Edexcel English Language Paper 2 Model Answers 2017-2018-19

Edexcel English Language Paper 2 Model Answers 2017

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Edexcel English Language Paper 2 Model Questions and Answers 2017-2018-19

GCSE English Language Edexcel: Paper 2: Question 1

1. From lines 6 - 10, give two examples that show how children are making clothing for western consumers. 

1.

2.

(Total for Question 1 = 2 marks)

TEXT 1:

Admit it.  You love cheap clothes.  And you don’t care about child slave labour 

by Gethin Chamberlain

Despite a series of revelations for The Observer about the brutal conditions in garment factories, companies, western consumers and India are still complicit in turning a blind eye.

Drive east out of Delhi for an hour or so into the industrial wasteland of Ghaziabad and take a stroll down some of the back lanes.  You might want to watch your step, to avoid falling into the stinking open drains.  Take a look through some of the doorways.  See the children stitching the fine embroidery and beading?  Now take a stroll through your favorite mall and have a look at the shelves.  Recognize some of that handiwork?  You should.

Suppliers now subcontract work out from the main factory, maybe more than once.  The work is done out of sight, the pieces sent back to the main factory to be finished and labelled.  And when the auditors come round the factory, they can say that there were no children and all was well.  Because audits are part of the act.  Often it is as simple as two sets of books, one for the brand, one for themselves.  The brand’s books say everyone works eight hours a day with a lunch break.  The real books show the profits from 16-hour days and no days off all month.

Need fire extinguishers to tick the safety box?  Hire them in for the day.  The lift is a death trap? Stick a sign on it to say it is out of use and the inspector will pass it by.  The dark arts thrive in the inspection business.  

We, the consumers, let them do this because we want the shiny, pretty thing.  And we grumble that times are tight, we can’t be expected to pay more and, anyway, those places are very cheap to live in.

GCSE English Language Edexcel: Paper 2: Question 2

2. Give one example from lines 1 to 5 of how Chamberlain uses language to reflect Western consumers’ attitudes towards ‘Child Slave Labour’.

(Total for Question 2 = 2 marks)

TEXT 1:

Admit it.  You love cheap clothes.  And you don’t care about child slave labour 

by Gethin Chamberlain

Despite a series of revelations for The Observer about the brutal conditions in garment factories, companies, western consumers and India are still complicit in turning a blind eye.

Drive east out of Delhi for an hour or so into the industrial wasteland of Ghaziabad and take a stroll down some of the back lanes.  You might want to watch your step, to avoid falling into the stinking open drains.  Take a look through some of the doorways.  See the children stitching the fine embroidery and beading?  Now take a stroll through your favourite mall and have a look at the shelves.  Recognise some of that handiwork?  You should.

Suppliers now subcontract work out from the main factory, maybe more than once.  The work is done out of sight, the pieces sent back to the main factory to be finished and labelled.  And when the auditors come round the factory, they can say that there were no children and all was well.  Because audits are part of the act.  Often it is as simple as two sets of books, one for the brand, one for themselves.  The brand’s books say everyone works eight hours a day with a lunch break.  The real books show the profits from 16-hour days and no days off all month.

Need fire extinguishers to tick the safety box?  Hire them in for the day.  The lift is a death-trap? Stick a sign on it to say it is out of use and the inspector will pass it by.  The dark arts thrive in the inspection business.  

We, the consumers, let them do this because we want the shiny, pretty thing.  And we grumble that times are tight, we can’t be expected to pay more and, anyway, those places are very cheap to live in.

Edexcel GCSE English Language: Paper 2 - Question 3

3. Analyse how the writer uses language and structure to engage the reader.

Support your views with reference to the text. 

(Total for Question 3 = 15 marks)

TEXT 1:

Admit it.  You love cheap clothes.  And you don’t care about child slave labour 

by Gethin Chamberlain

Despite a series of revelations for The Observer about the brutal conditions in garment factories, companies, western consumers and India are still complicit in turning a blind eye.

Drive east out of Delhi for an hour or so into the industrial wasteland of Ghaziabad and take a stroll down some of the back lanes.  You might want to watch your step, to avoid falling into the stinking open drains.  Take a look through some of the doorways.  See the children stitching the fine embroidery and beading?  Now take a stroll through your favourite mall and have a look at the shelves.  Recognise some of that handiwork?  You should.

Suppliers now subcontract work out from the main factory, maybe more than once.  The work is done out of sight, the pieces sent back to the main factory to be finished and labelled.  And when the auditors come round the factory, they can say that there were no children and all was well.  Because audits are part of the act.  Often it is as simple as two sets of books, one for the brand, one for themselves.  The brand’s books say everyone works eight hours a day with a lunch break.  The real books show the profits from 16-hour days and no days off all month.

Need fire extinguishers to tick the safety box?  Hire them in for the day.  The lift is a death-trap? Stick a sign on it to say it is out of use and the inspector will pass it by.  The dark arts thrive in the inspection business.  

We, the consumers, let them do this because we want the shiny, pretty thing.  And we grumble that times are tight, we can’t be expected to pay more and, anyway, those places are very cheap to live in.

