The chair of a town council subcommittee updates residents on recent changes to Croft Valley Park. Using a map, he locates the café, toilets, gardens, gym, skateboard ramp and wild flower area, then gives more detail about the new adventure playground and the repaired glass houses.
Questions 11-20 · 10 marks · 3 question blocks
The map questions (11-16) come in list order, from the café to the wild flowers. 'Now let me tell you a bit more about some of the changes' moves you to the adventure playground (17-18), and 'Lastly, the glass houses' starts 19-20.
Type what you wrote and hit mark. Hide the key first if you haven't done the part yet. Every question number jumps to its explanation.
How to attack this block: Fix the landmarks first: the north and south gates, the lake in the middle, the old museum, the glass houses and the adventure playground in the north. Two features are described with an old and a new position (toilets and formal gardens), so make sure you mark where things are now.
Where is the café?
is still in the same place, looking out over the lake and next to the old museum
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Why: The café hasn't moved. Find the spot that faces the lake and is beside the old museum: D.
The trap: Several letters are near the lake. Use the second clue, next to the old museum, to choose.
Where are the toilets now?
as they're a bit out of the way at present, near the adventure playground, in the corner of your map
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Why: 'At present' gives the current position: near the adventure playground, in the corner. That's C.
The trap: The centre of the park is where they hope to move the toilets. That's a plan, not their location.
Where are the replanted formal gardens?
They used to be behind the old museum, but we've now used the space near the south gate - between the park boundary and the path that goes past the lake towards the old museum.
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Why: Go in at the south gate and find the path heading past the lake to the museum. The gardens are between that path and the edge of the park: G.
The trap: Behind the old museum is the old position. 'But we've now' gives the new one.
Where is the outdoor gym?
It's by the glass houses, just to the right of the path from the south gate.
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Why: Walk in from the south gate. On your right, by the glass houses, is the gym: H. He adds that it's a bit hidden in the trees.
The trap: The formal gardens are also near the south gate. The gym is on the right of the path, beside the glass houses.
Where is the skateboard ramp?
It's near the old museum, at the end of a little path that leads off from the main path between the lake and the museum.
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Why: Find the main path from the lake to the museum, then the small side path off it. The ramp is at the end of that: A.
The trap: The café is also near the museum. The ramp is at the end of a separate little path, not beside the lake.
Where is the wild flower area?
a bend in the path that goes round the east side of the lake, just south of the adventure playground
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Why: Follow the path round the east side of the lake to the bend just below the adventure playground: E.
The trap: The toilets are also near the playground, but in the corner. The wild flowers are on the path bend south of it, by the lake.
How to attack this block: The playground facts come quickly in a few sentences: opening times, price, age, adults. Each wrong option twists one of these facts, for example winter changes the hours, not the price.
Which two things are true about the adventure playground?
though it closes early in the winter months, and entrance is completely free. … but we do ask adults not to leave them on their own there
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Why: 'Entrance is completely free' is D. Asking adults not to leave children on their own means they must be supervised, A.
The trap: B: winter changes the closing time, not the price. C: children choose activities 'irrespective of their age'. E: it's a completely new facility, not an expansion.
How to attack this block: Money and plants come up a lot here, but in the past tense: £80,000 has already been spent. Match each option to what is true now: the damage, the opening days and the missing palm trees.
Which two things are true about the glass houses?
following the disastrous fire that recently destroyed their western side. … open from 10am to 3pm Mondays to Thursdays, and it's hoped to extend this to the weekend soon
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Why: A fire destroyed the western side (C). They open Monday to Thursday and only hope to open at weekends soon, so they're closed at weekends now (A).
The trap: D: over £80,000 was already spent replacing the glass. E: the tropical palms were too expensive to replace, so you can't see them. B: he thanks past helpers, but doesn't ask for volunteers.
The council is 'hoping to change the location of the toilets' to the centre. That hasn't happened yet: the toilets are still near the adventure playground, in the corner.
The formal gardens used to be behind the old museum, which is said first. They're now near the south gate, between the boundary and the path past the lake.
D sounds right because so much money was spent on glass, but that money has already been spent. The open question is the palm trees, and that rules out E as well.
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