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ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing

June 2020 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes

Materials

For this paper you must have:

• Source A – provided as a separate insert.

Instructions

• Answer all questions.

• Use black ink or black ball-point pen.

• Fill in the boxes at the top of 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.

• 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 are advised to plan your answer to Question 5 before you start to write.

• You should make sure you leave sufficient time to check your answers.

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Section A: Reading

Answer all questions in this section.

You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on this section.

Read again the first part of the source, from lines 1 to 4.

List four things about Mr Fisher from this part of the source.

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Mr Fisher remembered a time – surely, not so long ago – when books were golden, when

imaginations soared, when the world was filled with stories which ran like gazelles and

pounced like tigers and exploded like rockets, illuminating minds and hearts. He had seen it

happen; had seen whole classes swept away in the fever. In those days, there were

heroes; there were dragons and dinosaurs; there were space adventurers and soldiers of

fortune and giant apes. In those days, thought Mr Fisher, we dreamed in colour, though

films were in black and white, and good always triumphed in the end.

How does the writer use language here to convey Mr Fisher’s views on

books and stories of the past?

You could include the writer’s choice of:

• words and phrases

• language features and techniques

• sentence forms.

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