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GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing

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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 5. List four things about the motor-van... from this part of the source. [4 marks] 1 2 3 4 4 3 *03* Turn over ► IB/G/Jun19/8700/1 Do not write outside the 0 2 Look box in detail at this extract, from lines 6 to 12 of the source: Hartop was driving: a thin, angular man, starved-faced. He seemed to occupy almost all the seat, sprawling awkwardly; so that his wife and their daughter Alice sat squeezed up, the girl with her arms flat as though ironed against her side, her thin legs pressed tight together into the size of one. The Hartops’ faces seemed moulded in clay and in the light from the van-lamps were a flat swede-colour. Like the man, the two women were thin, with a screwed-up thinness that made them look both hard and frightened. How does the writer use language here to describe the Hartop family? You could include the writer’s choice of: • words and phrases • language features and techniques • sentence forms. [8 marks] 4 *04* IB/G/Jun19/8700/1 Do not write outside the box 8 5 *05* Turn over ► IB/G/Jun19/8700/1 Do not write outside the box Extra space Turn over for the next question 6 *06* IB/G/Jun19/8700/1 Do not write outside the 0 3 You now need to think about the whole of the source box . This text is from the beginning of a short 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. [Show More]

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