GCSE English Language - Edexcel Paper 2: Question 4

Read Text 2, then answer Questions 4 – 6.

4. From lines 1 – 9, identify one reason why Mustoe is shocked at by the poverty she sees.

(Total for Question 4 = 1 mark)

Text 2:

In 1992 the writer, Anne Mustoe, cycled through India.  Here she has reached Bombay. Source: ‘Two Wheels in the Dust’, an extract from a non-fiction book by Anne Mustoe 

Two Wheels in the Dust

The starving millions of India overwhelmed me as I cycled through the outskirts of Bombay.  As India’s boom city, it draws the poor like a magnet from the countryside.  Many of them end up sleeping on the streets in utter destitution, while others live in cardboard and sacking shacks on waste ground further out.  The ones who succeed in scratching a living move into shantytowns. There, they settle among the rubbish tips, by some fetid black stream, and build their hovels of mud or packing cases, roofed with corrugated iron.  Until I cycled through them, I would never have believed that people could survive in such abject conditions.  On the waste ground, they were filthy and bedraggled, starvelings without hope.  But when I got to the shantytowns, I noticed a difference in the air.  By some miracle of ingenuity, families emerged from their hovels looking neat and clean.  There was faltering electricity and even a few television aerials.  These people were on their way up in the world.  As I approached the city from Thane, I passed through every gradation of poverty. People stared at me, but nowhere did I meet with hostility.  I was not a voyeur.  I was a cyclist.  And I didn’t take photographs.

To keep your sanity in India, you have to switch off from the poverty and squalor, because there’s nothing you can do about it.  Until the Indians control their population growth, and until their amazingly wealthy minority takes more responsibility for the welfare of the majority, they will never be able to raise their standard of living.  The population has more than doubled since Independence and the infrastructure left by the British is crumbling under the weight of numbers.  Government schemes for education and welfare drown in the sea of children.  Although they educate more of them each year, the proportion of illiterates grows. Meanwhile, corruption in many states syphons off what little money is available.

So not through callousness, but as a kind of self-protection, I averted my eyes from the beggars and street-dwellers when I went for a stroll along Strand Road to Apollo Bunder.  The evening air was balmy and there was a sliver of new moon.  Peanut-vendors, snake-charmers and performing monkeys clustered round the Gateway of India and along the harbour walls. India’s most famous hotel, the Taj Mahal, blazed with lights at one end of the promenade, while a dance at the Yacht Club lit up the other.  Families were out enjoying the cool of the evening.  Some were Indian, but they were almost outnumbered by the white-clad armies of Arabs, who flock to Bombay with their wives and children for business, liquor and shopping.  It was all very cosmopolitan, even Mediterranean, and I felt really at home there. To complete my enjoyment, I went to Leopold’s, the tourist hang-out on Colaba Causeway, for a plate of fish and chips – a gastronomic delight after six weeks of curry!

Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2: Question 5

5. Give one example from lines 15 - 20 of how Mustoe uses language to show the extent of the problem.

(Total for Question 5 = 1 mark)

Text 2:

In 1992 the writer, Anne Mustoe, cycled through India.  Here she has reached Bombay. Source: ‘Two Wheels in the Dust’, an extract from a non-fiction book by Anne Mustoe 

Two Wheels in the Dust

The starving millions of India overwhelmed me as I cycled through the outskirts of Bombay.  As India’s boom city, it draws the poor like a magnet from the countryside.  Many of them end up sleeping on the streets in utter destitution, while others live in cardboard and sacking shacks on waste ground further out.  The ones who succeed in scratching a living move into shantytowns. There, they settle among the rubbish tips, by some fetid black stream, and build their hovels of mud or packing cases, roofed with corrugated iron.  Until I cycled through them, I would never have believed that people could survive in such abject conditions.  On the waste ground, they were filthy and bedraggled, starvelings without hope.  But when I got to the shantytowns, I noticed a difference in the air.  By some miracle of ingenuity, families emerged from their hovels looking neat and clean.  There was faltering electricity and even a few television aerials.  These people were on their way up in the world.  As I approached the city from Thane, I passed through every gradation of poverty. People stared at me, but nowhere did I meet with hostility.  I was not a voyeur.  I was a cyclist.  And I didn’t take photographs.

To keep your sanity in India, you have to switch off from the poverty and squalor, because there’s nothing you can do about it.  Until the Indians control their population growth, and until their amazingly wealthy minority takes more responsibility for the welfare of the majority, they will never be able to raise their standard of living.  The population has more than doubled since Independence and the infrastructure left by the British is crumbling under the weight of numbers.  Government schemes for education and welfare drown in the sea of children.  Although they educate more of them each year, the proportion of illiterates grows. Meanwhile, corruption in many states syphons off what little money is available.

