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Practice Paper 1
Practice Paper 1
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Practice Paper 1
Question 1 – 30 mins
Question 2 – 30 mins
Question 3 – 20 mins
Text A – this is the beginning of a long obituary article on the death of Queen
Victoria on 23rd January 1901.
Text B – This is the text of an obituary for the American actor Adam West in
2016.
From the Guardian Online, 2016
Question 1 – Analyse how Text A uses language to create meanings and representations.
(25 marks)
Question 2 – Analyse how Text B uses language to create meanings and representations.
(25 marks)
Question 3 – Explore the similarities and differences in how Text A and Text B use language.
(20 marks)
SECTION B – Children’s Language Development
Either:
4. Interactions with caregivers and peers is the most vital part of child language acquisition.
Referring to Data Set 1 in detail, and to relevant ideas from language study, evaluate this
view of children’s language development.
Or
Referring to Data Set 2 and Data Set 3 in detail, and to relevant ideas from language study,
evaluate this view of children’s language development.
DATA SET 1
Gordon is aged 2 years 2 months, and is playing with some toys with an older child (aged 12) watched by his Mum.
G: Ah dat mine
R: What’s yours?
G: Uh deepot
G: All right.
G: Weengor. (sweetcorn)
G : ucumber.
G: Des.
R: Yes? Would you like to chop it up?( searching through toys) With the knife? It’s here.
G: ere
R: What’s this?
G: Cooker.
G: Um deepot. ( saucepan)
R: Pan
G: A ban. Ere.
R: Turn it on. Shall we put it on a plate? ( George gives Mum the pan of food to eat)
G: les. (yes)
M: Ooh that tastes nice. Are you going to make us a sandwich – you could put them on a plate.
G: Uh oh there it is. Duck. ( picks up toy toaster with bread stuck in it)
M: You could make a sandwich. I want some ham Gordon with some cheese.
G: am an teese
G: Where’s mato?
R: Cheese.
G: There’s ame
R: What’s that?
G: ******* ucumber
G: C:ucumber.
G: Yid.
R: Can you put that on top? ( to mum) It’s the lid of the sandwich.
(laughing)
G: Teese.
G: I put it on a bate.
M: Oh I need a plate.
Data Sets 2 and 3
DATA SET 2
Emily
I am traveling in a rocket
ship To satran and satrn is oroge
Ploto is the smallist planit and
sun is The Biggist Planit