LINK QUESTIONS Link Function Questions Showing that you

LINK QUESTIONS Link Function Questions Showing that you understand how a writer has made their argument flow from one idea to another. Being able to identify how the highlighted sentence performs a linking function.

HOW TO ANSWER: FORMULA QUOTE the word or words in the link sentence which refer to the previous paragraph/topic. EXPLAIN IN YOUR OWN WORDS what topic was. QUOTE the word or words referring to the new paragraph/topic. EXPLAIN IN YOUR OWN WORDS what the new topic is.

LINK QUESTION EXAMPLES

EXAMPLES 1. She was of average height with glossy hair, bright blue eyes and a winning smile. As well as her beauty I also admired her intelligence. She was the smartest girl in the class. 2. The passengers had to change aircraft due to their plane needing maintenance work. However, some of them were not satisfied. They accused the company of providing poor service.

EXAMPLES 1. She was of average height with glossy hair, bright blue eyes and a winning smile. As well as her beauty I also admired her intelligence. She was the smartest girl in the class. • “As well as her beauty” links back to information that comes before the link statement. The writer was listing her physically attractive features – hair, eyes and smile. • “Her intelligence” links forwards to the information that comes after the link statement, when he calls her the ‘smartest’.

EXAMPLES 2. The passengers had to change aircraft due to their plane needing maintenance work. However, some of them were not satisfied. They accused the company of providing poor service. • “HOWEVER” Is a signpost word, indicating that the passage is changing direction in it’s content. It tells us that we are moving away from information about the plane. • “some of them were not satisfied” introduces the idea of what is coming next – the idea that they passengers are the focus of the next part of the paragraph.

3. He worked hard when he was young, always putting in long hours. After so many backbreaking years he wanted to take it easy. In his old age he spent most of his time fishing. 4. When the sun sank down it was a luxury to sit in the perfumed air and forget that there was any world but these enchanted islands. It was such ecstasy to dream until reality gave you a bite. A scorpion bite. Then the first duty was to get up out of the grass and kill the scorpion; and the next to bathe bitten place with alcohol and the next to resolve to keep out of the grass in the future.

5. When more coal was needed, men dug tunnels into the earth from the quarries. This was dangerous work, because the earth was always falling into the tunnel. Later they dug deeper and this brought greater difficulties and greater danger. Water seeped into the bottom of the pits, poisonous and explosive gases collected, and taking the coal to the surface was hard work. Slowly the dangers were overcome. Miners became more skilful at supporting the roofs of the tunnels, and engineers began to use steam engines to pump the water out. They lit fires at the bottom of pit shafts to drive out the foul air; and Sir Humphrey Davy invented a lamp which would not set fire to explosive gases.