AQA-Style English Language - Paper 1 - Section A

1 AQA-Style English Language - Paper 1 - Section A Please write clearly in block capitals. Centre number Candidate number Surname _____ Forename(s) _____ Candidate signature _____ Materials For this Paper you must have: Source A provided as a separate insert. Instructions Answer all questions. Use black ink or black ballpoint pen. Fill in the boxes on this page. You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages. Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. You must refer to the insert booklet provided. You must not use a dictionary. Information The marks for questions are shown in brackets. The maximum mark for this Paper is 80. There are 40 marks for Section A and 40 marks for Section B. You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers.

2 You will be assessed on the quality of your reading in Section A. You will be assessed on the quality of your writing in Section B. Advice You are advised to spend about 15 minutes reading through the source and all five questions you have to answer. You should make sure you leave sufficient time to check your answers. Date / Morning / Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes For Examiner s Use Question Mark 1 2 3 4 5 TOTAL GCSE English Language Paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing 8700/1 Approximate timings: Q1 - 5 minutes Q2 - 10 minutes Q3 - 10 minutes Q4 - 20 minutes Q5 - 45 minutes Paper 1 Section A Style Questions Contents 1) The BFG Roald Dahl (Pages 1-2) 2) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum (Pages 3-4) 3) Skellig David Almond (Pages 5-6) 4) Charlotte s Web E. B. White (Pages 7-8) 5) Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian (Pages 9-10) 6) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.

3 K. Rowling (Pages 11-12) 7) The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling (Pages 13-14) 8) jurassic park Michael crichton (Pages 15-16) 9) Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck (Pages 17-18) 10) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis (Pages 19-20) 11) Prince Caspian C. S. Lewis (Pages 21-22) 12) The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins (Pages 23-24) 13) The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien (Pages 25-26) 14) The Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. Tolkien (Pages 27-28) 15) Lord of the Flies William Golding (Pages 29-30) 16) Me Before You Jojo Moyes (Pages 31-32) 17) The Railway Children Edith Nesbit (Pages 33-34) 18) Watership Down Richard Adams (Pages 35-36) 19) The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett (Pages 37-38) 20) Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson (Pages 39-40) Source A The BFG 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 The giant took off his black cloak and hung it against the wall.

4 Sophie saw that under the cloak he was wearing a sort of collarless shirt and a dirty old leather waistcoat that didn t seem to have any buttons. His trousers were faded green and were far too short in the legs. On his bare feet he was wearing a pair of ridiculous sandals that for some reason had holes cut along each side, with a large hole at the end where his toes stuck out. Sophie, crouching on the floor of the cave in her nightie, gazed back at him through thick steel-rimmed glasses. She was trembling like a leaf in the wind, and a finger of ice was running up and down the length of her spine. Ha! shouted the Giant, walking forward and rubbing his hands together. What has us got here? His booming voice rolled around the walls of the cave like a burst of thunder. The Giant picked up the trembling Sophie with one hand and carried her across the cave and put her on the table.

5 Now he really is going to eat me, Sophie thought. The Giant sat down and stared hard at Sophie. He had truly enormous ears. Each one was as big as the wheel of a truck and he seemed to be able to move them inwards and outwards from his head as he wished. I is hungry! the Giant boomed. He grinned, showing massive square teeth. The teeth were very white and very square and they sat in his mouth like huge slices of white bread. P .. please don t eat me, Sophie stammered. The Giant led out a bellow of laughter. Just because I is a giant, you think I is a man-gobbling cannybull! he shouted. You is about right! Giants is all cannybully and murderful! And they does gobble up human beans! We is in Giant Country now! Giants is everywhere around! Out there us has the famous Bonecrunching Giant! Bonecrunching Giant crunches up two wopsey whiffling human beans for supper every night!

6 Noise is earbursting! Noise of crunching bones goes crackety-crack for miles around! Owch! Sophie said. Bonecrunching Giant only gobbles human beans from Turkey, the Giant said. Every night Bonecrucher is galloping off to Turkey to gobble Turks. Sophie s sense of patriotism was suddenly so bruised by this remark that she became quite angry. Why Turks? she blurted out. What s wrong with the English ? Bonecruching Giant says Turks is tasting oh ever so much juicier and more scrumdiddlyumptious! Bonecruncher says Turkish human beans has a glamourly flavour. He says Turks from Turkey is tasting of turkey. The BFG was published in 1982. The story concentrates on Sophie, an orphan, who is captured by a giant (The Big Friendly Giant). The BFG captures good dreams at night and gives them to children. 1 Paper 1 Section A Style Questions The BFG Q1 Read again the first part of the source, lines 1 to 5.

7 List four things about the Giant from this part of the source. [4 marks] Q2 Look in detail at this extract, from lines 6 to 12 of the source: How does the writer use Language here to convey Sophie s anxiety (nervousness)? You could include the writer s choice of: words and phrases Language features and techniques sentence forms. [8 marks] Q3 You now need to think about the whole of the source. This text is from the beginning of the story. How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader? You could write about: what the writer focuses your attention on at the beginning of the source how and why the writer changes this focus as the source develops any other structural features that interest you. [8 marks] Q4 Focus this part of your answer on the second part of the source, from line 16 to the end. A reader said, This part of the story, where the Giant is describing what Giants are like, shows that they should be feared.

8 To what extent do you agree? In your response, you could: consider your own impressions of what the Giants are like evaluate how the writer conveys Sophie s reaction to what she hears support your response with references to the text. [20 marks] 2 Source A The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 The cyclone had set the house down very gently - for a cyclone - in the midst of a country of marvellous beauty. There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes. A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, grey prairies.

9 While she stood looking eagerly at the strange and beautiful sights, she noticed coming toward her a group of the queerest people she had ever seen. They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small. In fact, they seemed about as tall as Dorothy, who was a well-grown child for her age, although they were, so far as looks go, many years older. Three were men and one a woman, and all were oddly dressed. They wore round hats that rose to a small point a foot above their heads, with little bells around the brims that tinkled sweetly as they moved. The hats of the men were blue; the little woman's hat was white, and she wore a white gown that hung in pleats from her shoulders. Over it were sprinkled little stars that glistened in the sun like diamonds. The men were dressed in blue, of the same shade as their hats, and wore well- polished boots with a deep roll of blue at the tops.

10 The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two of them had beards. But the little woman was doubtless much older. Her face was covered with wrinkles, her hair was nearly white, and she walked rather stiffly. When these people drew near the house where Dorothy was standing in the doorway, they paused and whispered among themselves, as if afraid to come farther. But the little old woman walked up to Dorothy, made a low bow and said, in a sweet voice: "You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage." Dorothy listened to this speech with wonder. What could the little woman possibly mean by calling her a sorceress, and saying she had killed the Wicked Witch of the East? Dorothy was an innocent, harmless little girl, who had been carried by a cyclone many miles from home; and she had never killed anything in all her life.