So not through callousness, but as a kind of self-protection, I averted my eyes from the beggars and street-dwellers when I went for a stroll along Strand Road to Apollo Bunder.  The evening air was balmy and there was a sliver of new moon.  Peanut-vendors, snake-charmers and performing monkeys clustered round the Gateway of India and along the harbour walls. India’s most famous hotel, the Taj Mahal, blazed with lights at one end of the promenade, while a dance at the Yacht Club lit up the other.  Families were out enjoying the cool of the evening.  Some were Indian, but they were almost outnumbered by the white-clad armies of Arabs, who flock to Bombay with their wives and children for business, liquor and shopping.  It was all very cosmopolitan, even Mediterranean, and I felt really at home there. To complete my enjoyment, I went to Leopold’s, the tourist hang-out on Colaba Causeway, for a plate of fish and chips – a gastronomic delight after six weeks of curry!

Edexcel GCSE English Language - Paper 2 Question 6

6. In this extract, Mustoe attempts to show two different sides of India.

Evaluate how successfully this is achieved. Support your views with detailed reference to the text. 

(Total for Question 6 = 15 marks)

Text 2:

In 1992 the writer, Anne Mustoe, cycled through India.  Here she has reached Bombay. Source: ‘Two Wheels in the Dust’, an extract from a non-fiction book by Anne Mustoe 

Two Wheels in the Dust

The starving millions of India overwhelmed me as I cycled through the outskirts of Bombay.  As India’s boom city, it draws the poor like a magnet from the countryside.  Many of them end up sleeping on the streets in utter destitution, while others live in cardboard and sacking shacks on waste ground further out.  The ones who succeed in scratching a living move into shantytowns. There, they settle among the rubbish tips, by some fetid black stream, and build their hovels of mud or packing cases, roofed with corrugated iron.  Until I cycled through them, I would never have believed that people could survive in such abject conditions.  On the waste ground, they were filthy and bedraggled, starvelings without hope.  But when I got to the shantytowns, I noticed a difference in the air.  By some miracle of ingenuity, families emerged from their hovels looking neat and clean.  There was faltering electricity and even a few television aerials.  These people were on their way up in the world.  As I approached the city from Thane, I passed through every gradation of poverty. People stared at me, but nowhere did I meet with hostility.  I was not a voyeur.  I was a cyclist.  And I didn’t take photographs.

To keep your sanity in India, you have to switch off from the poverty and squalor, because there’s nothing you can do about it.  Until the Indians control their population growth, and until their amazingly wealthy minority takes more responsibility for the welfare of the majority, they will never be able to raise their standard of living.  The population has more than doubled since Independence and the infrastructure left by the British is crumbling under the weight of numbers.  Government schemes for education and welfare drown in the sea of children.  Although they educate more of them each year, the proportion of illiterates grows. Meanwhile, corruption in many states syphons off what little money is available.

So not through callousness, but as a kind of self-protection, I averted my eyes from the beggars and street-dwellers when I went for a stroll along Strand Road to Apollo Bunder.  The evening air was balmy and there was a sliver of new moon.  Peanut-vendors, snake-charmers and performing monkeys clustered round the Gateway of India and along the harbour walls. India’s most famous hotel, the Taj Mahal, blazed with lights at one end of the promenade, while a dance at the Yacht Club lit up the other.  Families were out enjoying the cool of the evening.  Some were Indian, but they were almost outnumbered by the white-clad armies of Arabs, who flock to Bombay with their wives and children for business, liquor and shopping.  It was all very cosmopolitan, even Mediterranean, and I felt really at home there. To complete my enjoyment, I went to Leopold’s, the tourist hang-out on Colaba Causeway, for a plate of fish and chips – a gastronomic delight after six weeks of curry!

Edexcel GCSE English Language - Paper 2: Question 7 a

7. (a) The two texts describe inequality and the impact of poverty.

Identify the similarities between Chamberlain and Mustoe. Use evidence from both texts to support your answer. 

(Total for Question 7a = 6 marks)

Text 2

In 1992 the writer, Anne Mustoe, cycled through India.  Here she has reached Bombay. Source: ‘Two Wheels in the Dust’, an extract from a non-fiction book by Anne Mustoe 

Two Wheels in the Dust

The starving millions of India overwhelmed me as I cycled through the outskirts of Bombay.  As India’s boom city, it draws the poor like a magnet from the countryside.  Many of them end up sleeping on the streets in utter destitution, while others live in cardboard and sacking shacks on waste ground further out.  The ones who succeed in scratching a living move into shantytowns. There, they settle among the rubbish tips, by some fetid black stream, and build their hovels of mud or packing cases, roofed with corrugated iron.  Until I cycled through them, I would never have believed that people could survive in such abject conditions.  On the waste ground, they were filthy and bedraggled, starvelings without hope.  But when I got to the shantytowns, I noticed a difference in the air.  By some miracle of ingenuity, families emerged from their hovels looking neat and clean.  There was faltering electricity and even a few television aerials.  These people were on their way up in the world.  As I approached the city from Thane, I passed through every gradation of poverty. People stared at me, but nowhere did I meet with hostility.  I was not a voyeur.  I was a cyclist.  And I didn’t take photographs.

To keep your sanity in India, you have to switch off from the poverty and squalor, because there’s nothing you can do about it.  Until the Indians control their population growth, and until their amazingly wealthy minority takes more responsibility for the welfare of the majority, they will never be able to raise their standard of living.  The population has more than doubled since Independence and the infrastructure left by the British is crumbling under the weight of numbers.  Government schemes for education and welfare drown in the sea of children.  Although they educate more of them each year, the proportion of illiterates grows. Meanwhile, corruption in many states syphons off what little money is available.

