English lang - anthology texts

• In 'The Danger of a Single Story', Adichie illustrates how media and literature available to the public often only portray one side of a story, which causes people to generalise and make assumptions about groups of people.
• In 'A Passage to Africa', Alagiah writes about a time when he went to Africa during the war in Somalia, and he describes the sufferings of the people he saw there.
• In 'The Explorer's Daughter', Herbert describes the hunt of a narwhal and her struggle to accept the hunt as acceptable. The extract is set amongst the Inuit people, where she used to live as a young child.
• In 'Explorers or boys messing about? ...' Morris discusses a helicopter crash that occurred by two British explorers, and criticises the two men for the decisions that they have made.
• In 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place', Ralston tells the story of how he was trapped for 6 days when a rock fell and landed on his arm, trapping his wrist against a wall.
• In 'Young and Dyslexic? You've got it going on' Zephaniah outlines the issues he encountered with his dyslexia.
• In 'A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat', Levine describes an unusual donkey race she witnessed in Pakistan.
• In 'Beyond the Sky and the Earth : A Journey into Bhutan' Zeppa describes her encounters with Bhutan. She describes the local area and the people that she meets along the journey.
• In 'H is for Hawk' Macdonald is describing the moment that she meets the animal that she is about to train for the first time. She seems scared of the larger bird and she decides that she would like to train the one the man brought out first.
• In 'Chinese Cinderella', Adeline Yen Mah is outlining her experiences of growing up in Hong Kong. She describes a moment when her father became proud of her and she made a life-changing decision to move to the UK.