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English Model Paper

Non-fiction September 2024

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CAMBRIDGE
International Education

Cambridge International School (IN -569)

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Section A: Reading
Spend around 30 minutes on this section.
Read this article., then answer questions 1-8.

Let's Chat!
When 18-year-old Amit visited his grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousins in Pakistan
during his university holiday, he was troubled that despite living as part of an
extended family, his grandparents were still eating and watching TV alone every
evening in their living room.
5
Returning to his home in the UK, he pondered on it, wondering what life was like for
elderly people living in his home country where the generations tend to live
separately, often miles apart from their relatives, and where elderly people often live
in residential care
homes.
After undertaking some research, Amit discovered that most of the wellness initiativeg;
10 available to young people, such as counselling and telephone helplines, were not
available to the elderly. Yet there are 12 million elderly citizens in the UK, according
to census data, and those aged 85 and older account for over 5 per cent of
the
country's population. To Amit there seemed to be agap in provision for the well-being
of the UK's elderly citizens.
15 In 2019,Amit founded Let's Chat!, a non-profit
organisation that allows young people
to visit elderly people living on their own or in care
homes. The
developing a remote model to provide even more opportunitiesorganisation
is now
for senior citizens
across the country tostay sociallyconnected. Elderly citizens - or
can complete an online form, and they will receive a their loved ones -
20 volunteer- or 'chatter'- either by phone or weekly call from a young
video call.
We don't want elderly people to feel too proud to get
or need any sort of help, it doesn't mean you can't involved; if you are calling us,
cope,' Amit told us. If you're
feeling isolated or just want a chat, call us! All of our
want to talk back. We all need a good chat volunteers are social people who
sometimes - so sign up!
25 Loneliness for elderly people in long-term care is a
very real concern - Amit
remembers a time when he chatted with an 89-year-old woman who hadn't had a
visitor for 15 years while living in a care home.
over the age of Approximately 50 per cent of people
80 feel lonely, a 2019 report from Age UK found.
Elderly people who are socially
isolated are more at risk of not being active and not eating well, the
30 They're also more likely to be report suggests
hospitalised.
For those who want to help, Let's Chat! is recruiting. Visit
can get involved and improve the quality of the lives of their website to see how you
elderly people.
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means by the phrase

1 Explain, using your own words, what the writer
'extended family' in paragraph 1.
ceihist

differ in the UK compared to

2 According to paragraph 2, how does family life
Pakistan?
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the provision of
3 What evidence is offered in paragraph 3 to support
wellness services for elderly people?
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Section B: Writing
section.
around 30 minutes on this
Spend Chat!.
about a volunteer for Let's
Write a Narrative story
1
You should consider:
involved in volunteering
" why you
want to get
experiences make yousuitable
qualities and
what personal personally from
volunteering. ,
would gain
" what you
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