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Paper 1, Question 1
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Practice Quickly identify four

pieces of information from
Questions the text
List four things you learn about what
The Republican sniper smiled and lifted his the sniper does.
revolver above the edge of the parapet.The
A)
distance was about fifty yards--a hard shot in
the dim light, and his right arm was paining him
like a thousand devils. He took a steady aim. B)
His hand trembled with eagerness. Pressing his
lips together, he took a deep breath through his
nostrils and fired. He was almost deafened with C)
the report and his arm shook with the recoil.
From ‘The Sniper’ by Liam OFlaherty D)

The scurrying crowd came at last to the big gate List four things you learn about the
in the wall of the doctor's house. They could doctor.
hear the splashing water and the singing of
A)
caged birds and the sweep of the long brooms
on the flagstones. And they could smell the
frying of good bacon from the doctor's house.
B)
Kino hesitated a moment. This doctor was not
of his people. Kino hesitated a moment. This
doctor was not of his people. This doctor was of
C)
a
race which for nearly four hundred years had
beaten and starved and robbed and despised
D)
Kino's race.
From ‘The Pearl’ by John Steinbeck

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Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing List four things you learn about Billy
a new navy-blue overcoat, a
new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and A)
he was feeling fine. He walked
briskly down the street. He was trying to do
everything briskly these days. B)
Briskness, he had decided, was the one
common characteristic of all successful
C)
businessmen. The big shots up at Head Office
were absolutely fantastically brisk all the time.
They were amazing. D)
From ‘The Landlady by Roald Dahl

Paper 2, Question 1
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Use the text to shade the boxes of
Practice Questions the four true statements
In London, misery is in the very air you breathe a) The writer thinks smog makes
and enters in at every pore. There is nothing London seem gloomy
more gloomy or disquieting than the aspect of
the city on a day of fog or rain or black frost. b) The author claims that the
Only succumb to its influence and your head houses resemble tombs
becomes painfully heavy, your digestion c) The narrow windows are why
sluggish, your breathing laboured for lack of
fresh air, and your whole body is overcome by
the light is so dim
fatigue. Then you are in the grip of what the d) The writer thinks London
English call “spleen”: a profound despair, helps to improve your health
unaccountable anguish, cantankerous hatred
for those one loves the best, disgust with
e) The writer believes London
everything, and an irresistible desire to end makes you love your family
one’s life by suicide. On days like this, London f) She describes Londoners as
has a terrifying face: you seem to be lost in the the dead, awaiting burial
necropolis of the world, breathing its sepulchral
air. The light is wan, the cold humid; the long g) She says that the smog
rows of identical sombre houses, each with its causes you to feel fatigued
black iron grilles and narrow windows, h) The author regards London as
resembles nothing so much as tombs stretching
to infinity, whilst between them wander corpses
an attractive city.
awaiting the hour of burial.
Other early initiatives would crumble to dust and a) Blair was happy for his party
ashes. One of the most interesting examples is to take on the Dome project,
the Dome, centrepiece of millennium
celebrations inherited from the Conservatives.
b) The Dome project would cost
Blair was initially unsure about whether to forge £1 billion.
ahead with the £1 billion gamble. He was c) Peter Mandelson and John
argued into the Dome project by Peter Prescott convinced Blair.
Mandelson who wanted to be its impresario,
and by John Prescott, who liked the new money d) The dome would help the
it would bring to a blighted part of east London. area of North London.
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 e) The cabinet were against the
Dome project.
f) The Dome would create better
transport links to the area.
Prescott suggested New Labour wouldn’t be g) The Dome can be seen
much of a government if it could not make a wherever you walk in London.
success of this. Blair agreed, though had the
Dome ever come to a cabinet vote he would h) They knocked down buildings
have lost. Architecturally the Dome was striking to build the Dome.
and elegant, a landmark for London which can
Paper 1, Question 2
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Practice Decide on the two-three quotations

you would pick, your terminology
Questions and effect.

