Try this at home:Some questions from Higher English

1. “Yet the outside world had its continuing marvels . . . ” Write a personal essay on what you consider to be the marvels of today’s world.

2. “Memory is a ghost train too.” Write a feature article for a newspaper or magazine on the role played by memory and the past in our lives.

3. Write a short story inspired by the phrase, “an inferior rock band howling for fame”.

4. “Another book which I have read with enormous interest . . . ” Write a speech about the importance of literature in people’s lives.

5. Write a light-hearted and entertaining article, intended for publication in a magazine aimed at young people, in response to the phrase, “all the time in the world”.