Trinidad and Tobago National Learning Assessment 2023 English Language Arts Paper 3 PDF

# Trinidad and Tobago National Learning Assessment 2023 ## English Language Arts ### Paper 3 #### Booklet A ### Section 1: Drama Instructions: Read the following extract and answer all the questions that follow. **Scene:** A fisherman's cottage. Bright curtains at windows. Here and there in co...

# Trinidad and Tobago National Learning Assessment 2023 ## English Language Arts ### Paper 3 #### Booklet A ### Section 1: Drama Instructions: Read the following extract and answer all the questions that follow. **Scene:** A fisherman's cottage. Bright curtains at windows. Here and there in corners of the room, odds and ends of fisherman's gear: a fish pot, a small cast net, and a rod or two. On the wall hangs a picture depicting a fishing scene. There is a rough table in the centre of the room at which sits a young man, his head bent deep in thought. In front of him is a bowl of soup. His right hand holds a spoon. Enter a young woman, his wife. She is barefoot and carries a bucket of water on her head. She wears a plain cotton dress, and her head is tied with a gay kerchief. **FEDORA:** Eh eh, Boysie, how you doh´eating you dinner? A´-fus de pease soup nice, I put coconut in it and nice dumplings. (**BOYSIE** is very preoccupied and ignores her.) Boysie, what do you, you feeling sick? De Food nice oui, eat it nuh. **BOYSIE:** Fedora gal, leave me alone nuh. All you woman could talk oui! A man cant' get a chance to study he business. Leave me in peace. I is a worry-up man tonight. **FEDORA:** Bon Dieu! What worry you have Boysie? Ent you get your ten pound sue-sue money yesterday, and you decide you going take it and buy a boat for you to go and fish? What cause you to worry-up? **BOYSIE:** Nuh, all you woman never does see why man does have studyation. All you want it's for me to take me sue-sue money and buy a boat so I could catch big fish? It looked as if you tired eating small jacks and ca-ca barwee. Is slice fish you want? **FEDORA:** Eh, eh, Boysie, how could you tell me dis word? Ent is you dat say small jacks doh' get no profit and you want to buy a boat so you could catch big fish? I even tell you call de boat “Just in Time”. **BOYSIE:** Shut up you mouth gal, you talking sut, "Just in Time” is any name to call a boat? **FEDORA:** But Boysie, how you bawling in me head so? How do you change-up and rough so tonight? **BOYSIE:** I must change-up and I must rough. When a man got worrynation he can't talk. **FEDORA:** (anxiously): Well tell me nuh, I getting worry-up meself oui. You trouble is my trouble too, so tell me what do you nuh? **BOYSIE:** Fedora, you will never leave me in peace, so I might as well speak my mind, I is expecting a man here tonight. He come out in Trinidad for de races. He is a man what could read cards and see far. He meat me last night and he tell me it have plenty money bury in my land under the silk cotton tree. **FEDORA:** Well, if it have money dere why you doh dig it? You is dat what make you cant' eat you dinner. **BOYSIE:** Shut up and listen to me. You does talk too much. Dis Man tell me dat thousands of pounds of gold bury in an iron chest under de silk cotton tree, but is not so easy to dig it. (He gets up, thrusts hands into trousers pockets and begins to pace up and down.) What causing me to worry-up so much is dis...De man name is Manny, and he say dat unless money is burn on the spot where de money bury, He wouldn't able to dig it. He say de spirit from de other world what give himde vision want a sacrifice of twenty bank-note to burn wid other powder from de doctor-shop on de spot where de money bury. He tell me to put up ten bank-note and he going put up ten heself, and when de money is dig I could give he a share. **FEDORA:** (scornfully): Eh heh! I did thought so. He want for to make a fool on you Boysie. Doh study him. **BOYSIE:** (banging on the table): Let my voice be the loudest in dis house! I is the one what is concern in dis serious business, so shut up and listen. Dis is a good business gal. I born wid a gold spoon in my mouth. If we get dat money de world belongs to we. Dat time I doh' studying if I is fisherman again. I building a big wall-house, and I buying a new car. See me at the wheel taking de corners... *His face lights up and he nods gaily at FEDORA as he imitates all the actions and a various poses that he will strike.* Gal, on an evening when I put up me car in de garage and I sit down wid me radio playing sweet music and my cigarette...Fedora, dat is life oui, dat is what I like! **FEDORA:** (angrily): Boysie, show-off is a chupid thing. You mean you so ignorant you going let Manny pocket you ten bank-note? *pauses, wipes tears from eyes* for chupidness? You could bawl in my head as you want, but I going talk my mind. Since last month I begging you for a new shoes, but you find it hard to give me, now you going take you cash money and give dis Manny to dig money for you. When he tief all you money I going laugh at you. **BOYSIE:** (shouting angrily and shaking fist at FEDORA): Woman is a nation what is too forward and fast! De money is mine, Fedora, I could spend it as I please and when I please! You could vex and swell-up as a crapaud and burst for all I care. When dis money is dig, you is de first who going want plastic shoes and a bag to wear over you shoulder. All you woman is a people who like too much clothes and things. De money is mine, Fedora. Is me what work in the sea in rain, thunder and lightning to save it. I going use it when I want and how I want! **FEDORA:** (sobbing pathetically): Boysie, I sorry I ever married to you. Trinidad mens does have trick to pass false note. Dey does gather papers what does come out on vermouth bottle and pass dem as good bank-notes after dark when light bad. I warning you Boysie, take care is not vermouth papers dis man going burn and he going pocket you good bank-notes. **BOYSIE:** Shut up gal! *He bangs hand on table and walks over to her threateningly).