The sniper looked at his enemy falling and he shuddered. The lust of battle died in him. He
became bitten by remorse. The sweat stood out in beads on his forehead. Weakened by his
wound and the long summer day of fasting and watching on the roof, he revolted from the sight
of the shattered mass of his dead enemy. His teeth chattered, he began to gibber to himself,
cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing everybody. From ‘The Sniper’ by Liam OFlaherty
How does the writer use language to describe the sniper’s reaction?

Quotation Terminology Effect

Green curtains (some sort of velvety material) were hanging down on either side of the window.
The flowers looked wonderful beside them. He went right up and peered through the glass into
the room, and the first thing he saw was a bright fire burning in the hearth. On the carpet in front
of the fire, a pretty little dachshund was curled up asleep with its nose tucked into its belly. The
room itself, so far as he could see in the half-darkness, was filled with pleasant furniture. There
was a baby-grand piano and a big sofa and several plump armchairs; and in one corner he
spotted a large parrot in a cage. Animals were usually a good sign in a place like this, Billy told
himself; and all in all, it looked to him as though it would be a pretty decent house to stay in.
From ‘The Landlady by Roald Dahl How does the writer use language to describe the B&B?
Quotation Terminology Effect
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 Paper 2, Question 3
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In what ways is P2Q3 different to P1Q2?

Decide on the three quotations you

Practice Question would pick, your terminology and
effect.
THE MAJORITY OF NHS NURSES FEEL UNDERPAID, OVERWORKED AND UNDERVALUED,
ACCORDING TO A SURVEY CARRIED OUT JOINTLY BY NURSING TIMES AND ITV.
More than eight of 10 nurses said they did not have enough time to give patients adequate
care and a quarter believed they had put a patient’s life at risk because they were too busy or
overworked. Staff shortages and too much paperwork were the most common factors stopping
nurses from doing their job properly, they said.
The survey results were due to be featured this week in ITV’s breakfast programme Good
Morning Britain, as part of a special edition on nursing. The findings are a stark reminder of the
everyday pressures faced by frontline nursing staff, and their view that staffing remains the key
factor in ensuring patient safety.
Despite an increasing recognition by many hospital trusts that they need to recruit more nurses,
the findings suggest there is still a long way to go. This was further confirmed last week when
persistent staff shortages were cited as a major factor for Heatherwood and Wexham Park
Hospitals Foundation Trust being placed in “special measures” by healthcare regulators.
Around two-thirds of respondents, 66%, said they worried about the level of care that their
ward, hospital or clinic could give to patients outside normal working hours. A similar
percentage said their ward, hospital or clinic could not function at night, weekends or Bank
Holidays without using agency staff. A massive 96% of respondents said there is too much
paperwork in the NHS, in spite of ongoing efforts to reduce it, for example by improving
technology, and it being a government priority that is often name-checked in ministerial
speeches.
Quotation Terminology Effect

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 Paper 2, Question 2
Question basics Question Mark Scheme
Marks available U O Q
Time spent E O R
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Practice Question Come up with a difference (this is