So not through callousness, but as a kind of self-protection, I averted my eyes from the beggars and street-dwellers when I went for a stroll along Strand Road to Apollo Bunder.  The evening air was balmy and there was a sliver of new moon.  Peanut-vendors, snake-charmers and performing monkeys clustered round the Gateway of India and along the harbour walls. India’s most famous hotel, the Taj Mahal, blazed with lights at one end of the promenade, while a dance at the Yacht Club lit up the other.  Families were out enjoying the cool of the evening.  Some were Indian, but they were almost outnumbered by the white-clad armies of Arabs, who flock to Bombay with their wives and children for business, liquor and shopping.  It was all very cosmopolitan, even Mediterranean, and I felt really at home there. To complete my enjoyment, I went to Leopold’s, the tourist hang-out on Colaba Causeway, for a plate of fish and chips – a gastronomic delight after six weeks of curry!

Edexcel GCSE English Language - Paper 2: Question 7 b

(b) Compare how the writers of Text 1 and Text 2 present their ideas and perspectives regarding poverty and responsibility. 

Support your answer with detailed reference to the texts.

(Total for Question 7b = 14 marks)

Text 2

In 1992 the writer, Anne Mustoe, cycled through India.  Here she has reached Bombay. Source: ‘Two Wheels in the Dust’, an extract from a non-fiction book by Anne Mustoe 

Two Wheels in the Dust

The starving millions of India overwhelmed me as I cycled through the outskirts of Bombay.  As India’s boom city, it draws the poor like a magnet from the countryside.  Many of them end up sleeping on the streets in utter destitution, while others live in cardboard and sacking shacks on waste ground further out.  The ones who succeed in scratching a living move into shantytowns. There, they settle among the rubbish tips, by some fetid black stream, and build their hovels of mud or packing cases, roofed with corrugated iron.  Until I cycled through them, I would never have believed that people could survive in such abject conditions.  On the waste ground, they were filthy and bedraggled, starvelings without hope.  But when I got to the shantytowns, I noticed a difference in the air.  By some miracle of ingenuity, families emerged from their hovels looking neat and clean.  There was faltering electricity and even a few television aerials.  These people were on their way up in the world.  As I approached the city from Thane, I passed through every gradation of poverty. People stared at me, but nowhere did I meet with hostility.  I was not a voyeur.  I was a cyclist.  And I didn’t take photographs.

To keep your sanity in India, you have to switch off from the poverty and squalor, because there’s nothing you can do about it.  Until the Indians control their population growth, and until their amazingly wealthy minority takes more responsibility for the welfare of the majority, they will never be able to raise their standard of living.  The population has more than doubled since Independence and the infrastructure left by the British is crumbling under the weight of numbers.  Government schemes for education and welfare drown in the sea of children.  Although they educate more of them each year, the proportion of illiterates grows. Meanwhile, corruption in many states syphons off what little money is available.

So not through callousness, but as a kind of self-protection, I averted my eyes from the beggars and street-dwellers when I went for a stroll along Strand Road to Apollo Bunder.  The evening air was balmy and there was a sliver of new moon.  Peanut-vendors, snake-charmers and performing monkeys clustered round the Gateway of India and along the harbour walls. India’s most famous hotel, the Taj Mahal, blazed with lights at one end of the promenade, while a dance at the Yacht Club lit up the other.  Families were out enjoying the cool of the evening.  Some were Indian, but they were almost outnumbered by the white-clad armies of Arabs, who flock to Bombay with their wives and children for business, liquor and shopping.  It was all very cosmopolitan, even Mediterranean, and I felt really at home there. To complete my enjoyment, I went to Leopold’s, the tourist hang-out on Colaba Causeway, for a plate of fish and chips – a gastronomic delight after six weeks of curry!

Edexcel English Language Paper 2 Model Answers 2018-19

Edexcel GCSE English Language - Paper 2: Question 1

1. From the opening paragraph and closing paragraph, give two examples that show Bear Grylls has a reputation for being adventurous. 

1.

2.

(Total for Question 1 = 2 marks)

TEXT 1:

 Bear Grylls grilled by the council over cliffside slide 

A slide pinned to a cliff face that shoots users into the sea - as long as the tide is in - has landed adventurer Bear Grylls in hot water. 

by Lewis Smith 

The television survivalist for whom grappling with crocodiles and venomous snakes is all in a day’s work now finds himself facing a more mundane but potentially more successful challenger, the local planning officials. 

Chief Scout Grylls provoked the interest of the authorities when he cheerfully tweeted a picture of a slide that had just been installed on the island he owns off the coast of North Wales.

 “New slide attached at home on our island! You hit the water very fast!!!” he enthused. 

The slide, however, has prompted concerns about safety because it can only be used for two hours a day when the tide is in, and about planning regulations, because it is in a designated area of outstanding natural beauty.

