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AQA G CS E E N G L IS H L AN G UAG EPaper 2Ace Your Exams with Miss rexams

T H E LOW D OWN ON T H E E X A M !Paper 2 - Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives The exam is 1 Hour 45 minutes long. The exam is worth 50% of your GCSE English Language course. The paper is marked out of 80 (40 marks for reading & 40 marks for writing). You will have two sources to read, interpret and analyse. One source will be a 19thcentury text and the other will be from the 20th or 21st century, depending on whichtime period was assessed in Paper 1. The sources are usually newspaper articles, webpages, extracts from autobiographies,biographies or books. Question 1 will ask you to to identify four True statements. Question 2 will ask you to write a summary of the differences or similarities betweenthe two sources. Question 3 will ask you to analyse language in one of the sources. Question 4 will ask you to compare the writers’ perspectives in the two sources. Question 5 will ask you to express your viewpoint on a topic or theme linked to thetwo sources. You MUST allow time to check your work! Allow 10 minutes reading time for Section A.Section A - ReadingSection B - WritingQuestion 1 - 4 marks - 5 minsQuestion 5 - 40 marks - 45 minsQuestion 2 - 8 marks - 10 minsQuestion 3 - 12 marks - 15 minsQuestion 4 - 16 marks - 20 ourexams

Miss W’s Top Tips! DO read all of the questions through first so that you know what information you arelooking for when reading the sources. HIGHLIGHT and annotate the language features and interesting structural devices whenfirst reading the sources. CHECK your work. It may seem like a waste of time, but studies have shown that students who check and change their work score better in exams than those who don’t. PQE or PEE in all of your reading answers (apart from Q1). Using embedded quotations demonstrates a greater degree of sophistication. It also saves time as you don’thave to write any unwanted words in your answer. I would advise answering the questions in the following ORDER: Question 5, Question 1,Question 3, Question 2, Question 4. This way, you ensure you have enough time to answer the 40-mark writing question, and questions 1 and 3 are based on one source.Your annotations for question 2 may help with question rexams

THE BASICSOF POINT,QUOTE &EXPLAINGo to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v p6FxPidTcfw&t 4s&safe activefor help with ourexams

QUESTION 14 MARKS5 MINUTESTRUE or FALSEGo to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v zoajKNYUpGQ&safe activefor help with this /aceyourexams

QUESTION 1The Low Down! 1 mark is given for each correct answer 4 marks in total. True or false statements. Based on a specific section of the extract - 'Read lines 1-20’. Draw a circlearound the line numbers to make sure you take your answers from that specificsection. Assessment Objective 1 - 'Identify and interpret explicit and implicit informationand ideas' Make sure you only tick 4 answers!EXAMPLE QUESTION (Taken from Miss W’s video on Question 1) - EXHIBITIONSRead Source A from Lines 1-25Choose four statements which are TRUE.1. Charlotte comments on building works happening at her father's house.2. She had never visited Crystal Palace before writing this letter.3. Charlotte's father sent her a letter from Martha Taylor.4. Charlotte was impressed by the exhibition she visited.5. Charlotte states that thirty thousand people visited the attraction that day.6. Despite the large crowds of people, it was surprisingly quiet at the exhibition.7. Mr. Thackeray's lectures were not very successful.8. Charlotte was pleased Mr. Thackeray postponed his aceyourexams

