GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (8700), Lecture notes of English Language

Download GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (8700) and more Lecture notes English Language in PDF only on Docsity! Please write clearly in block capitals. TURTON PAPER B Centre number Candidate number Surname Forename(s) Candidate signature GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (8700) Paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes Materials For this paper you must have: • Source A – printed within the question paper. Instructions • Answer all questions. • Use black ink or black ball-point 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 of 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. • 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. 8700/1 Turn over 4 Section A: Reading Answer all questions in this section. You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on this section. 0 1 Read again the first part of the Source from lines 1 to 7. List four things from this part of the text that Rebecca does in her dream. [4 marks] 1 2 3 4 5 Turn over 4 0 2 Look in detail at this extract from lines 20 to 33 of the Source: The drive was a ribbon now, a thread of its former self, with gravel surface gone, and choked with grass and moss. The trees had thrown out low branches, making an impediment to progress; the gnarled roots looked like skeleton claws. Scattered here and again amongst this jungle growth I would recognize shrubs that had been landmarks in our time, things of culture and grace, hydrangeas whose blue heads had been famous. No hand had checked their progress, and they had gone native now, rearing to monster height without a bloom, black and ugly as the nameless parasites that grew beside them. On and on, now east now west, wound the poor thread that once had been our drive. Sometimes I thought it lost, but it appeared again, beneath a fallen tree perhaps, or struggling on the other side of a muddied ditch created by the winter rains. I had not thought the way so long. Surely the miles had multiplied, even as the trees had done, and this path led but to a labyrinth, some choked wilderness, and not to the house at all. I came upon it suddenly; the approach masked by the unnatural growth of a vast shrub that spread in all directions, and I stood, my heart thumping in my breast, the strange prick of tears behind my eyes. How does the writer use language here to describe the relationship between the two men? You could include the writer’s choice of: • words and phrases • language features and techniques • sentence forms. [8 marks] 8 9 Turn over 4 0 4 Focus this part of your answer on the second part of the Source from line 20 to the end. 1. A student, having read this section of the text said ‘The place of Manderley is more like a living character than a setting in this extract.’ To what extent do you agree with that statement? To what extent do you agree? In your response, you could: • write about your own impressions of the characters • evaluate how the writer has created these impressions • support your opinions with references to the text. [20 marks] 10