Officials from Gwynedd Council are now investigating whether Grylls has breached any planning rules by installing the slide on St Tudwal’s Island West, off Abersoch. “Officers from the Council’s Planning Service are investigating this case and will be discussing the matter with the site owner,” said a spokesman for the council. 

Grylls won himself a reputation as an adventurer and the all-round tough guy of choice while presenting television shows including Born Survivor and Man Vs Wild. He was first offered a presenting role after becoming, at the age of 23, one of the youngest people ever to have scaled Mount Everest. He has since broken records for skydiving and high altitude ballooning.

Edexcel GCSE English Language - Paper 2: Question 2

2. Give one example from lines 1 to 15 of how Smith uses language to reflect Bear’s positive attitude towards the slide: 

Example from the text: 

(1)

How the writer uses language in your example: 

(1)

(Total for Question 2 = 2 marks)

TEXT 1:

 Bear Grylls grilled by the council over cliffside slide 

A slide pinned to a cliff face that shoots users into the sea - as long as the tide is in - has landed adventurer Bear Grylls in hot water. 

by Lewis Smith 

The television survivalist for whom grappling with crocodiles and venomous snakes is all in a day’s work now finds himself facing a more mundane but potentially more successful challenger, the local planning officials. 

Chief Scout Grylls provoked the interest of the authorities when he cheerfully tweeted a picture of a slide that had just been installed on the island he owns off the coast of North Wales.

 “New slide attached at home on our island! You hit the water very fast!!!” he enthused. 

The slide, however, has prompted concerns about safety because it can only be used for two hours a day when the tide is in, and about planning regulations, because it is in a designated area of outstanding natural beauty.

Officials from Gwynedd Council are now investigating whether Grylls has breached any planning rules by installing the slide on St Tudwal’s Island West, off Abersoch. “Officers from the Council’s Planning Service are investigating this case and will be discussing the matter with the site owner,” said a spokesman for the council. 

Grylls won himself a reputation as an adventurer and the all-around tough guy of choice while presenting television shows including Born Survivor and Man Vs Wild. He was first offered a presenting role after becoming, at the age of 23, one of the youngest people ever to have scaled Mount Everest. He has since broken records for skydiving and high altitude ballooning.

Edexcel GCSE English Language - Paper 2: Question 3

3. Analyse how the writer uses language and structure to engage the reader.

Support your views with reference to the text. 

(Total for Question 3 = 15 marks)

TEXT 1:

 Bear Grylls grilled by the council over cliffside slide 

A slide pinned to a cliff face that shoots users into the sea - as long as the tide is in - has landed adventurer Bear Grylls in hot water. 

by Lewis Smith 

The television survivalist for whom grappling with crocodiles and venomous snakes is all in a day’s work now finds himself facing a more mundane but potentially more successful challenger, the local planning officials. 

Chief Scout Grylls provoked the interest of the authorities when he cheerfully tweeted a picture of a slide that had just been installed on the island he owns off the coast of North Wales.

 “New slide attached at home on our island! You hit the water very fast!!!” he enthused. 

The slide, however, has prompted concerns about safety because it can only be used for two hours a day when the tide is in, and about planning regulations, because it is in a designated area of outstanding natural beauty.

Officials from Gwynedd Council are now investigating whether Grylls has breached any planning rules by installing the slide on St Tudwal’s Island West, off Abersoch. “Officers from the Council’s Planning Service are investigating this case and will be discussing the matter with the site owner,” said a spokesman for the council. 

Grylls won himself a reputation as an adventurer and the all-around tough guy of choice while presenting television shows including Born Survivor and Man Vs Wild. He was first offered a presenting role after becoming, at the age of 23, one of the youngest people ever to have scaled Mount Everest. He has since broken records for skydiving and high altitude ballooning.

Edexcel GCSE English Language - Paper 2: Question 4

From lines 1 – 9, identify one reason why Chichester is uncomfortable on the yacht.

(Total for Question 4 = 1 mark)

TEXT 2: 

Francis Chichester, whilst sailing alone around the world in his yacht Gypsy Moth, describes a night off the coast of Australia.

CAPSIZE 

That Monday night was as foul and black a night as you could meet at sea. Although it was pitch dark, the white breakers showed in the blackness like monstrous beasts charging down on the yacht. They towered high in the sky, I wouldn’t blame anyone for being terrified at the sight. My light showed up the breaking water, white in the black darkness, and now and then a wave caught the hull and, breaking against it, sluiced over the decks. As I worked my way along the deck I was feeling ghastly, I thought due to seasickness. When I got below and had stripped off my oilskins I rolled into my bunk and put all the lights out. The bunk was the only place where one could wait below, for it was difficult to stand up. However, lying on my back in the bunk, I dropped into a fitful sleep. 

I think I was awake when the boat began to roll over. If not, I woke immediately she started to do so. Perhaps when the wave hit her I woke. It was pitch dark. As she started rolling I said to myself, “Over she goes!” I was not frightened, but intensely alert and curious. Then a lot of crashing and banging started, and my head and shoulders were being bombarded with crockery and cutlery and bottles. I had an oppressive feeling of the boat being on top of me. I wondered if she would roll over completely, and what the damage would be; but she came up quietly the same side that she had gone down. I reached up and put my bunk light on. It worked, giving me a curious feeling of something normal in a world of utter chaos.