SOURCE A: Charlotte Bronte’s letter to her father, written in 1851.TO REV. P. BRONTË112 GLOUCESTER TERRACE,HYDE PARK, June 7th, 1851.DEAR PAPA,—I was very glad to hear that you continued in pretty good health,and that Mr. Cartman came to help you on Sunday. I fear you will not have had avery comfortable week in the dining-room; but by this time I suppose the parlourreformation will be nearly completed, and you will soon be able to return toyour old quarters. The letter you sent me this morning was from Mary Taylor.She continues well and happy in New Zealand, and her shop seems to answerwell. The French newspaper duly arrived.Yesterday I went for the second time to the Crystal Palace. We remained in itabout three hours, and I must say I was more struck with it on this occasion thanat my first visit. It is a wonderful place—vast, strange, new, and impossible todescribe. Its grandeur does not consist in one thing, but in the uniqueassemblage of all things. Whatever human industry has created, you find there,from the great compartments filled with railway engines and boilers, with millmachinery in full work, with splendid carriages of all kinds, with harness of everydescription—to the glass-covered and velvet-spread stands loaded with the mostgorgeous work of the goldsmith and silversmith, and the carefully guardedcaskets full of real diamonds and pearls worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.It may be called a bazaar or a fair, but it is such a bazaar or fair as Eastern geniimight have created. It seems as if magic only could have gathered this mass ofwealth from all the ends of the earth—as if none but supernatural hands couldhave arranged it thus, with such a blaze and contrast of colours and marvellouspower of effect. The multitude filling the great aisles seems ruled and subduedby some invisible influence. Amongst the thirty thousand souls that peopled itthe day I was there, not one loud noise was to be heard, not one irregularmovement seen—the living tide rolls on quietly, with a deep hum like the seaheard from the distance.Mr. Thackeray is in high spirits about the success of his lectures. It is likely toadd largely both to his fame and purse. He has, however, deferred this week’slecture till next Thursday, at the earnest petition of the duchesses andmarchionesses, who, on the day it should have been delivered, werenecessitated to go down with the Queen and Court to Ascot Races. I told him Ithought he did wrong to put it off on their account—and I think so still. Theamateur performance of Bulwer’s play for the Guild of Literature has likewisebeen deferred on account of the races.I hope, dear papa, that you, Mr. Nicholls, and all at home continue well. TellMartha to take her scrubbing and cleaning in moderation and not overworkherself. With kind regards to her and Tabby,I am your affectionate daughter,C. BRONTË.5101520253035

QUESTION 28 MARKS10 MINUTESSUMMARYGo to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v zq6MXKeo1Uc&t 25s&safe activefor help with this /aceyourexams

QUESTION 2The Low Down! Will ask you to write a SUMMARY of the differences or similarities between the twosources. SUMMARY A brief statement or account of the main points of something. Focuses on Source A and B. PQE - Inference is the main skill they are assessing. 8 Marks. Aim for 2-3 paragraphs. 10 minutes.EXAMPLE QUESTION (Taken from Miss W’s video on Question 2) - EXHIBITIONSYou need to refer to Source A and Source B for this question.Use details from both sources. Write a summary of the differences between the com/aceyourexams

SOURCE A: Charlotte Bronte’s letter to her father, written in 1851.TO REV. P. BRONTË112 GLOUCESTER TERRACE,HYDE PARK, June 7th, 1851.DEAR PAPA,—I was very glad to hear that you continued in pretty good health,and that Mr. Cartman came to help you on Sunday. I fear you will not have had avery comfortable week in the dining-room; but by this time I suppose the parlourreformation will be nearly completed, and you will soon be able to return toyour old quarters. The letter you sent me this morning was from Mary Taylor.She continues well and happy in New Zealand, and her shop seems to answerwell. The French newspaper duly arrived.Yesterday I went for the second time to the Crystal Palace. We remained in itabout three hours, and I must say I was more struck with it on this occasion thanat my first visit. It is a wonderful place—vast, strange, new, and impossible todescribe. Its grandeur does not consist in one thing, but in the uniqueassemblage of all things. Whatever human industry has created, you find there,from the great compartments filled with railway engines and boilers, with millmachinery in full work, with splendid carriages of all kinds, with harness of everydescription—to the glass-covered and velvet-spread stands loaded with the mostgorgeous work of the goldsmith and silversmith, and the carefully guardedcaskets full of real diamonds and pearls worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.It may be called a bazaar or a fair, but it is such a bazaar or fair as Eastern geniimight have created. It seems as if magic only could have gathered this mass ofwealth from all the ends of the earth—as if none but supernatural hands couldhave arranged it thus, with such a blaze and contrast of colours and marvellouspower of effect. The multitude filling the great aisles seems ruled and subduedby some invisible influence. Amongst the thirty thousand souls that peopled itthe day I was there, not one loud noise was to be heard, not one irregularmovement seen—the living tide rolls on quietly, with a deep hum like the seaheard from the distance.Mr. Thackeray is in high spirits about the success of his lectures. It is likely toadd largely both to his fame and purse. He has, however, deferred this week’slecture till next Thursday, at the earnest petition of the duchesses andmarchionesses, who, on the day it should have been delivered, werenecessitated to go down with the Queen and Court to Ascot Races. I told him Ithought he did wrong to put it off on their account—and I think so still. Theamateur performance of Bulwer’s play for the Guild of Literature has likewisebeen deferred on account of the races.I hope, dear papa, that you, Mr. Nicholls, and all at home continue well. TellMartha to take her scrubbing and cleaning in moderation and not overworkherself. With kind regards to her and Tabby,I am your affectionate daughter,C. BRONTË.5101520253035

