QUESTION PAPER

GCSE - AQA Style

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Paper 2 Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives

Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Materials
For this paper you must have:
• Source A and Source B – provided as a separate insert

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 assessed on the quality of your reading in Section A
• You will 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.

Question No. 1 2 3 4 5
Total Marks

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 Section A
Answer all questions in this section.
You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on this section.

01 Read again the first part of source A, lines 1 to 9.

Choose four statements below which are TRUE.

• Shade the boxes of the ones that you think are true
• Choose a maximum of four statements

A. Emin can’t remember much about her childhood holidays

B. Margate had hardly changed since the Victorian times

C. Emin disliked growing up by the seaside

D. Margate was a safe place for children to play

E. The Lido was Emin’s favourite place to play

F. Emin and the other children played at the Lido every day
in the summer

G. Emin’s favourite place to go to was the ice cream parlour

H. It used to rain during Emin’s holidays as a child

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 02 You need to refer to source A and source B for this question:

The two seaside towns that Emin and Dickens remember were different.
Use details from both sources to write a summary of the differences.

[8 marks]

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 03 You now need to refer only to source B, Dickens’ description of his favourite
seaside resort, from line 7 to 23.

How does Dickens use language to describe the seaside resort of Broadstairs?

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 04 For this question, you need to refer to the whole of source A together with
the whole of source B.

Compare how the writers have conveyed their different views and
experiences of the seaside.

In your answer, you could:

• compare their different views and experiences

• compare the methods they use to convey those views and
experiences
• support your ideas with quotations from both texts

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 Section B
You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on this section.
Write in full sentences.
You are reminded of the need to plan your answer.
You should leave enough time to check your work at the end.

A local newspaper commented: ‘There are no facilities any more for local
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children to enjoy themselves and build happy memories: where are the parks,
the pools, the playgrounds?’

Write a letter to your local MP arguing that more should be done to improve
facilities for children in your area

(24 marks for content and organisation,

16 marks for technical accuracy)
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