Question 1: list four things

Question 1 asks you to read a few lines near the start of the source and list four things about a person, place or object.

• AO1: finding information that is clearly there (explicit) or clearly suggested (implicit).
• 4 marks: one for each correct point.
• About 5 minutes.

There are no levels: each true point from the right lines gets a mark.

1. Draw a box around the lines the question names. Only use those lines.
2. Check what you're looking for: things about the engine, not the woman.
3. Write four short, separate statements. You can quote or put them in your own words.
4. Don't analyse or explain. Just list.

This extract is the opening of a short story by D.H. Lawrence, published in 1911.

The small locomotive engine, Number 4, came clanking, stumbling down

from Selston with seven full waggons. It appeared round the corner with

loud threats of speed, but the colt that it startled from among the

gorse, which still flickered indistinctly in the raw afternoon,

5outdistanced it at a canter. A woman, walking up the railway line to

Underwood, drew back into the hedge, held her basket aside, and watched

the footplate of the engine advancing. The trucks thumped heavily past,

one by one, with slow inevitable movement, as she stood insignificantly

trapped between the jolting black waggons and the hedge; then they

10curved away towards the coppice where the withered oak leaves dropped

noiselessly, while the birds, pulling at the scarlet hips beside the

track, made off into the dusk that had already crept into the spinney.

In the open, the smoke from the engine sank and cleaved to the rough

grass. The fields were dreary and forsaken, and in the marshy strip

15that led to the whimsey, a reedy pit-pond, the fowls had already

abandoned their run among the alders, to roost in the tarred

fowl-house. The pit-bank loomed up beyond the pond, flames like red

sores licking its ashy sides, in the afternoon’s stagnant light. Just

beyond rose the tapering chimneys and the clumsy black headstocks of

20Brinsley Colliery. The two wheels were spinning fast up against the

sky, and the winding-engine rapped out its little spasms. The miners

were being turned up.

Read again the first part of the source, lines 1 to 5. List four things about the engine from this part of the source.

1. It is small.
2. It is called Number 4.
3. It is pulling seven full waggons.
4. It is slower than the colt, which outruns it.