Thursday 23 May 2024 – Afternoon
A Level English Language and Literature (EMC)
H474/01 Exploring non-fiction and spoken texts
Time allowed: 1 hour
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Read the two text extracts and answer the question.
Text A from the anthology is an extract from Captain Scott’s diary entries (March 1912) which
documents the final days of Scott’s return journey from the South Pole. The diary was discovered
alongside his body.
Text B is the start of a speech given by Sara Safari in 2017. Sara set out to be the first Iranian woman
in history to climb the Seven Summits (the highest mountain in each of the seven continents). In this
TED Talk, she describes her decision to climb the first Summit (Mount Everest) and her journey from
teaching engineering to climbing mountains.
1 Carefully read the two texts and compare the ways in which the writer in Text A and the speaker
in Text B use language to convey meaning.
In your answer you should analyse the impact that the different contexts have on language use,
including for example, mode, purpose and audience. [32]
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A Level English Language and Literature (EMC)
H474/01 Exploring non-fiction and spoken texts
Time allowed: 1 hour
Turn over
, 2
BLANK PAGE
© OCR 2024 H474/01 Jun24
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Read the two text extracts and answer the question.
Text A from the anthology is an extract from Captain Scott’s diary entries (March 1912) which
documents the final days of Scott’s return journey from the South Pole. The diary was discovered
alongside his body.
Text B is the start of a speech given by Sara Safari in 2017. Sara set out to be the first Iranian woman
in history to climb the Seven Summits (the highest mountain in each of the seven continents). In this
TED Talk, she describes her decision to climb the first Summit (Mount Everest) and her journey from
teaching engineering to climbing mountains.
1 Carefully read the two texts and compare the ways in which the writer in Text A and the speaker
in Text B use language to convey meaning.
In your answer you should analyse the impact that the different contexts have on language use,
including for example, mode, purpose and audience. [32]
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