your topic) and then find the
evidence from each source and then
1 make a suggestion.
A message came to me to prepare for 510 More than eight of 10 nurses said they did not
wounded on our side of the Hospital who were have enough time to give patients adequate
arriving from the dreadful affair of the 5th care and a quarter believed they had put a
November from Balaklava, in which battle patient’s life at risk because they were too
were 1763 wounded and 442 killed, besides busy or overworked. Staff shortages and too
96 officers wounded and 38 killed. I always much paperwork were the most common
expected to end my Days as Hospital Matron, factors stopping nurses from doing their job
but I never expected to be Barrack Mistress. properly, they said. Around two-thirds of
We had but half an hour’s notice before they respondents, 66%, said they worried about the
began landing the wounded. Between one and level of care that their ward, hospital or clinic
9 o’clock we had the mattresses stuffed, sewn could give to patients outside normal working
up, laid down—alas! Only upon matting on the hours. A similar percentage said their ward,
floor—the men washed and put to bed, and all hospital or clinic could not function at night,
their wounds dressed. I wish I had time. We weekends or Bank Holidays without using
have our Quarters in one Tower of the agency staff. A massive 96% of respondents
Barrack, and all this fresh influx has been laid said there is too much paperwork in the NHS,
down between us and the Main Guard, in two in spite of ongoing efforts to reduce it, for
Corridors, with a line of beds down each side, example by improving technology, and it being
just room for one person to pass between, and a government priority. In addition, 76% of
four wards. Yet in the midst of this appalling survey respondents said they did not feel
horror (we are steeped up to our necks in valued by their manager and 86% said they
blood) there is some good, and I can truly say, did not get paid enough money for the job they
like St. Peter: “It is good for us to be here”— do. A possible concern is that a significant
though I doubt that if St. Peter had been here, chunk of respondents lacked confidence in
he would have said so. -1854, Florence their own work environment.
Nightingale. -2014, nursingtimes.net
Write a summary of the differences between the problems the nurses
face.
Topic Source A Source B
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 Faciliti “matting on the floor” - Suggests the working
environment has been set up suddenly,
“lacked confidence in their own work
environment” reveals the nurses are

es perhaps the nurses are concerned for the worried about the health and safety
patients’ comfort and this makes work difficult. element of their workplace.

Paper 2, Question 2
Practice Question Come up with a difference (this is
your topic) and then find the
evidence from each source and then
2 make a suggestion.
Yesterday I went for the second time to the The millennium was certainly worth
Crystal Palace. We remained in it about three celebrating. But the problem ministers and
hours, and I must say I was more struck with it their advisers could not solve was what their
on this occasion than at my first visit. It is a pleasure Dome should contain. Should it be
wonderful place—vast, strange, new, and for a great national party? Should it be
impossible to describe. Its grandeur does not educational? Beautiful? Thought-provoking? A
consist in one thing, but in the unique fun park? Nobody could decide. The Dome
assemblage of all things. Whatever human would be magnificent, unique, a tribute to
industry has created, you find there, from the daring and can-do.
great compartments filled with railway engines . When the Dome finally opened, at New Year,
and boilers, with mill-machinery in full work, the Queen, Prime Minister and hundreds of
with splendid carriages of all kinds, with donors, business people and celebrities were
harness of every description—to the glass- treated to a mishmash of a show which
covered and velvet-spread stands loaded with embarrassed many of them. Bad organization
the most gorgeous work of the goldsmith and meant most of the guests had a long, freezing
silversmith, and the carefully guarded caskets and damp wait to get in for the celebrations.
full of real diamonds and pearls worth Xanadu this was not. The fiasco meant the
hundreds of thousands of pounds. It may be Dome was roasted in most newspapers and
called a bazaar or a fair, but it is such a bazaar when it opened to the public, the range of
or fair as Eastern genii might have created. It mildly interesting exhibits was greeted as a
seems as if magic only could have gathered huge disappointment. Far fewer people came
this mass of wealth from all the ends of the and bought tickets than was hoped. It turned
earth—as if none but supernatural hands out to be a theme park without a theme,
could have arranged it thus, with such a blaze morphing in the public imagination into the
and contrast of colours and marvellous power earliest and most damaging symbol of what
of effect. The multitude filling the great aisles was wrong with New Labour: an impressively
seems ruled and subdued by some invisible constructed big tent containing not very much
influence. Amongst the thirty thousand souls at all. It was produced by some of the people
that peopled it the day I was there, not one closest to the Prime Minister and therefore
loud noise was to be heard, not one irregular boomeranged particularly badly on him and
movement seen—the living tide rolls on the group already known as ‘Tony’s cronies’.
quietly, with a deep hum like the sea heard Optimism and daring, it seemed, were not

