Task 1
Short answer
Answer both task 1A and 1B.
1A
In the box below you will find the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) promotional text.
Briefly comment on and explain the effect of some of the language features and/or literary devices the NRDC uses to recruit new supporters. Use examples from the text in your answer.
1B
Briefly comment on what the graph below says about wealth distribution and CO2 emissions and briefly comment on some of the reasons behind this.
Task 2
Long answer
Answer either task A, B, C, or D.
2A
Read the material in Appendix 1.
Referring to the material in the appendix and the graph in task 1b, discuss some of the effects of global consumption trends.
2B
Read the text in the box below from the interview “I’m More Than An ‘Other’” with Meghan Markle where she speaks about her mixed-heritage background.
Using this text and other material you have studied, discuss the challenges of identity in a multicultural society in the English-speaking world.
2C
Referring to some of the points in the list below, discuss some of the challenges students could expect when studying in an English-speaking country.
2D
Referring to two English-language literary texts and/or films that you have studied that are set in multicultural societies, analyse and discuss what both of these tell us about what it is like to live in a multicultural society. Use examples from the texts and/or films in your answer.
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