Anthology: Explorers or just boys messing around

Question 1

What are the themes of this passage?

Answer 1

• Maturity
• Responsibility to society
• Taking risks and challenging your potential

Question 2

How is maturity themed during this passage?

Answer 2

Reflects ludicrousity;
Immature decision to ride ‘trusty’ helicopter
Title: ‘Boys messing about’

Question 3

How is responsibility to society mentioned in this passage?

Answer 3

• Negative reaction by society in all cases of failures

- Tax payers pick up the bill, connects with the reader and turns reader against Brookes.

Question 4

How is taking risks and challenging your potential mention in this passage?

Answer 4

• Experienced explorers: ‘taken expeditions to 70 countries in 15 years’
• ‘Pushing it to the maximum’
• This is another side of the story but which is not picked on in the article

Question 5

What kind of tone is the passage set in?

Answer 5

-Satirical: Not the first time they ‘ hit the headlines for the wrong reasons’
-sarcastic:
Mrs Vestey (Brookes’ wife) ‘boys messing about’, ‘bottoms kicked’ (is a reference to their maturity, comparing them to school boys)

Question 6

What is the structure of the passage?

Answer 6

• Newspaper article – editorial (expressive of authors opinion)
• Introduction starts with past ‘farce’ instead of the usual back ground facts regarding the commotion

Question 7

What statistics have been mentioned?

Answer 7

’16,000 mile trip took three months’
Cost the tax payers ‘tens of thousands of pounds’
‘HMS endurance’ came to aid from 180 miles away

Question 8

What words are used in the passage to make the men sound like they are helpless and pointless?

Answer 8

• plucked
• plunged
• Breitling emergency watch, a wedding present.

Question 9

What words are used to make then men sound like they are stupid?

Answer 9

farce
plunged
tragedy
hostile 
trusty helicopter

Question 10

How does the author make the men sound stupid?

Answer 10

Mr Smith, also from London, ‘claims’ to have been flying since the age of five.
The tax payer will pick up the bill.
I’m surprised they used an R44.

Question 11

What is the passage written in?

Answer 11

narrative, inform

Question 12

What is the aim of the passage?

Answer 12

to inform the reader about this incident and possible prove that these men are not correct in what they have done.

Question 13

Who is the the passage aimed at?

Answer 13

All ages and genders, it is informative

Question 14

How is the story structure in the ways opinion is shown?

Answer 14

Opinion, Story, Opinion, Story , Good history and lastly Bad History.

Question 15

How does the author grab the attention of the reader?

Answer 15

‘The taxpayer will pick up the bill’.

Question 16

mocking language?

Answer 16

farce

Question 17

Paragraphing?

Answer 17

4,5,6, opinion

Question 18

wife?

Answer 18

Presented like a mother

Question 19

Expert?

Answer 19

helicopter systems analysis.

Question 20

sympath?

Answer 20

silver back gorilla in Congo

Question 21

simple sentences?

Answer 21

both men were experienced adventures

Question 22

undermining?

Answer 22

nothing short of a miracle

Question 23

intro:

Answer 23

Journalism
aimed at the readers of the popular newspaper ‘The Guardian’. It purpose to inform people and pursude readers to dislike the mean mentioned in the text using emotive language.
The writer creates a dislike for the men and mocks them for the entertainment of the reader.

Question 24

connectives of time?

Answer 24

9 hour rescue

Question 25

Model verbs?

Answer 25

Absence because of opinion.

Question 26

Irony?

Answer 26

trusty helicopter.

Question 27

encouraged to be disliked?

Answer 27

cost taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds.

Question 28

childish?

Answer 28

plucked from the water

they will probably have there bottoms kicked