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QUESTION 4: UNDERSTANDING OTHER ASPECTS OF THE MEDIA
Study TEXT E and TEXT F and answer the set questions.
TEXT E: CARTOON
QUESTIONS: TEXT E
4.1 Refer to FRAMES 1 and 2.
How does the dialogue reflect the two characters’ attitudes toward their
customers? (2)
4.2 Refer to FRAMES 3 and 4.
Comment on the effectiveness of ONE technique used by the cartoonist. (2)
4.3 Rewrite, ‘You’ve got to stop condescending to the customers’ (FRAME 1) so
that it is grammatically correct. (1)
AND
TEXT F: CARTOON
4.4 Account for the change in Thandi’s facial expression from FRAME 2 to
FRAME 3. (2)
4.5 Discuss how humour is created in the cartoon as a whole. (2)
4.6 Various options are provided as possible answers to the question below.
Choose the answer and write only the letter (AD) next to the question
number (4.6).
The teacher’s instruction in FRAME 1, written in indirect speech, is:
A The teacher told Thandi to hold your homework up to the camera so that
she could see it.
B The teacher told Thandi that she should hold her homework up to the
camera so that she can see it.
C The teacher told Thandi to hold her homework up to the camera so that
she could see it.
D The teacher told Thandi that she had held her homework up to the
camera so that she could see it. (1)
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