PRACTICE 2 – Look in detail at this extract (lines 8 to 12) from the Practice Paper.:
The chief would instruct the younger men to set up shelters for these two old women each time the band arrived at a new campsite, and to provide them with wood and water. The younger women pulled the two elder women’s possessions from one camp to the next and, in turn, the old women tanned[1] animal skins for those who helped them. The arrangement worked well.
tanned: convert into leather
How does the writer use language here to describe how the tribe look after the two old women?
You could include the writer’s choice of:
. words and phrases
. language features and techniques
. sentence forms.