Section A
Reading
- Skills: AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas.
Question 1a
Guidance
- Look again at lines 1-7
- Identify one phrase from these lines that shows what will happen after the surrender. 1 mark
Answer
Award one mark for the following:
‘before we go to prison’
Question 1b
Guidance
- What is the sergeant’s view of the forthcoming surrender? 1 mark
Answer
Award one mark for:
- Award one mark either for the lift of
‘It don’t seem right’
OR an appropriate paraphrase of this line.
Question 1c
Guidance
- What are your first impressions of Guy here? Support your answer with reference to the text. Accept either paraphrase or lifts from the text.2 marks
Answer
- Award one mark each for:
- He is practical
‘we’d better have a meal’
He is resigned‘Quite true sergeant’
repeated.
2 a Skills: Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers using relevant subject terminology to support their views.
Question 2a
Guidance
- How does Evelyn Waugh use language and structure to make his description of the preparations for…