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 enough. -2007, Andrew Marr, ‘A History of
from the distance. -1851, Bronte
Modern Britain’
Write a summary of the differences between the exhibitions
experienced.
Topic Source A Source B

Paper 1, Question 3
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Practice Use the terminology above to identify three key parts of

the text and their effect on the reader.
Question 1
The Republican sniper smiled and lifted his revolver above the edge of the parapet. The distance was about fifty
yards--a hard shot in the dim light, and his right arm was paining him like a thousand devils. He took a steady aim.
His hand trembled with eagerness. Pressing his lips together, he took a deep breath through his nostrils and fired.
He was almost deafened with the report and his arm shook with the recoil.
Then when the smoke cleared, he peered across and uttered a cry of joy. His enemy had been hit. He was
reeling over the parapet in his death agony. He struggled to keep his feet, but he was slowly falling forward as if in
a dream. The rifle fell from his grasp, hit the parapet, fell over, bounded off the pole of a barber's shop beneath and
then clattered on the pavement.
Then the dying man on the roof crumpled up and fell forward. The body turned over and over in space and hit
the ground with a dull thud. Then it lay still.
The sniper looked at his enemy falling and he shuddered. The lust of battle died in him. He became bitten by
remorse. The sweat stood out in beads on his forehead. Weakened by his wound and the long summer day of
fasting and watching on the roof, he revolted from the sight of the shattered mass of his dead enemy. His teeth
chattered, he began to gibber to himself, cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing everybody.
He looked at the smoking revolver in his hand, and with an oath he hurled it to the roof at his feet. The revolver
went off with a concussion and the bullet whizzed past the sniper's head. He was frightened back to his senses
by the shock. His nerves steadied. The cloud of fear scattered from his mind and he laughed.
Taking the whiskey flask from his pocket, he emptied it a drought. He felt reckless under the influence of the
spirit. He decided to leave the roof now and look for his company commander, to report. Everywhere around was
quiet. There was not much danger in going through the streets. He picked up his revolver and put it in his pocket.
Then he crawled down through the skylight to the house underneath.
When the sniper reached the laneway on the street level, he felt a sudden curiosity as to the identity of the

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enemy sniper whom he had killed. He decided that he was a good shot, whoever he was. He wondered did he
know him. Perhaps he had been in his own company before the split in the army. He decided to risk going over to
have a look at him. He peered around the corner into O'Connell Street. In the upperpart of the street there was
heavy firing, but around here all was quiet.
The sniper darted across the street. A machine gun tore up the ground around him with a hail of bullets, but he
escaped. He threw himself face downward beside the corpse. The machine gun stopped.
Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's face.

How has the writer structured the text to interest the

reader?
What? What? What?