SOURCE B: Excerpt from ‘A History of Modern Britain’ by Andrew Marr,published 2007Other early initiatives would crumble to dust and ashes. One of the mostinteresting examples is the Dome, centrepiece of millennium celebrationsinherited from the Conservatives. Blair was initially unsure about whether toforge ahead with the 1 billion gamble. He was argued into the Dome project byPeter Mandelson who wanted to be its impresario, and by John Prescott, wholiked the new money it would bring to a blighted part of east London. Prescottsuggested New Labour wouldn’t be much of a government if it could not make asuccess of this. Blair agreed, though had the Dome ever come to a cabinet votehe would have lost.Architecturally the Dome was striking and elegant, a landmark for London whichcan be seen by almost every air passenger arriving in the capital. Public moneywas spent on cleaning up a poisoned semicircle of derelict land and brining newTube and road links. The millennium was certainly worth celebrating. But theproblem ministers and their advisers could not solve was what their pleasureDome should contain. Should it be for a great national party? Should it beeducational? Beautiful? Thought-provoking? A fun park? Nobody could decide. Theinstinct of the British towards satire was irresistible as the project continuedsurrounded by cranes and political hullabaloo. The Dome would be magnificent,unique, a tribute to daring and can-do. Blair himself said it would provide thefirst paragraph of his next election manifesto.A well-funded, self-confident management was put in place but the bright child’squestion – yes, but what’s it for? – would not go away. When the Dome finallyopened, at New Year, the Queen, Prime Minister and hundreds of donors,business people and celebrities were treated to a mishmash of a show whichembarrassed many of them. Bad organization meant most of the guests had along, freezing and damp wait to get in for the celebrations. Xanadu this was not.The fiasco meant the Dome was roasted in most newspapers and when it openedto the public, the range of mildly interesting exhibits was greeted as a hugedisappointment. Far fewer people came and bought tickets than was hoped. Itturned out to be a theme park without a theme, morphing in the publicimagination into the earliest and most damaging symbol of what was wrong withNew Labour: an impressively constructed big tent containing not very much atall. It was produced by some of the people closest to the Prime Minister andtherefore boomeranged particularly badly on him and the group already knownas ‘Tony’s cronies’. Optimism and daring, it seemed, were not enough.Q1: Read Source A. Tick four statements below which are TRUE51015202530

QUESTION 312 MARKS15 MINUTESLANGUAGEGo to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v PSXn0HzoRLQ&t 25s&safe activefor help with this /aceyourexams

QUESTION 3The Low Down! Will ask you to analyse the effect of language (words) on the reader. You must comment on the EFFECT of the words in the quote you have chosen. Howdo they make the reader feel? Don't worry about specific language features - look for words and phrases which answer the question. Will be focused on one source. May be focused on a specific section of the source. Write 4-5 paragraphs. 15 minsEXAMPLE QUESTION (Taken from Miss W’s video on Question 3) - DISABILITIESRefer only to Source B.How does the writer use language to describe The Elephant Man? 12 yourexams

