2023 AQA A-level ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 7707/1 Paper 1 Telling Stories Question Paper & Mark scheme (Merged) June 2023 [VERIFIED] A-level ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

2023 AQA A-level ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 7707/1 Paper 1 Telling Stories Question Paper & Mark scheme (Merged) June 2023 [VERIFIED] A-level ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Paper 1 Telling Stories Wednesday 24 May 2023 Afternoon Time allowed: 3 hours Materials For this paper you must have: • an AQA 12-page answer book • a copy of the set texts you have studied for Section B and Section C. These texts must not be annotated and must not contain additional notes or materials. Instructions • Use black ink or black ball-point pen. • Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7707/1. • There are three sections: Section A: Remembered Places Section B: Imagined Worlds Section C: Poetic Voices • Answer three questions in total: the question in Section A, one question from Section B and one question from Section C. • Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. Information • The maximum mark for this paper is 100. • The marks for questions are shown in brackets. • There are 40 marks for the question in Section A, 35 marks for the question in Section B and 25 marks for the question in Section C. • You will be marked on your ability to: – use good English – organise information clearly – use specialist vocabulary where appropriate. Advice It is recommended that you spend 70 minutes on Section A, 60 minutes on Section B and 50 minutes on Section C. IB/G/Jun23/E8 7707/1 2 Section A Remembered Places Answer Question 1 in this section. Read Text A and Text B printed below and on pages 3 and 4. Text A is an extract from Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixties by Peter Lennon. Text B is an extract from Visiting Paris by Mike and Sophia. 0 1 Compare and contrast how the writer of Text A and the speakers of Text B express their ideas about their first experiences in Paris. You should refer to both texts in your answer. [40 marks] Text A Peter Lennon was an Irish journalist who moved to Paris and covered events from there for The Guardian newspaper throughout the 1960s. Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixties is his account of leaving Ireland for Paris, and his reflections on his time there. I was surprised to discover that the Eiffel Tower was on the Left Bank and not straddling the Champs-Élysées, as I had somehow imagined. I did not like the dryness of the Tuileries nor its rigid design. I missed the lusciousness of our parks. 5 I was fascinated by Americans in Paris. They sat, family groups, in cafés in a sort of trance. They seemed to be guarding their Americanism like something precious: as if on one level it had to be put on display and on another they were afraid it might be snatched from them by the foreigners. Nationalities were gloriously identifiable 10 in those days before international homogenization of dress. As they wandered from monument to museum I noticed they had a curious disinclination to listen to one another: the women commented on everything with a deadly, calculating enthusiasm; the men bestowed a laconic benediction in ball-game Americanese on a Mona Lisa, a 15 Champs or a fillet steak. Living an underfed over-excited existence, disorientated by the absence of any familiar smugness, almost afraid amongst such strangeness, I wanted to convey to someone a sense of what I was experiencing. Jokey postcards home were not enough after the first two weeks, so I wrote, my 20 first literary letters, to Jack White. I announced grandly that I was learning something about Paris and about Europeans and ‘because I now have something to set up as a comparison I am beginning to understand certain things about Dublin and the Irish’. 25 It has been said [I wrote solemnly] that Paris does not belong to the French but to the world. That is true in the sense that the world has IB/G/Jun23/7707/1 3 moved in and claimed it, like a public claiming a national theatre. Because of this, Paris, which is the stage, and the Parisians, who are the actors, have inevitably absorbed something from their possessive 30 public – their vulgarity, their notion of what Paris should be. Paris knows what is expected of it and can be depended on to produce the trivial, vicious, depraved, dramatic or beautiful things which its public demands. But it also has genuine splendour, a splendour of artistic and intellectual achievement so much greater than the bizarre 35 displays of tourist ‘art’ and antics everyone is familiar with. The real life of Paris is outside all this, among the genuine artists, the students and scholars and the French families living a regular, normal, slightly prudish life. It is the genuine animation, the sense of ‘life’ which leaves the deepest impression on me. I have lived in 40 Ireland all my life reading about ‘life’, now for the first time I see ‘life’, cosmopolitan people playing the great game of life. Turn over for Text B Turn over ► IB/G/Jun23/7707/1 4 Text B This text is part of a set of multi-speaker and one-speaker discourse involving three speakers, Isabelle, Mike and Sophia, talking about their memories of visiting or living in Paris. All three are students at a university in the East Midlands. Mike and Sophia were born in the UK. The transcript was recorded in 2013. Sophia: what kind of tourists did you see there Mike: what do you mean Sophia: from (.) er (.) from all countries (.) yeah Mike: everywhere (2) absolutely (.) there are so many different people in 5 Paris Sophia: yeah Mike: you never know who you’re going to see Sophia: but I’ve always felt like you can tell (.) which people are actually Parisian and which are tourists 10 Mike: yeah Sophia: usually cause they’ve got like (.) erm (.) camera around their necks Mike: yeah (.) selfie stick Sophia: yeah ((laughs)) selfie sticks I saw those Mike: I love those 15 Sophia:that’s brilliant (.) but I always thought like (.) Parisians stand out (.) they (.) they dress so smartly and chic Mike: yeah (.) you can tell (1) and it’s like (.) there’s a lot of different languages that you hear (.) going round as well (.) like Sophia: In Paris (.) yeah (.) yeah (.) 20 Mike:yeah (.) there’s a lot of people you don’t understand Sophia:yeah Mike:I mean like there’s (.) the majority of people (.) don’t really (.) aren’t really speaking English when you’re there (.) I find Sophia: yeah (.) yeah (.) true (1) what was your impression of erm (.) the Paris 25 (.) Parisian waiters Mike: erm (.) like I find them a little bit rude sometimes Sophia: did you Mike: yeah (.) like sometimes (.) when they know that you’re English Sophia: hmm 30 Mike:if you say (.) sometimes they’ll (.) realise that you’re English (.) and they’ll start trying to speak to you in English (.) and then if you try to Sophia: speak to them sometimes in French (.) they don’t like it oh really Mike: yeah 35 yeah (.) that’s what I felt anyway when I was in Paris 40 Sophia: Key (.) indicates a pause of less than a second (2) indicates a longer pause (number of seconds indicated) Boldindicates stressed syllables or words ((italics)) indicates contextual or additional information Sophia:cause I (.) I thought (.) I always thought that if you (.) tried to speak French to them that they (.) they’d appreciate it much more than you’d be like (.) hey (1) speak English I (.) yeah (.) I feel like sometimes (