CSEC English (Paper 3 Practice)

 PAPER 3 

To score well in Paper 3, students should:

Be able to find the main idea

Understand the difference between verbal and non-verbal presentations

Understand literary techniques

Understand your audience

**Understanding Audience: 

                    This is about the people you plan to speak to- their race, age, social background, etc.

Topic: Homosexuality in the Caribbean

Text 1: Boom Bye Bye (Buju Banton)

[Intro]

World is in trouble anytime Buju Banton come
Batty bwoy get up and run
Ah gunshot me head back
Hear wha I tell 'em now crew

[Chorus]
It's like boom bye bye inna batty bwoy head
Rude bwoy nah promote no nasty man, dem haffi dead
Boom bye bye inna batty bwoy head
Rude bwoy nah promote no nasty man, dem haffi dead

[Verse 1]
Two man hitch up on and hug up on and ah lay dung inna bed
Hug up one another and ah feel up leg
Send fi di Matic or di Uzi instead
Shoot dem now come mek we shot dem (dead/head)
Don't waan Jackie gi dem Paul instead
Dem don't waan di sweetness between di leg
Gal bend dung backway and accept di peg
And if it really hot yu know she still nah go fled
Ah some man still no waan di panty raid
Pure batty business dem love [instead]

[Verse 2]

Woman is di greatest thing God ever put pon di land

Buju lovin' unno from head down to foot bottom

But some man ah turn it wrong, where dem get that from?

Peter is not for Janet, Peter is for John

Suzette is not for Paul, Suzette is for Ann

Where the bumbaclaat dem get dat from?

Here come the deejay name Buju Banton

Come fi straighten yuh talk (Boom b-boom boom)

Text 2: Evangelical Christians ‘disgusted’ with LGBT moves

(BarbadosToday.com)

“Barbados cannot sustain what we are seeing across the developed countries and in this case we are seeing that there is an effort to impose the homosexual agenda from those who stand behind this movement and we are not dealing with just persons who have a preference of lifestyle, but we are seeing a vibrant and aggressive movement that will unravel the structure of the country, that will definitely impact the morals of the country and will lead us into areas that we cannot sustain,” he added.

But as church members enjoyed their evening of anti-gay activism, an opposition protestor began walking through the crowd.

“Preach love, not hate!” He shouted while carrying a placard with a similar message.

The emotional protester, a gay man, told Barbados TODAY: “I have been abused and I have been targeted all because of who I am….This [Christian rally] is a movement to create more and more hate.

I have been targeted on numerous occasions… I have been physically, verbally and emotionally attacked. You all do not know the pain of being a homosexual and how targeted you are,” he said.

**Can you think of any other examples in media which speak of the homosexuality debate in the Caribbean?

Questions:

1. Outline the main issue addressed in EACH of the two texts. (6 marks)

2. For any ONE of the texts given assess the appropriateness of that medium for the purpose of communicating the specific issue. (3 marks)

3. For any TWO of the texts given, choose ONE language technique used in EACH and explain its effectiveness. 

 (Language techniques: analogies, repetition, hyperbole, similes, metaphors)

4. State THREE features that distinguish an oral presentation from a written presentation. (6 marks)

5. You have been asked to make an oral presentation on ONE of the issues identified in 1

(a) List THREE points you would discuss in the oral presentation. (3 marks)

6. Identify THREE features of the group to which the presentation would be made and

THREE techniques that you would use to hold the attention of the group. (6 marks)

7.