Eduqas – English Language – Sport – Component 2

19th and 21st Century Non-Fiction Reading and Transactional/Persuasive Writing

2 hours

SECTION A: 40 marks

Answer all the following questions.

Read the handbook passage, ‘The Cricket Field’.

1 1       a)  What sort of people, according to the writer, play cricket?                                   [1]

b)  What type of temper should a cricket play have?                                           [1]

c)  What are the widest shoulders of little use without?                                            [1]

1 2       How does the writer try to show that cricket demands both physical and mental discipline?

You should comment on:

• what is said
• the use of language, tone and structure                                                                 [10]

You must refer to the text to support your comments, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.

To answer the following questions you will need to read the essay Ethics and Evolution of Boxing.

1 3       a)  What ancient civilisations considered pugilism essential to youth education?        [1]

b)  Who had been considering it their public duty to attend every prize fight?        [1]

c)  Give one piece of evidence to show the physical effect that boxing has on the body.                                                                                                                                 [1]

1 4       “The writer presents boxing as a noble and disciplined pursuit.”

To what extent do you agree with this view?

You should comment on:

• what is said
• how it is said                                                                                                            [10]

You must refer to the text to support your comments.

To answer the following questions you must use both texts.

1 5       Using information from both texts, explain briefly how the writers show that sport can build character.                                                                                                   [4]

1 6       Both of these texts are about values and virtues associated with sport.

Compare:

• the impressions the writers create of sporting behaviour
• how the writers create these impressions                                                  [10]

You must use the text to support your comments and make it clear which text you are referring to.

SECTION B: 40 marks

Answer Question 2 1 and Question 2 2 .

In this section you will be assessed for the quality of your writing skills.

For each question, 12 marks are awarded for communication and organisation; 8 marks are awarded for vocabulary, sentence structure, punctuation and spelling.

Think about the purpose and audience for your writing.

You should aim to write about 300–400 words for each task.

2 1       A school/college magazine is publishing a series of articles called, ‘Winning Isn’t The Whole Game’ in which people write about life’s small victories, such as turning up, supporting a friend or owning a mistake. You decide to write an article on the topic for the magazine.

Write your article.                                                                                                     [20]

2 2       A letter has appeared in a local newspaper suggesting that full-contact sports should be compulsory in PE.

Write a letter to the local newspaper giving your views on this suggestion.         [20]

Resource Material

This extract is adapted from a mid-Victorian handbook that explains cricket’s history, skills and character.

The Cricket Field

The game of cricket, philosophically considered, is a standing panegyric on the English character: none but an orderly and sensible race of people would so amuse themselves. It calls into requisition all the cardinal virtues, some moralist would say. As with the Grecian games of old, the player must be sober and temperate. Patience, fortitude, and self-denial, the various bumps of order, obedience, and good-humour, with an unruffled temper, are indispensable.

For intellectual virtues we want judgment, decision, and the organ of concentrativeness — every faculty in the free use of all its limbs — and every idea in constant air and exercise. Poor, rickety, and stunted wits will never serve: the widest shoulders are of little use without a head upon them: the cricketer wants wits down to his fingers’ ends.

This extract is adapted from an essay published in an magazine named “Athletics And Manly Sport”.

Ethics and Evolution of Boxing

HAS BOXING A REAL VALUE?

‘Both among the Greeks and Romans,’ says an eminent authority, ‘the practice of pugilism was considered essential to the education of their youth, from its manifest utility in strengthening the body, dissipating all fear, and infusing a manly courage into the system.’

The Greeks and Romans kept boxing in its proper relation to every-day life; not as a brutal exhibition of skill or strength, but as a healthy exercise to invigorate the body, expand the chest, strengthen and quicken the muscles, and render mind and body free, supple, strong, and confident.

‘There is nothing that interests me like good boxing,’ said Sir Robert Peel. ‘It asks more steadiness, self-control, ay, and manly courage, than any other exercise. You must take as well as give — eye to eye, toe to toe, and arm to arm.’

Mr. Evelyn Denison, describing an interview with Lord Althorp, says: ‘Lord Althorp had seriously been considering whether it was not a duty that he owed to the public to go and attend every prize fight which took place, and thus to encourage the noble science to the extent of his power.’