* _Adapted from Just In Time by Wilfred Redhead_ *** **1. (a) What is the setting of the scene presented above? (2 marks)** ** (b) Describe briefly what takes place in the scene. (3 marks)** **2. (a) What is the relationship between Fedora and Boysie. (1 mark)** **(b) Describe the relationship between Fedora and Boysie. (2 marks)** **(c) Give one example from the extract to support your answer above. (1 mark)** **3. (a) Boysie´s mood changes during the extract. What was the change? (2 marks)** **(b) Using evidence from the extract, give one reason for the mood change you identified. (1 mark)** **4. (a) Give two character traits revealed about Boysie during the scene. (2 marks)** **(b) From the extract, select evidence for each character trait you identified. (2 marks)** **5. Why would Fedora respond to Boysie in a scornful manner (lines 36 – 37)? (1 mark)** **6. (a) What is a possible reason for Fedora’s wanting to name the boat “Just in Time”? (1 mark)** **(b) What would the purchase of a new boat able to achieve? (2 marks)** **(Total 20 marks)** *** ### Section 2: Poetry Instructions: Read the following poem and answer all the questions that follow. ### A Flower There’s a flower within every one of us In every you and me out there. Some of us allow it to blossom and some allow it to die Some wait for it to grow as it shows from outside And most of us just allow it to be free as it springs out into a tree The petals are like the rainbow of our emotions And the seed is shown by our actions. The beauty of a flower is defined by the ingredients you choose to hold within. A love that can sparkle beyond the beauty of a wind It makes us wonder, “Why am I here?” Why was I planted on this earth and for what reason am I still alive? We live in a world and see so many being chopped down or uprooted From a place we used to call mine, now being taken over by mankind What does your reflection reflect to others around you? The beauty of you or does it remind you of someone you once know Your friend or family, your past or misery? Does this flower live in you? Would you let thorns or weeds kill your flower? I know some of us wonder, “How can I start over?” or “How can I move from here?” After being stuck in a quicksand or in a deep hole A flower can only grow if you take care of it If you give it sunlight, water and put it in good soil Then let the sunlight be your knowledge Let water be your faith and let your soil be your living the word. _Nickie Vasquez_ *** **1. Describe briefly, what the poem is about. (2 marks)** **2. (a) Identify the following figures of speech evident in the poem. (2 marks)** **(i) 'the petals are like the rainbow of our emotions' (line 6)** **(ii) ‘and the seed is shown by our actions' (line 7)** **(b) Explain the meaning of each figure of speech. (4 marks)** **(i) Explanation of ‘the petals are like the rainbow of our emotions' (line 6)** **(ii) Explanation of ‘and the seed is shown by our actions' (line 7)** **3. Give two (2) reasons why the poet is asking so many questions? (2 marks)** **Reason 1** **Reason 2** **4. ( a ) Identify the sense to which the poem mostly appeals. (1 mark)** **(b) Support your answer with evidence from the poem. (2 marks)** **5. According to the poet, what two (2) ways can a person grow? (2 marks)** **6. What evidence in the poem explains the symbolism of 'a flower'? (2 marks)** **7. What mood is evoked in the poem? Support your answer with evidence from the poem. (3 marks)** **(Total 20 marks)** *** ### Section 3: Prose Instructions: Read the following passage and answer all the questions that follow. ### The Old Man and the Sea He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days, a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish, the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. Everything about him was old, except his eyes and if they were the same colour as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. "Santiago," the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was hauled up, "I could go with you again. We´ve made some money." The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him. "No," the old man said. "You´re with a lucky boat. Stay with them." "But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught a big one every day for three weeks." "I know you did not leave me because you doubted" “It was Papa made me leave. I am a boy and I must obey him.” “I know,” the old man said. “It is quite normal.” “He hasn’t much faith.” “No,” the old man said. “But we have. Haven't we?” "Yes," the boy said. "Can I offer you a beer on the Terrace and then we’ll take the stuff home?" “Why not?” The old man said. “Between fishermen.” They sat on the Terrace and many of the fishermen made fun of the old man and he was not angry. Others, of the older fishermen, looked at him and were sad. But they did not show it and they spoke politely about the current and the depths they had drifted their lines at and the steady good weather and of what they had seen. The successful fishermen of that day were already in and had butchered their marlin out and carried them laid full length across two planks, with two men staggering at the end of each plank, to the fish house where they waited for the ice truck to carry them to the market in Havana. _Adapted from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway_ *** **1. What is the name of the old man? (1 mark)** **2. Where do you think this story is set? Quote one example from the passage to support your answer. (2 marks)** **Setting: ** **Example:** **3. Why is the boy sad to see the old man every day? (2 marks)** **4. (a) What does the word “salao” (line 4) mean? (1 mark)** **(b) Show how this word is connected to the old man in the passage. (2 marks)** **5. Give two examples of physical description of the old man in paragraph 2. (2 marks)** **Example 1:** **Example 2:** **6. Describe the relationship between the old man and the boy. (3 marks)** **7. “The sail was patched with flour sacks and furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat” (lines 7-8). (3 marks)** **Identify the literary device used in the above quote and explain the effectiveness of its use.** **Literary device:** **Effectiveness:** **8. The boy wants to go back out to fish with the old man. What does he say to him to convince him that he should? (2 marks)** **9. How do you feel about the way the other fishermen treat the old man in the final paragraph? (2 marks)** **(Total 20 marks)** **END OF TEST**