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GCSE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing
Thursday 23 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes
Materials
For Examiner’s Use
For this paper you must have:
• Source A – provided as a separate insert.
Question Mark
Instructions
1
• Answer all questions.
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. 2
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. 3
• Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages. 4
• If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end of
this book. Write the question number against your answer(s). 5
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to be
TOTAL
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 for 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 be assessed on the quality of your reading in Section A.
• You will be 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 are advised to plan your answer to Question 5 before you start to write.
• You should make sure you leave sufficient time to check your answers.
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, 2
Do not write
outside the
Section A: Reading box
Answer all questions in this section.
You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on this section.
0 1 Read again the first part of the source from lines 1 to 6.
List four things about Mary from this part of the source.
[4 marks]
1
2
3
4
4
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, 3
Do not write
outside the
0 2 box
Look in detail at this extract, from lines 7 to 17 of the source:
As time passed, the heat became an obsession. Outside, there was a rough heap of
giant boulders, and she would watch the heat-waves beat up out of the hot stone,
where the heat lizards, vivid red and blue and emerald, darted over the rocks like
flames. Inside, she could not bear the sapping, undermining waves that beat down
from the iron roof. Even the usually active dogs used to lie all day on the verandah.
Mary could hear them panting softly, or whining with exasperation because of the
flies. She would lock them out of the house, and in the middle of the morning she
would tell a worker to carry a petrol tin full of lukewarm water into the bedroom, and,
having made sure he was out of the house, she stood in a basin on the brick floor,
pouring it over her. The scattering drops fell on the porous brick, which hissed with
dryness.
How does the writer use language here to describe the effects of the heat?
You could include the writer’s choice of:
• words and phrases
• language features and techniques
• sentence forms.
[8 marks]
Turn over ►
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IB/G/Jun24/8700/1
Centre number Candidate number
Surname
Forename(s)
Candidate signature
I declare this is my own work.
GCSE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing
Thursday 23 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes
Materials
For Examiner’s Use
For this paper you must have:
• Source A – provided as a separate insert.
Question Mark
Instructions
1
• Answer all questions.
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. 2
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. 3
• Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages. 4
• If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end of
this book. Write the question number against your answer(s). 5
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to be
TOTAL
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 for 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 be assessed on the quality of your reading in Section A.
• You will be 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 are advised to plan your answer to Question 5 before you start to write.
• You should make sure you leave sufficient time to check your answers.
*JUN248700101*
IB/G/Jun24/G4005/E6 8700/1
, 2
Do not write
outside the
Section A: Reading box
Answer all questions in this section.
You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on this section.
0 1 Read again the first part of the source from lines 1 to 6.
List four things about Mary from this part of the source.
[4 marks]
1
2
3
4
4
*02*
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, 3
Do not write
outside the
0 2 box
Look in detail at this extract, from lines 7 to 17 of the source:
As time passed, the heat became an obsession. Outside, there was a rough heap of
giant boulders, and she would watch the heat-waves beat up out of the hot stone,
where the heat lizards, vivid red and blue and emerald, darted over the rocks like
flames. Inside, she could not bear the sapping, undermining waves that beat down
from the iron roof. Even the usually active dogs used to lie all day on the verandah.
Mary could hear them panting softly, or whining with exasperation because of the
flies. She would lock them out of the house, and in the middle of the morning she
would tell a worker to carry a petrol tin full of lukewarm water into the bedroom, and,
having made sure he was out of the house, she stood in a basin on the brick floor,
pouring it over her. The scattering drops fell on the porous brick, which hissed with
dryness.
How does the writer use language here to describe the effects of the heat?
You could include the writer’s choice of:
• words and phrases
• language features and techniques
• sentence forms.
[8 marks]
Turn over ►
*03*
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