Source B: ‘The Elephant Man’ by Sir Frederick Treves, published 1923In this autobiographical extract, the writer is a doctor who describes meeting a mannamed John Merrick who was born with severe physical deformities. Merrick was beingexhibited as a ‘freak show’ attraction in a circus – and was given the nickname, ‘TheElephant Man.’The shop was empty and grey with dust. Some old tins and a few shrivelled potatoesoccupied a shelf and some vegetables littered the window. The light of the place wasdim, being obscured by the painted placard outside. The far end of the shop – where Iexpect the late proprietor sat at a desk – was cut off by a curtain or rather by a redtablecloth suspended from a cord by a few rings. The room was cold and dank, for it wasthe month of November. The year, I might say, was 1884.The showman pulled back the curtain and revealed a bent figure crouching on a stooland covered by a brown blanket. In front of it, on a tripod, was a large brick heated by aBunsen burner. Over this the creature was huddled to warm itself. It never moved whenthe curtain was drawn back. Locked up in an empty shop and lit by the faint blue light ofthe gas jet, this hunched-up figure was the embodiment of loneliness. It might have beena captive in a cavern or a wizard watching for unholy apparitions in the ghostly flame.Outside the sun was shining and one could hear the footsteps of the passers-by, a tunewhistled by a boy and the familiar hum of traffic in the road.The showman – speaking as if to a dog – called out harshly: “Stand up!” The thing aroseslowly and let the blanket that covered its head and back fall to the ground. There stoodrevealed the most disgusting specimen of humanity that I have ever seen. In the courseof my profession I had come upon tragic deformities of the face due to injury or disease,as well as mutilations and contortions of the body depending upon like causes; but at notime had I met with such a degraded or perverted version of a human being as this lonefigure displayed. He was naked to the waist, his feet were bare, he wore a pair ofthreadbare trousers that had once belonged to some fat gentleman’s dress suit.From the advertisement in the street I had imagined the Elephant Man to be of giganticsize. This, however, was a little man below the average height and made to look shorterby the bowing of his back. The most striking feature about him was his enormous andmisshapen head. From the brow there projected a huge bony mass like a loaf, while fromthe back of the head hung a bag of spongy, fungous-looking skin, the surface of whichwas comparable to a brown cauliflower. On the top of the skull were a few long lankhairs. The osseous growth on the forehead almost obscured one eye. The circumferenceof the head was no less than that of the man’s waist. From the upper jaw there projectedanother mass of bone. It protruded from the mouth like a pink stump, turning the upperlip inside out and making of the mouth a mere slobbering aperture. This growth from thejaw had been so exaggerated in the painting as to appear to be a rudimentary trunk ortusk. His nose was merely a lump of flesh, only recognizable as a nose from its position.The face was no more capable of expression than a block of gnarled wood. The backwas horrible, because from it hung, as far down as the middle of the thigh, huge, sacklike masses of flesh covered by the same loathsome cauliflower skin.The right arm was of enormous size and shapeless. It suggested the limb of the subjectof elephantiasis. It was overgrown also with pendent masses of the same cauliflower-likeskin. His hand was large and clumsy – a fin or paddle rather than a hand. There was nodistinction between the palm and the back. The thumb had the appearance of a radish,while the fingers might have been its thick, tuberous roots. As a limb it was almostuseless. The other arm was remarkable by contrast. It was not only normal but was,moreover, a delicately shaped limb covered with fine skin and provided with a beautiful510152025303540

hand which any woman might have envied. From the chest hung a bag of the samerepulsive flesh. The lower limbs had the characters of the deformed arm. They wereunwieldy and grossly mis-shapen.To add a further burden to his trouble the wretched man, when a boy, developed hipdisease, which had left him permanently lame, so that he could only walk with a stick. Hewas thus denied all means of escape from his tormentors. As he told me later, he couldnever run away. One other feature must be mentioned to emphasize his isolation fromhis kind. Although he was already repellent enough, there arose from the fungous skingrowth with which he was almost covered a very sickening stench which was hard totolerate. From the showman I learnt nothing about the Elephant Man, except that he wasEnglish, that his name was John Merrick and that he was twenty-one years of age.455055

QUESTION 416 MARKS20 MINUTESCOMPARISON OFPERSPECTIVESGo to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v z6l1gaVRGW8&t 3s&safe activefor help with this /aceyourexams

QUESTION 4The Low Down! Will ask you to compare what writers think and feel in the two sources you are given. You must use words of comparison - both, also, in contrast to, on the other hand,however. Do Q1 and Q3, then Q2 and Q4. Annotations noted for Q2 could help with Q4. Methods language and structure. 12 marks. Aim for 6 points/3 comparative paragraphs. 20 mins.EXAMPLE QUESTION (Taken from Miss W’s video on Question 4) - NURSINGRefer to both Source A and Source BCompare how the writers convey their attitudes to nursing.In your answer, you should:compare their attitudescompare the methods they use to convey their attitudessupport your ideas with references to both yourexams

SOURCE A:Florence Nightingale was a nurse during the Cr

have to write any unwanted words in your answer. I would advise answering the questions in the following ORDER: Question 5, Question 1, Question 3, Question 2, Question 4. This way, you ensure you have enough time to an-swer the 40-mark writing question, and questions 1 and 3 are based on one source.

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