Effect Effect Effect

Practice Use the terminology above to identify three key parts of

the text and their effect on the reader.
Question 2
Silence. A summer-night silence which lay for a thousand miles, which covered the earth like
a white and shadowy sea. Faster, faster! She went down the steps. Run! Only a little way,
she prayed. One hundred eight, nine, one hundred ten steps! The bottom! Now, run! Across
the bridge! She told her legs what to do, her arms, her body, her terror; she advised all parts of
herself in this white and terrible moment, over the roaring creek waters, on the hollow, thudding,
swaying almost alive, resilient bridge planks she ran, followed by the wild footsteps behind,
behind.
He’s following. Don’t turn, don’t look! If you see him, you’ll not be able to move, you’ll be so
frightened. Just run, run! She ran across the bridge. Oh, God, God, please, please let me get up
the hill! Now up the path, now between the hills, oh God, it’s dark, and everything so far away. If
I screamed now it wouldn’t help; I can’t scream anyway. Here’s the top of the path, here’s the
street, oh, God, please let me be safe, if I get home safe I’ll never go out alone; I was a fool, let
me admit it, I was a fool, I didn’t know what terror was, but if you let me get home from this I’ll
never go without Helen or Francine again! Here’s the street. Across the street! She crossed the
street and rushed up the sidewalk. Oh God, the porch! My house!
Oh God, please give me time to get inside and lock the door and I’ll be safe! And there—silly
thing to notice—why did she notice, instantly, no time, no time—but there it was anyway,
flashing by—there on the porch rail, the half-filled glass of lemonade she had abandoned a long
time, a year, half an evening ago! The lemonade glass sitting calmly, imperturbably there on the
rail . . . and . . .
She heard her clumsy feet on the porch and listened and felt her hands scrabbling and
ripping at the lock with the key. She heard her heart. She heard her inner voice screaming. The
key fit. Unlock the door, quick, quick! The door opened. Now - inside! Slam it! She slammed the
door. “Now lock it, bar it, lock it!” she gasped wretchedly. “Lock it, tight, tight!” The door was
locked and bolted tight. She listened to her heart again and the sound
of it diminishing into silence. Home! Oh God, safe at home! Safe, safe and safe at home! She
slumped against the door. Safe, safe. Listen. Not a sound. Safe, safe, oh thank God, safe at
home. I’ll never go out at night again. I’ll stay home. I won’t go over that ravine again ever. Safe,
oh safe, safe home, so good, so good, safe! Safe inside, the door locked. Wait. Look out the
window. She looked. Why, there’s no one there at all!
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 Nobody. There was nobody following me at all. Nobody running after me. She got her
breath and almost laughed at herself. It stands to reason. If a man had been following me,
he’d have caught me! I’m not a fast runner. . . . There’s no-one on the porch or in the yard. How
silly of me. I wasn’t running from anything. That ravine’s as safe as anyplace. Just the same, it’s
nice to be home. Home’s the really good warm place, the only place to be.
She put her hand out to the light switch and stopped. “What?” she asked. “What, what?”
Behind her in the living room, someone cleared his throat.
How has the writer structured the text to interest the
reader?
What? What? What?

Effect Effect Effect

Paper 1, Question 4
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Practice Split the statement into three different

points then find your analysis and effect
Question 1 for each quotation.
After dithering about like this in the cold for two or three minutes, Billy decided that he would
walk on and take a look at The Bell and Dragon pub before making up his mind. He turned to
go. And now a strange thing happened to him. He was in the act of stepping back and turning
away from the window when all at once his eye was caught and held in the most peculiar
manner by the small notice that was there. BED AND BREAKFAST, it said. BED AND
BREAKFAST,
BED AND BREAKFAST, BED AND BREAKFAST. Each word was like a large black eye staring
at him through the glass, holding him, hypnotising him, forcing him to stay where he was and
not to walk away from that house, and the next thing he knew, he was actually moving across
from the window to the front door of the house, climbing the steps that led up to it, and reaching
for the door-bell.
He pressed the bell. Far away in a back room he heard it ringing, and then at once – it must
have been at once because he hadn’t even had time to take his finger from the bell-button – the
door swung open and a woman was standing there. Now, normally you ring the door-bell and
you have at least a half-minute’s wait before the door opens. But this woman was a like a jack-
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 pressed the bell – and out she popped! It made him jump.
She was about forty-five or fifty years old, and the moment she saw him, she gave him a warm
welcoming smile. “Please come in,” she said pleasantly. She stepped aside, holding the door
wide open, and Billy found himself automatically starting forward into the house. The
compulsion or, more accurately, the desire to follow after her into the house was extraordinarily
strong. “I saw the notice in the window,” he said, holding himself back.
“Yes, I know.”
“I was wondering about a room.”
“It's all ready for you, my dear,” she said.
A student, having read this section of the text, said, “I like how the writer creates a creepy,
strange atmosphere and makes the Landlady an unusual character”. To what extent do you
agree?