 I have only a confused idea of what I did for the next hour or so. I had an absolutely hopeless feeling when I looked at the pile of jumbled-up food and gear all along with the cabin. Anything that was in my way when I wanted to move I think I put back in its right place, though feeling as I did so that it was a waste of time as she would probably go over again. The cabin was two feet deep all along with a jumbled-up pile of hundreds of tins, bottles, tools, shackles, blocks, and oddments. Every settee locker, the whole starboard bunk, and the three starboard drop lockers had all emptied out when she was upside down. Water was swishing about on the cabin floor beside the chart table, but not much. I looked into the hull which is five feet deep, but it was not quite full, for which I thought, “Thank God.”

I must have got out on deck to pump the water below the level of the batteries. The important thing was that the masts were standing, and the rigging appeared undamaged. I think it was then that I said to myself, “To hell with everything” and decided to have asleep. I emptied my bunk of plates, cutlery, and bottles. One serrated-edged knife was embedded close to where my head had been, and I thought how lucky I was. My bunk was soaking wet, but I did not give a damn how wet it was. I turned in and was soon fast asleep. I slept soundly till daylight.

Edexcel GCSE English Language - Paper 2: Question 5

'That Monday night was as foul and black a night as you could meet at sea. Although it was pitch dark, the white breakers showed in the blackness like monstrous beasts charging down on the yacht. They towered high in the sky, I wouldn’t blame anyone for being terrified at the sight.'

In this example, from lines 2 – 4 how does the writer use language to show that Chichester was afraid?

(Total for Question 5 = 1 mark)

TEXT 2: 

Francis Chichester, whilst sailing alone around the world in his yacht Gypsy Moth, describes a night off the coast of Australia.

CAPSIZE 

That Monday night was as foul and black a night as you could meet at sea. Although it was pitch dark, the white breakers showed in the blackness like monstrous beasts charging down on the yacht. They towered high in the sky, I wouldn’t blame anyone for being terrified at the sight. My light showed up the breaking water, white in the black darkness, and now and then a wave caught the hull and, breaking against it, sluiced over the decks. As I worked my way along the deck I was feeling ghastly, I thought due to seasickness. When I got below and had stripped off my oilskins I rolled into my bunk and put all the lights out. The bunk was the only place where one could wait below, for it was difficult to stand up. However, lying on my back in the bunk, I dropped into a fitful sleep. 

I think I was awake when the boat began to roll over. If not, I woke immediately she started to do so. Perhaps when the wave hit her I woke. It was pitch dark. As she started rolling I said to myself, “Over she goes!” I was not frightened, but intensely alert and curious. Then a lot of crashing and banging started, and my head and shoulders were being bombarded with crockery and cutlery, and bottles. I had an oppressive feeling of the boat being on top of me. I wondered if she would roll over completely, and what the damage would be; but she came up quietly on the same side that she had gone down. I reached up and put my bunk light on. It worked, giving me a curious feeling of something normal in a world of utter chaos.

 I have only a confused idea of what I did for the next hour or so. I had an absolutely hopeless feeling when I looked at the pile of jumbled-up food and gear all along with the cabin. Anything that was in my way when I wanted to move I think I put back in its right place, though feeling as I did so that it was a waste of time as she would probably go over again. The cabin was two feet deep all along with a jumbled-up pile of hundreds of tins, bottles, tools, shackles, blocks, and oddments. Every settee locker, the whole starboard bunk, and the three starboard drop lockers had all emptied out when she was upside down. Water was swishing about on the cabin floor beside the chart table, but not much. I looked into the hull which is five feet deep, but it was not quite full, for which I thought, “Thank God.”

I must have got out on deck to pump the water below the level of the batteries. The important thing was that the masts were standing, and the rigging appeared undamaged. I think it was then that I said to myself, “To hell with everything” and decided to have asleep. I emptied my bunk of plates, cutlery and bottles. One serrated-edged knife was embedded close to where my head had been, and I thought how lucky I was. My bunk was soaking wet, but I did not give a damn how wet it was. I turned in, and was soon fast asleep. I slept soundly till daylight.

Edexcel GCSE English Language - Paper 2: Question 6

In this extract, Chichester attempts to show the dramatic nature of being out at sea.

Evaluate how successfully this is achieved. Support your views with detailed references to the text. 

(Total for Question 6 = 15 marks)

TEXT 2: 

Francis Chichester, whilst sailing alone around the world in his yacht Gypsy Moth, describes a night off the coast of Australia.

CAPSIZE 

That Monday night was as foul and black a night as you could meet at sea. Although it was pitch dark, the white breakers showed in the blackness like monstrous beasts charging down on the yacht. They towered high in the sky, I wouldn’t blame anyone for being terrified at the sight. My light showed up the breaking water, white in the black darkness, and now and then a wave caught the hull and, breaking against it, sluiced over the decks. As I worked my way along the deck I was feeling ghastly, I thought due to seasickness. When I got below and had stripped off my oilskins I rolled into my bunk and put all the lights out. The bunk was the only place where one could wait below, for it was difficult to stand up. However, lying on my back in the bunk, I dropped into a fitful sleep. 

