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Year 11 English
Task – Attempt at least 2 of the 4 questions below. Do remember that in the final English Language Paper 1 exam you will have to attempt Q1 and Q2 so perhaps you might want to use this opportunity to stretch yourself and get valuable feedback. 

a)   Read again the extract below.
For an instant, as he hurried into the showers, with one leg angled in running, with his dirty legs and huge rib cage moulding the skin of his white body, with his hollow cheek in profile, and the sabre of shadow emanating from the eye-hole, just for a moment he resembled an old photograph of a child hurrying towards the final solution.
   Write down four features of Billy’s physical appearance.        [4 marks] 

b) Look in detail at this extract from paragraphs 3-5.
The blunt arrow was pointing to HOT. Sugden swung it back over WARM to COLD. For a few seconds there was no visible change in the temperature, and the red slice held steady, still dominating that dial. Then it began to recede, slowly at first, then swiftly, its share of the face diminishing rapidly. The cold water made Billy gasp. He held out his hands as though testing for rain, then ran for the end. The three guards barred the exit. 
"Hey up, shift! Let me out, you rotten dogs!" 
They held him easily so he swished back to the other end, yelling all the way along. Sugden pushed him in the chest as he clung his way round the corner. 
Billy tried another rush. Sugden repelled it, so he tried the other end again. Every time he tried to escape the three boys bounced him back, stinging him with their snapping towels as he retreated. He tried manoeuvring the nozzles, but whichever way he twisted them the water still found him out. Until finally he gave up, and stood amongst them, tolerating the freezing spray in silence. 

How does the writer use language here to suggest Billy’s desperation?
   You could include the writer’s choice of:
* words and phrases
* language features and techniques
* sentence forms
[8 marks] 
 
c)  Read again the extract below.
The formal name of the Store was the Wm. Johnson General Merchandise Store. Customers could find food staples, a good variety of colored thread, mash for hogs, corn for chickens, coal oil for lamps, light bulbs for the wealthy, shoestrings, hair dressing, balloons, and flower seeds. Anything not visible had only to be ordered.
List four things from this part of the text that are sold in the Wm. Johnson General Merchandise Store.
           [4 marks] 
d) 
When I was three and Bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed—“To Whom It May Concern”—that we were Marguerite and Bailey Johnson Jr., from Long Beach, California, en route to Stamps, Arkansas, c/o Mrs. Annie Henderson.
Our parents had decided to put an end to their calamitous marriage, and Father shipped us home to his mother. A porter1 had been charged with our welfare—he got off the train the next day in Arizona—and  our tickets were pinned to my brother’s inside coat pocket.
I don’t remember much of the trip, but after we reached the segregated southern part of the journey, things must have looked up. Negro passengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for “the poor little motherless darlings” and plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad.
Years later I discovered that the United States had been crossed thousands of times by frightened Black children traveling alone to their newly affluent parents in Northern cities, or back to grandmothers in Southern towns when the urban North reneged on its economic promises. 
The town reacted to us as its inhabitants had reacted to all things new before our coming. It regarded us a while without curiosity but with caution, and after we were seen to be harmless (and children) it closed in around us, as a real mother embraces a stranger’s child. Warmly, but not too familiarly.

 How does the writer use language here to describe the helplessness of Maya 
 Angelou and her brother, Bailey?
    You could include the writer’s choice of:
* words and phrases
* language features and techniques
* sentence forms
[8 marks]