Point/
Evidence

Term
Explain
Reader
Term
Explain
Reader

Paper 1, Question 4
Practice Split the statement into three different
points then find your analysis and effect
Question 2 for each quotation.
She heard her clumsy feet on the porch and listened and felt her hands scrabbling and ripping
at the lock with the key. She heard her heart. She heard her inner voice screaming. The key fit.
Unlock the door, quick, quick! The door opened. Now - inside! Slam it! She slammed the door.
“Now lock it, bar it, lock it!” she gasped wretchedly. “Lock it, tight, tight!” The door was locked
and bolted tight. She listened to her heart again and the sound
of it diminishing into silence. Home! Oh God, safe at home! Safe, safe and safe at home! She
slumped against the door. Safe, safe. Listen. Not a sound. Safe, safe, oh thank God, safe at
home. I’ll never go out at night again. I’ll stay home. I won’t go over that ravine again ever. Safe,
oh safe, safe home, so good, so good, safe! Safe inside, the door locked. Wait. Look out the
window. She looked. Why, there’s no one there at all!
Nobody. There was nobody following me at all. Nobody running after me. She got her
breath and almost laughed at herself. It stands to reason. If a man had been following me, he’d
have caught me! I’m not a fast runner. . . . There’s no-one on the porch or in the yard. How silly
of me. I wasn’t running from anything. That ravine’s as safe as anyplace. Just the same, it’s nice
to be home. Home’s the really good warm place, the only place to be.
She put her hand out to the light switch and stopped. “What?” she asked. “What, what?” Behind
her in the living room, someone cleared his throat.
A student, having read this section of the text, said, “This part is where the tension falls
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 but the reader is still nervous and worried for the main character”. To what extent do you
agree?

Point/
Evidence

Term
Explain
Reader
Term
Explain
Reader
Practice paragraph:

Paper 2, Question 4
Question basics Question Mark Scheme
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C O V

Practice Choose two ways the writer’s views are

different, then note quotations and methods.
It’s easy to start by comparing the one of each
Question 1 article – see the example below.
These poor fellows bear pain and mutilation The survey results were due to be featured
with an unshrinking heroism which is really this week in ITV’s breakfast programme Good
superhuman, and die, or are cut up without a Morning Britain, as part of a special edition on
complaint. nursing. The findings are a stark reminder of
The wounded are now lying up to our very the everyday pressures faced by frontline
door, and we are landing 540 more from the nursing staff, and their view that staffing
Andes. I remains the key factor in ensuring patient
take rank in the Army as Brigadier General, safety.Despite an increasing recognition by
because 40 British females, whom I have with many hospital trusts that they need to recruit
me, are more difficult to manage than 4000 more nurses, the findings suggest there is still

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 men. Let no lady come out here who is not
a long way to go.
used to fatigue and privation. Every ten
Meanwhile, when asked whether they would
minutes an Orderly runs, and we have to go
encourage their own child to go into nursing,
and cram lint into the wound till a Surgeon can
based on their experience, 73% of participants
be sent for, and stop the Bleeding as well as
said “no”, while only 27% answered “yes”.
we can. In all our corridor, I think we have not
Although, the survey results highlighted the
an average of three Limbs per man. And there
struggles faced by nurses, respondents
are two Ships more “loading” at the Crimea
remained positive about their motivation. One
with wounded—(this is our Phraseology). Then
nurse said: “My job is great and I love it, when
come the operations, and a melancholy, not
I am given the opportunity to do it well,” while
an encouraging List is this. They are all
another stated: “Although my responses are
performed in the wards—no time to move
negative, I love my job.” A further respondent
them; one poor fellow exhausted with
said: “Despite all the pressures, the public
hæmorrhage, has his leg amputated as a last
should understand that as nurses we do try
hope, and dies ten minutes after the Surgeon
our best.” -2014
has left him. -1854
Compare the writers’ attitudes to nursing and healthcare.
Source A Source B
Sympathetic tone “one poor fellow” – “stark reminder of the everyday

Tone she feels for the patients as a nurse

herself. Adjective “poor” reveals the
pressures” – frustrated tone, writer feels
not enough is being done. Adjective
struggles of the patients, not the nurse “stark” highlights need for change.

