Paper 2 100% exam First Entry 2017 AQA English Language Paper 2 100% exam First Entry 2017

Paper 2 The Basics Section A: 2 non fiction extracts (19th century and 20th/21st century) 4 questions Section B: Writing task – presenting a viewpoint 1hr 45mins 80 marks Section A and B – equal weighting

Paper 2 Q1 2.4 % of marks on paper 4 marks AO1 – identify and interpret 5mins (including reading) Quick question – the start of the ‘progression journey’ Select the TRUE statements

Paper 2 Q2 5% of marks on paper 8 marks AO1 (synthesis) 17 mins (including reading) Both sources - summarise the differences SQI method is suggested as a ‘route through’ To be successful at top level, students need to: Select textual detail connected to focus of question Synthesise the detail from both texts Provide perceptive interpretation – the ‘I’ of SQI is the high level skill This task prepares students for the comparative Q4 Answer can merge the 2 extracts or have a separate paragraph for each linked by relevant discourse markers

Top Band Q2 Content Eddie is a typical modern teenager who is cheeky and speaks to his father in a ‘mocking voice’ emphasising their close relationship and good humour with each other. Henry however is distant and formal with his father, addressing him in a respectful tone, “my dear Father” emphasising the difference in status between them.

Paper 2 Q3 7.5 % of marks on paper 12 marks 17 mins (including reading) AO2 (language) Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language to achieve effects and influence the readers, using relevant subject terminology This question assesses ‘Language’ – words/phrases/features/techniques/sentence forms 1 source only

Some ‘top band’ Q3 content Henry uses direct address to his father which suggests familiarity, “you will not let..”, “you will let me come home” and shows how his future is in the hands of his father, but this is also contrasted with a much more distant and formal mode of address, “my dear Father”. The noun phrase is repeated in a number of places as an emotional tool to try and reinforce that his father is ‘dear’ to him – though the distance and time lapse of them being together suggests to the reader this may not be so – and is a deliberate choice by Henry to appeal to his father.

Paper 2 Q4 10% of marks on paper 16 marks 25 mins (read/plan/write) AO3 Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two texts

Q4 – the ‘challenge’ question This extended-form answer will enable students to compare the different attitudes or viewpoints, perspectives and ideas as an umbrella to capture what a writer is writing about and how they present it to the reader. Focus on the comparison of ‘methods’ – language and structure and form. This includes irony/tone/satire and bias. This question is synoptic – the final stage of the learning journey.

Some ‘top band’ Q4 Jay Rayner uses humour to good effect in his article and uses it both in his attitudes to parenting, “too busy killing things on Skype” – showing his warm, relaxed attitude to his son and in his attitudes to education. He refers to his own education using self deprecating humour however, using the simile, “like a line of Pac –Men doing a conga” to refer to his own grades. This is in direct contrast to…..

Section B Q5 Writing Task 24% of marks on paper 40 marks (24+16) 45mins (plan/write/edit) AO5 and AO6 Writing to present a viewpoint

Q5 ‘Teach’ ‘Homework has no value. Some students get it done for them; some don’t do it at all. Students should be relaxing in their free time’. Write an article for a broadsheet newspaper in which you explain your point of view on this statement