I think I was awake when the boat began to roll over. If not, I woke immediately she started to do so. Perhaps when the wave hit her I woke. It was pitch dark. As she started rolling I said to myself, “Over she goes!” I was not frightened, but intensely alert and curious. Then a lot of crashing and banging started, and my head and shoulders were being bombarded with crockery and cutlery, and bottles. I had an oppressive feeling of the boat being on top of me. I wondered if she would roll over completely, and what the damage would be; but she came up quietly on the same side that she had gone down. I reached up and put my bunk light on. It worked, giving me a curious feeling of something normal in a world of utter chaos.

 I have only a confused idea of what I did for the next hour or so. I had an absolutely hopeless feeling when I looked at the pile of jumbled-up food and gear all along with the cabin. Anything that was in my way when I wanted to move I think I put back in its right place, though feeling as I did so that it was a waste of time as she would probably go over again. The cabin was two feet deep all along with a jumbled-up pile of hundreds of tins, bottles, tools, shackles, blocks, and oddments. Every settee locker, the whole starboard bunk, and the three starboard drop lockers had all emptied out when she was upside down. Water was swishing about on the cabin floor beside the chart table, but not much. I looked into the hull which is five feet deep, but it was not quite full, for which I thought, “Thank God.”

I must have got out on deck to pump the water below the level of the batteries. The important thing was that the masts were standing, and the rigging appeared undamaged. I think it was then that I said to myself, “To hell with everything” and decided to have asleep. I emptied my bunk of plates, cutlery, and bottles. One serrated-edged knife was embedded close to where my head had been, and I thought how lucky I was. My bunk was soaking wet, but I did not give a damn how wet it was. I turned in and was soon fast asleep. I slept soundly till daylight.

Edexcel GCSE English Language - Paper 2: Question 7a

 is about Text 1 and Text 2. 

7.

(a) The two texts describe potentially life-threatening situations.

Identify how Smith and Chichester portray danger differently. Use evidence from both texts to support your answer. 

(Total for Question 7a = 6 marks)

TEXT 1:

Bear Grylls grilled by the council over cliffside slide 

A slide pinned to a cliff face that shoots users into the sea - as long as the tide is in - has landed adventurer Bear Grylls in hot water. 

by Lewis Smith 

The television survivalist for whom grappling with crocodiles and venomous snakes is all in a day’s work now finds himself facing a more mundane but potentially more successful challenger, the local planning officials. 

Chief Scout Grylls provoked the interest of the authorities when he cheerfully tweeted a picture of a slide that had just been installed on the island he owns off the coast of North Wales.

 “New slide attached at home on our island! You hit the water very fast!!!” he enthused. 

The slide, however, has prompted concerns about safety because it can only be used for two hours a day when the tide is in, and about planning regulations, because it is in a designated area of outstanding natural beauty.

Officials from Gwynedd Council are now investigating whether Grylls has breached any planning rules by installing the slide on St Tudwal’s Island West, off Abersoch. “Officers from the Council’s Planning Service are investigating this case and will be discussing the matter with the site owner,” said a spokesman for the council. 

Grylls won himself a reputation as an adventurer and the all-around tough guy of choice while presenting television shows including Born Survivor and Man Vs Wild. He was first offered a presenting role after becoming, at the age of 23, one of the youngest people ever to have scaled Mount Everest. He has since broken records for skydiving and high altitude ballooning.

TEXT 2: 

Francis Chichester, whilst sailing alone around the world in his yacht Gypsy Moth, describes a night off the coast of Australia.

CAPSIZE 

That Monday night was as foul and black a night as you could meet at sea. Although it was pitch dark, the white breakers showed in the blackness like monstrous beasts charging down on the yacht. They towered high in the sky, I wouldn’t blame anyone for being terrified at the sight. My light showed up the breaking water, white in the black darkness, and now and then a wave caught the hull and, breaking against it, sluiced over the decks. As I worked my way along the deck I was feeling ghastly, I thought due to seasickness. When I got below and had stripped off my oilskins I rolled into my bunk and put all the lights out. The bunk was the only place where one could wait below, for it was difficult to stand up. However, lying on my back in the bunk, I dropped into a fitful sleep. 

I think I was awake when the boat began to roll over. If not, I woke immediately she started to do so. Perhaps when the wave hit her I woke. It was pitch dark. As she started rolling I said to myself, “Over she goes!” I was not frightened, but intensely alert and curious. Then a lot of crashing and banging started, and my head and shoulders were being bombarded with crockery and cutlery, and bottles. I had an oppressive feeling of the boat being on top of me. I wondered if she would roll over completely, and what the damage would be; but she came up quietly on the same side that she had gone down. I reached up and put my bunk light on. It worked, giving me a curious feeling of something normal in a world of utter chaos.

