Aqa GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing (8700/1) JUNE 2022 OFFICIAL QUESTION PAPER

Aqa GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing (8700/1) JUNE 2022 OFFICIAL QUESTION PAPER. 1. Read again the first part of the source, from lines 1 to 6. List four things about the brush house and what is happening in this part of the source. [4 marks] 2. Look in detail at this extract, from lines 7 to 17 of the source: Kino’s breath whistled in his nostrils and he opened his mouth to stop it. And then the startled look was gone from him and the rigidity from his body. In his mind a new song had come, the Song of Evil, the music of the enemy, of any foe of the family, a savage, secret, dangerous melody, and underneath, the Song of the Family cried plaintively. The scorpion moved delicately down the rope toward the box. Kino was in motion. His body glided quietly across the room, noiselessly and smoothly. His hands were in front of him, palms down, and his eyes were on the scorpion. It sensed danger when Kino was almost within reach of it. It stopped, and its tail rose up over its back in little jerks and the curved thorn on the tail’s end glistened. Kino stood perfectly still. He could not move until the scorpion moved, and it felt for the source of the death that was coming to it. Kino’s hand went forward very slowly, very smoothly. The thorned tail jerked upright.