English Language Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading

English Language Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. How many questions are there in this paper? How many sections are there in the exam? How many marks are there in each section? What do you have to do for question 1? What will question 2 ask you to write about? Can you think of any structural features that you could write about for question 3? 7. What will question 4 ask you to do? 8. How is question 5 different from questions 1 -4? What’s assessed? Section A: Reading • one literature fiction text Section B: Writing • descriptive or narrative writing Written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes • 80 marks • 50% of GCSE

Question 2: Is all about LANGUAGE! How does the writer use language here to describe the ‘guest’? You could write about: -Words and phrases -Language features and techniques Why might this be an -Sentence forms effect? What examples can you think of? PAMFOREST?

Reading the Extract! • How many characters can you identify? • Who are they? • What is the setting? • Are there any objects that give us clues? • What happens? • What can you infer about the ‘guest’?

What are your expectations of the extract based on the title? Treasure Island

For question 2, you will only need to refer to the beginning of the text! I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn 1. Highlight any door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, interesting strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken adjectives nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I 2. Can you find any remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often imagery? Can afterwards: — you find a ‘Fifteen men on the dead man's chest— simile? Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!’ 3. Are there any in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and sentences that broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, are structured called roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought to him, he for effect? drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste, and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.

Answering the question How does the writer use language here to describe the ‘guest’? You could write about: -Words and phrases -Language features and techniques -Sentence forms At the beginning of the extract, the writer uses…

Exemplar – 6 -7 marks At the beginning of the extract, the writer uses powerful adjectives to create an image of a weathered man who is “strong, heavy” and “nut brown”. The language connotes that he is a capable individual and has clearly spent a lot of time outside. The writer lists his features to convey the richness of both his appearance and his character – the reader will be wondering what stories he has to tell. The use of a violent semantic field with word choices like “scarred” and “ragged” and “cut” is effective because the reader may sense that he is a dangerous character, however this is juxtaposed with his “whistling” and “plodding” that creates a relaxed and intriguing charisma. Finally, the use of a simile to describe the guest as “like a connoisseur” conveys a humorous effect; evidently, the man is confident and approaches life with a free and even-tempered attitude.