Explorers or Boys Messing About?

Question 1

Q4 Plan

Answer 1

P1: childish characters, comedy
P2: serious implications & negative

Question 2

‘Explorers or Boys Messing About?’

Answer 2

‘explorers’ vs ‘boys’ - contrast professional vs stupid, wrong, careless
? - rhetorical question - persuasive device, mocking

Question 3

TAP

Answer 3

T: subjective newspaper article
A: national & older people/taxpayers
P: to inform & persuade
biased tone

Question 4

P1:
‘the drama began’

Answer 4

‘drama’ - attention seeking

Question 5

‘also known as Q’

Answer 5

‘Q’ - James Bond character - self inflated own importance, playing a part for attention
mentioned to show they are foolish - ironic bc Q is skilful with technology

Question 6

‘emergency people’

Answer 6

vague, childish perception, juvenility, infantilise - naïve & stupid

Question 7

‘despite their experience’

Answer 7

‘despite’ - negative, incapability
remind reader their experience yet they are still reckless
links to start

Question 8

‘ironically, one of the aims…demonstrate how good relations between the east and the west had become.’

Answer 8

‘ironically’ - comical bc so absurd & idiotic, dismissive
‘aim’ - stupid, not accomplished the aim
failure because opposite of reality

Question 9

‘they’ll probably have their bottoms kicked and be sent home the long way’

Answer 9

childish punishment - foolish, immature
‘kicked’, ‘sent’ - passive verbs, no control or self-awareness, immaturity

Question 10

‘the rescue involved the Royal Navy, the RAF and British coastguards.’

Answer 10

tricolon - extent/scale of rescue
military - severity & seriousness, danger

Question 11

‘confusion about what exactly the men were trying to achieve.’

Answer 11

‘confusion’ - vague
‘trying to achieve’ - lack of purpose, disapproving

Question 12

‘ditched helicopter’, ‘signals from the aircraft were deciphered’, ‘surveying’, ‘dispatched’

Answer 12

‘ditched’ & ‘deciphered’ - words of action & power, contrast reckless words

Question 13

‘nothing short of a miracle that they had survived’

Answer 13

‘miracle’ - blessing, highly unlikely to survive - foolishness nearly caused death, actual risk

Question 14

‘both men are experienced adventurers.’

Answer 14

should have known better
not said at start - readers first believe they are stupid
‘experienced’ - expected to have good judgement, contrast outcome

Question 15

‘taxpayer would pick up the bill’

Answer 15

public must pay for rescue - unfair
‘taxpayer’ - widespread consequence
‘bill’ - financial impact

Question 16

structure

Answer 16

several paragraphs about previous adventures but no sense of admiration
paragraph on heroic rescue - huge effort contrast stupidity of the men
emotive language - biased, one-sided perspective of disapproval & negativity, humiliation