[Date]
ENG2611 Assignment
2 2024 (858764) - 25
June 2024
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
, ENG2611 Assignment 2 2024 (858764) - 25 June 2024
Text A
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and
Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were
sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. They were
sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten
miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post
office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper
called Mrs. Macready and three servants. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret
and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very
old man with shaggy white hair, which grew over most of his face as well as on
his head, and they liked him almost at once; but on the first evening when he
came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who
was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next
youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his
nose to hide it. As soon as they had said good night to the Professor and gone
upstairs on the first night, the boys came into the girls’ room and they all
talked it over. 3
1. Would you consider this extract to be an example of children’s literature?
Why? (2 marks)
2. Summarise the plot of this extract in one sentence. (2 marks)
3. We could state that the author has developed one character more than the
others. Identify this character and explain why this statement is true. (4
marks)
4. Do you think that the extract would be relevant to Foundation/Intermediate
Phase EFAL readers? In your response, you should consider the theme of the
extract, and you should explain which aspects of the extract you think would
be relevant to Foundation/Intermediate Phase EFAL readers and which
aspects you think might be less relevant to them. (4 marks)
5. Identify and explain 4 stereotypes found in this extract. (8 marks) 6. Write a
short paragraph of between 100-150 words in which you explain five changes
that you would make to this extract to make it more relevant to a South
ENG2611 Assignment
2 2024 (858764) - 25
June 2024
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
, ENG2611 Assignment 2 2024 (858764) - 25 June 2024
Text A
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and
Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were
sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. They were
sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten
miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post
office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper
called Mrs. Macready and three servants. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret
and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very
old man with shaggy white hair, which grew over most of his face as well as on
his head, and they liked him almost at once; but on the first evening when he
came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who
was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next
youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his
nose to hide it. As soon as they had said good night to the Professor and gone
upstairs on the first night, the boys came into the girls’ room and they all
talked it over. 3
1. Would you consider this extract to be an example of children’s literature?
Why? (2 marks)
2. Summarise the plot of this extract in one sentence. (2 marks)
3. We could state that the author has developed one character more than the
others. Identify this character and explain why this statement is true. (4
marks)
4. Do you think that the extract would be relevant to Foundation/Intermediate
Phase EFAL readers? In your response, you should consider the theme of the
extract, and you should explain which aspects of the extract you think would
be relevant to Foundation/Intermediate Phase EFAL readers and which
aspects you think might be less relevant to them. (4 marks)
5. Identify and explain 4 stereotypes found in this extract. (8 marks) 6. Write a
short paragraph of between 100-150 words in which you explain five changes
that you would make to this extract to make it more relevant to a South