Paper 2, Question 4
Practice Choose three ways the writer’s views are
different, then note quotations and
methods. You could start by comparing
Question 2 the tone.
Over every English town there hangs a pall Air pollution in one of London's busiest roads
compounded of the Ocean vapours that has already exceeded the legal limit for the
perpetually shroud the British Isles, and the whole of 2015, in the space of just four days,
heavy noxious fumes of the Cyclops’ cave. No experts have warned.
longer does timber from the forests provide Campaign group Clean Air In London has
fuel for the family hearth; the fuel of Hell - coal reported that the excessive levels for nitrogen
- snatched from the very bowels of the earth, dioxide (NO2) in Oxford Street had passed the
has taken its place. It burns everywhere, limit set by the EU by January 4, the Evening
feeding countless furnaces, replacing horse- Standard has reported. Simon Birkett, founder
power on the roads and wind-power on the and director of Clean Air In London, told The
rivers and the seas which surround the Independent the EU and UK regulations
empire. limited NO2 levels so they must not exceed
Above the monster city a dense fog combines 200 micrograms per cubic metre for more than
with the volume of smoke and soot belching 18 hours in an entire year. But Mr Birkett said
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 from thousands of chimneys to wrap London in
a black cloud which allows only the dimmest Oxford Street had already reached 19 hours in
light to penetrate and shrouds everything in a excess of the limit by January 4, while Putney
funeral veil. High Street also passed the limit yesterday.
In London, misery is in the very air you According to statistics supplied by Clean Air In
breathe and enters in at every pore. There is London, in 2014 Oxford Street clocked up
nothing more gloomy or disquieting than the 1,361 hours where the NO2 levels were
aspect of the city on a day of fog or rain or exceeded. Putney High Street meanwhile saw
black frost. a total of 999 hours where the levels were
On such black days the Englishman is under exceeded. The road with the highest number
the spell of his climate and behaves like a of hours where NO2 levels were exceeded in
brute beast to anybody who crosses his path, 2014 was Brixton Road, with 1,732 hours.
giving and receiving knocks without a word of In November, the Government's scientific
apology on either side. A poor old man may advisors were reported to be set to warn that
collapse from starvation in the street, but the air pollution, largely from diesel vehicle road
Englishman will not stop to help him. He goes traffic, may be to blame for as many as 60,000
about his business and spares no thought for early deaths in Britain each year. -2015
anything else. -1839, Flora Tristan
Compare the writers’ attitudes to pollution and the impacts of pollution
Source A Source B

Paper 1, Question 5
Question basics Question Mark Scheme
Marks available Marks for C +O
Time spent Marks for T A
Question focus CO: P ,V +D
TA: S ,P +G

Practice
Using this picture, complete a practice plan below.
Remember the paragraph types: atmosphere,
surroundings, people, zoom in, zoom out OR

Question simply choose four elements in the picture to focus

on.

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 Write a description suggested by this picture or write the opening of a story in a
strange place

Paper 2, Question 5
In what ways is P2Q5 different to P1Q5?

In what ways is the mark scheme different?

Using this picture, complete a practice plan below.

Practice Remember the paragraph types: anecdote, research,
counter-argument, rhetorical challenge or other

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 Question paragraphs –only argue for OR against!

“People should have to pay for the healthcare they receive. If you had to pay to visit a GP
or hospital, people wouldn’t do it so quickly and therefore the pressures on the NHS
would start to ease”.
Write a speech giving your argument for or against this statement.

“The Government need to be doing more to stop the pollution in our bigger cities. Perhaps
they should look into better energy options” Write an article giving your view for or
against this statement.

Extra Revision Notes

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 Make a note here of anything you need to focus on in your own revision. If you find
anything difficult, make a note here to come back to it.

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