Free Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.0 (1EN2) Exam Questions and Answers

Read this extract. The subscriber has only to put down his receivers and wait a few minutes for the local news, or the theatrical, art, or science notices. Next come the latest foreign, provincial, and sporting information, and all kinds of society and political matter. And this news not only comes with extraordinary promptness, but it is brought to one’s own fireside, without the trouble of running into the street for the paper. But the name of the telephone—its full description is the ‘News and Entertainment Telephone’—implies that the instrument is not monopolised by news. Perhaps the most popular feature of it is its connection with the theatres, concert halls, and the hundred and one other places of amusement in the city. In the extract the writer tries to persuade readers that the Pleasure Telephone will change people’s lives positively. Evaluate how successfully this is achieved. Give three reasons for your opinion and use examples from the extract.

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Write a letter to your local newspaper about a proposal to ban the use of mobile phones in schools or colleges in your area. You should include: • your arguments for the ban • your arguments against the ban • what you would recommend. *Your response will be marked for the accurate and appropriate use of vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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Read Text 2 in the Source Booklet provided and answer Questions 4–6. Read this extract. The fact is that in every form of sport accidents will happen, and the very element of risk is with many an incentive to the sport. Bathing accidents are frequent, yet who would say give up bathing? And hunting, skating, shooting, and even cricket—all give their proportion of mishaps. Take the corresponding advantages of fine, manly exercise, improving to a wonderful extent the pluck, nerve and physique¹ of many a naturally timid boy, and I feel sure that the good far overbalances the necessary evil of risk of injury to limbs, in the way of sprains, strains, or even an occasional breakage. From the extract, identify two reasons why people might take part in sports.

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Write an article for a sports website aimed at your peer group with the title ‘Time for a change – try a new sport’. A student has started a response to this task. Many of us now spend a great deal of time in front of our computers and often have to work or study online. This has meant that we do not get enough exercise. I will explain why it is important to take up a new sport and how to do it. Continue this article using your own ideas. *Your response will be marked for the accurate and appropriate use of vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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Write a formal email to the planning department of your local council about a proposal to build houses on a local recreation and sports site. You should include: • your views about keeping the site for sport and recreation • your views about building houses on the site • what you would recommend. *Your response will be marked for the accurate and appropriate use of vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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Read this extract. One class of sufferers in the mine moved my companion more than any other, a number of children who attend at the doors to open them when the horses pass through, and who in this duty are compelled to linger through their lives, in silence, solitude, and darkness, for sixpence a day. When I first came to one of these doors, I saw it open without perceiving by what means, till, looking behind it, I beheld² a miserable little wretch standing without a light, silent and motionless, and resembling in the abjectness³ of its condition some reptile peculiar to the place, rather than a human creature. From the extract, identify two ways the writer shows how horrible it was for the children in the mine. 1 ____ 2 ____

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Write a blog with the title ‘How to choose the best job’. A student has started a response to this task. There is a lot to think about when choosing a job. Will I enjoy it and how much will I earn? Do I have the skills or qualifications, or will they train me? Do I want a permanent or temporary job and will it be full-time or part-time? Continue this blog using your own ideas. *Your response will be marked for the accurate and appropriate use of vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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Write an article for an employment website aimed at young adults, with the title ‘How to make a good impression: a guide to a successful interview’. You should include: • advice on preparation and presentation • what you should say and do • what you should not say and not do. *Your response will be marked for the accurate and appropriate use of vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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How does the writer use language to interest and inform the reader? You should include: • the writer’s use of language • the effect on the reader. Use examples from the whole text and relevant subject terminology.

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Read Text 2 in the Source Booklet provided and answer Questions 4–6. Read this extract. Up and down they roam in groups, finding an extraordinary pleasure in howls and vile jokes. What are we to do with this rising generation? In the first place, we might ask them to take a lesson from our French neighbours. The Paris workman takes his family on Sundays to some pleasure resort in the woods or on the river. Does not this compare favourably with the picture presented to us in this country—slovenly⁴ women on doorsteps, yelling at dirty children; unhappy-looking men draining glasses at bar counters; rough boys chasing untidy girls and pulling the bedraggled feathers from their hats? From the extract, identify two ways that the writer suggests that young people’s behaviour could be improved. 1 ____ 2 ____

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