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    Natalie, a Year 9 student, feels nervous when she notices three tough-looking girls watching her while she is out with her boyfriend and friends in East London. As the girls approach her, Natalie's heart races and her palms sweat from fear, expecting trouble. However, the girls just ask Natalie some questions about where she goes to school and what she is doing there. They then hand her a flyer for a club, asking if she likes rap music. Natalie realizes she misread the situation and the girls just wanted to see if she was also an Eastender who enjoyed clubbing. She begins to wonder if she has misjudged others in the past.

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    Natalie, a Year 9 student, feels nervous when she notices three tough-looking girls watching her while she is out with her boyfriend and friends in East London. As the girls approach her, Natalie's heart races and her palms sweat from fear, expecting trouble. However, the girls just ask Natalie some questions about where she goes to school and what she is doing there. They then hand her a flyer for a club, asking if she likes rap music. Natalie realizes she misread the situation and the girls just wanted to see if she was also an Eastender who enjoyed clubbing. She begins to wonder if she has misjudged others in the past.

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    Natalie, a Year 9 student, feels nervous when she notices three tough-looking girls watching her while she is out with her boyfriend and friends in East London. As the girls approach her, Natalie's heart races and her palms sweat from fear, expecting trouble. However, the girls just ask Natalie some questions about where she goes to school and what she is doing there. They then hand her a flyer for a club, asking if she likes rap music. Natalie realizes she misread the situation and the girls just wanted to see if she was also an Eastender who enjoyed clubbing. She begins to wonder if she has misjudged others in the past.

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    Exploring Texts Extract and Questions Face Benjamin Zephaniah

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    Natalie, a Year 9 student, feels nervous when she notices three tough-looking girls watching her while she is out with her boyfriend and friends in East London. As the girls approach her, Natalie's heart races and her palms sweat from fear, expecting trouble. However, the girls just ask Natalie some questions about where she goes to school and what she is doing there. They then hand her a flyer for a club, asking if she likes rap music. Natalie realizes she misread the situation and the girls just wanted to see if she was also an Eastender who enjoyed clubbing. She begins to wonder if she has misjudged others in the past.

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    Face – Benjamin Zephaniah

    Natalie is a Year 9 student and lives in East London. She is out with
    her boyfriend and his friends. They have stopped to chat with some
    boys from school. Answer the question below and then check your
    ideas against ours. You can use the bullet points to help you.

    After a couple of minutes she realised that her every move was being
    watched by a group of three girls and she couldn't help noticing how
    tough they looked. All three were wearing dark blue baggy jeans. She
    was pretty sure they were Londoners born and bred but thought they
    could find a job working for the Jamaican tourist board, not simply
    because of their dark skin but also because of their clothing. One had a
    T-shirt saying 'I love Jamaica'. Another wore a T-shirt that was a
    Jamaican flag and the third just had a West Ham football shirt on, but
    she, like the others, was adorned with yellow, black and green
    bangles, badges and necklaces. Natalie thought they looked good, but
    dangerous.
    Natalie shifted nervously. She didn't know quite where to look but she
    had to put on a front. The other three girls made no attempt to hide
    the fact that they were on Natalie's case. They began to whisper to
    each other and smile as they stared at her. Natalie felt illuminated in
    her green satins and began to wish she had chosen clothes which
    weren't so loud. What are they grinning at? she wondered. Is it my
    clothes? My shoes? My hair? Do I look too innocent? Suddenly the
    three girls began to walk toward Natalie. Her heart began to race, the
    palms of her hands began to sweat. She felt like falling apart but she
    held herself together.
    'You from round here, den?' said the big girl wearing the Jamaican
    flag.
    'Yeah.'
    'What school yu go to, den?'
    'Eastmorelands.'
    'Yeah, I wanid to go there but they wouldn't let me, said I had ta go ta
    Lonsdale Park, said it was nearer. What ya doing here?'
    The other two girls continued to look her up and down. Natalie
    expected trouble and in her mind she cursed the boys for bringing her
    there and for the way they had got lost in their silly conversation about
    football and cars.
    'I'm just hanging around with my boyfriend and his mates.'
    At this point the girl wearing the West Ham shirt reached into her back
    pocket. Natalie swallowed hard as the girl pulled out a couple of
    leaflets. After separating one from the other she handed one to

    Natalie. 'Dat's the place to be, check it out, good vibes, good music. Ya
    like rap?'
    Natalie wanted to kick herself. She had completely misread the
    situation. They weren't out for a fight, they wanted to find out if she
    liked clubbing. They wanted to find out if she was one of them, an
    Eastender.
    'Yeah,' Natalie replied, feeling a sense of relief. 'Yeah, rap's cool...' She
    began to wonder if she sometimes looked threatening and if she
    herself had been misjudged in the past. For people to be friendly, did
    they have to have permanent smiles on their faces?

    Question
    How does the writer show Natalie's thoughts and feelings
    changing during the extract? Write your answer using P.E.E.D
    paragraphs.

    You should refer to:


     her first reactions to the girls she sees
     the way she acts just before, and when, they speak to her
     her thoughts at the end of the passage.

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