How has social media changed the way young people communicate, learn and see themselves? A Cambridge 0500-style passage with inference, summary and language analysis questions.
A runner overcomes a medical prognosis to compete. A passage on determination, adaptation and what achievement really feels like. Directed writing: article for a sports magazine.
Medicine excels at treating the body as a machine but still struggles with the parts it cannot scan. A passage on mental health, NHS provision and what it means to treat a person. Directed writing: letter to an editor.
A traveller stands in front of a temple surrounded by tourists and feels nothing. A passage on the gap between guidebook tourism and genuine discovery. Directed writing: personal narrative for a travel magazine.
What is education really for? A passage exploring the deepest purpose of learning, the best kind of teachers and a geography exercise that teaches more than geography. Directed writing: speech to teachers.
Wolves return to Scotland for the first time in 270 years. A balanced passage on ecological science, farmer concerns and what humans owe to the landscapes they have damaged. Directed writing: letter to a newspaper editor.
A family recipe that was never written down, passed across three countries and six kitchens. A passage on food as cultural memory, belonging and identity. Directed writing: personal essay.
London at 3am, tower blocks designed with optimism that became symbols of failure, and the paradox of city loneliness. A passage on what cities give and what they take. Directed writing: formal report for a city council.
An eight-month NHS waiting list, the invisible suffering of young people in classrooms, and the question of whether we care enough to build the systems that would actually reach them. Directed writing: charity booklet.
Half the world's languages will be gone by 2100. A passage on language death, the Yagua people of Peru, the global spread of English and what is permanently lost when the last speaker dies. Directed writing: opinion piece.
The pale blue dot photograph, the history of being wrong in instructive ways, and why the willingness to be falsified makes science more honest than certainty. Directed writing: magazine article.