 I have only a confused idea of what I did for the next hour or so. I had an absolutely hopeless feeling when I looked at the pile of jumbled-up food and gear all along with the cabin. Anything that was in my way when I wanted to move I think I put back in its right place, though feeling as I did so that it was a waste of time as she would probably go over again. The cabin was two feet deep all along with a jumbled-up pile of hundreds of tins, bottles, tools, shackles, blocks, and oddments. Every settee locker, the whole starboard bunk, and the three starboard drop lockers had all emptied out when she was upside down. Water was swishing about on the cabin floor beside the chart table, but not much. I looked into the hull which is five feet deep, but it was not quite full, for which I thought, “Thank God.”

I must have got out on deck to pump the water below the level of the batteries. The important thing was that the masts were standing, and the rigging appeared undamaged. I think it was then that I said to myself, “To hell with everything” and decided to have asleep. I emptied my bunk of plates, cutlery, and bottles. One serrated-edged knife was embedded close to where my head had been, and I thought how lucky I was. My bunk was soaking wet, but I did not give a damn how wet it was. I turned in and was soon fast asleep. I slept soundly till daylight.

Edexcel GCSE English Language - Paper 2: Question 7b

Question 7b is about Text 1 and Text 2. 

7. (b) Compare how the writers of Text 1 and Text 2 present their ideas regarding the role adventure play in people’s lives. Support your answer with detailed reference to the texts.

(Total for Question 7b = 14 marks)

TEXT 1:

Bear Grylls grilled by the council over cliffside slide 

A slide pinned to a cliff face that shoots users into the sea - as long as the tide is in - has landed adventurer Bear Grylls in hot water. 

by Lewis Smith 

The television survivalist for whom grappling with crocodiles and venomous snakes is all in a day’s work now finds himself facing a more mundane but potentially more successful challenger, the local planning officials. 

Chief Scout Grylls provoked the interest of the authorities when he cheerfully tweeted a picture of a slide that had just been installed on the island he owns off the coast of North Wales.

 “New slide attached at home on our island! You hit the water very fast!!!” he enthused. 

The slide, however, has prompted concerns about safety because it can only be used for two hours a day when the tide is in, and about planning regulations, because it is in a designated area of outstanding natural beauty.

Officials from Gwynedd Council are now investigating whether Grylls has breached any planning rules by installing the slide on St Tudwal’s Island West, off Abersoch. “Officers from the Council’s Planning Service are investigating this case and will be discussing the matter with the site owner,” said a spokesman for the council. 

Grylls won himself a reputation as an adventurer and the all-around tough guy of choice while presenting television shows including Born Survivor and Man Vs Wild. He was first offered a presenting role after becoming, at the age of 23, one of the youngest people ever to have scaled Mount Everest. He has since broken records for skydiving and high altitude ballooning.

TEXT 2: 

Francis Chichester, whilst sailing alone around the world in his yacht Gypsy Moth, describes a night off the coast of Australia.

CAPSIZE 

That Monday night was as foul and black a night as you could meet at sea. Although it was pitch dark, the white breakers showed in the blackness like monstrous beasts charging down on the yacht. They towered high in the sky, I wouldn’t blame anyone for being terrified at the sight. My light showed up the breaking water, white in the black darkness, and now and then a wave caught the hull and, breaking against it, sluiced over the decks. As I worked my way along the deck I was feeling ghastly, I thought due to seasickness. When I got below and had stripped off my oilskins I rolled into my bunk and put all the lights out. The bunk was the only place where one could wait below, for it was difficult to stand up. However, lying on my back in the bunk, I dropped into a fitful sleep. 

I think I was awake when the boat began to roll over. If not, I woke immediately she started to do so. Perhaps when the wave hit her I woke. It was pitch dark. As she started rolling I said to myself, “Over she goes!” I was not frightened, but intensely alert and curious. Then a lot of crashing and banging started, and my head and shoulders were being bombarded with crockery and cutlery, and bottles. I had an oppressive feeling of the boat being on top of me. I wondered if she would roll over completely, and what the damage would be; but she came up quietly on the same side that she had gone down. I reached up and put my bunk light on. It worked, giving me a curious feeling of something normal in a world of utter chaos.

 I have only a confused idea of what I did for the next hour or so. I had an absolutely hopeless feeling when I looked at the pile of jumbled-up food and gear all along with the cabin. Anything that was in my way when I wanted to move I think I put back in its right place, though feeling as I did so that it was a waste of time as she would probably go over again. The cabin was two feet deep all along with a jumbled-up pile of hundreds of tins, bottles, tools, shackles, blocks, and oddments. Every settee locker, the whole starboard bunk, and the three starboard drop lockers had all emptied out when she was upside down. Water was swishing about on the cabin floor beside the chart table, but not much. I looked into the hull which is five feet deep, but it was not quite full, for which I thought, “Thank God.”

I must have got out on deck to pump the water below the level of the batteries. The important thing was that the masts were standing, and the rigging appeared undamaged. I think it was then that I said to myself, “To hell with everything” and decided to have asleep. I emptied my bunk of plates, cutlery, and bottles. One serrated-edged knife was embedded close to where my head had been, and I thought how lucky I was. My bunk was soaking wet, but I did not give a damn how wet it was. I turned in and was soon fast asleep. I slept soundly till daylight.

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