosen text 1 for the B question. I thought it was pretty difficult as the first two questions were essentially the same, yet I didn't want to repeat points I'd made.

For the third part I mentioned his manipulation of language, and ability to use language effectively as well as his use of anecdotal evidence. I thought I should include another point but I couldn't identify any really!

What did you mention for the third part?

LimeTimee

OL ENGLISH IS SO EZ

a0ifee

Saskatchewan wrote: »

Anyone else notice the bit of an allusion to yeats at the end of text two?

yeah! i skimmed the texts then i looked at the composition and when I saw that quote I was like..there's a yeats comprehension too?!

Osmosis Jones

Badwulf wrote: »

So what did you guys write for the talk?

I wrote about how your parents have a positive influence on you and how they will always be there to pick you up, then went on about how celebrities and media influence todays youth negativially with ads of really skinny chicks and doing reckless and dangerous behaviour :pac: also threw in a bit of humour for the audience

Used parents too and spoke about my dad as a personal influence, then used the influence of judgement for negative.

aleatorio

For my part B I wrote a formal letter to JK Rowling and talked about how a diary I had as a child influenced my interest in reading a writing today
Then for the composition I did the ghost story one and wrote about a group of friends who met up for a reunion after 20 years of not seeing eachother, but then it turns out that one of them had died 2 years earlier despite being present at the reunion :pac:

7jy

for the article on the weather, was it necessary to include a title/publication/date/name/position? Somehow got it into my head that was only necessary for part B articles and now stressing out...