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Centre Number Candidate Number
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE
Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Paper
reference 4EA1/02R
English Language A
PAPER 2: Poetry and Prose Texts and
Imaginative Writing
You do not need any other materials. Total Marks
Instructions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
• centrethe
Fill in boxes at the top of this page with your name,
number and candidate number.
• Answer ONE question from each section.
• Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
Information
• The total mark for this paper is 60.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
• Quality of written communication, including vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and
grammar, will be taken into account in your response to Section B.
• Copies of the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology may not be
brought into the examination.
• Dictionaries may not be used in this examination.
Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• You areyour
Check answers if you have time at the end.
• your answers.
reminded of the importance of clear English and careful presentation in
Turn over
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L:1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1
, SECTION A: Reading
Answer the question in this section.
You should spend about 45 minutes on this section.
Begin your answer on page 3.
Remind yourself of The Bright Lights of Sarajevo, taken from the Pearson Edexcel International
GCSE English Anthology.
The Bright Lights of Sarajevo
After the hours that Sarajevans pass
queuing with empty canisters of gas
to get the refills they wheel home in prams,
or queuing for the precious meagre grams
of bread they’re rationed to each day,
and often dodging snipers on the way,
or struggling up sometimes eleven flights
of stairs with water, then you’d think that the nights
of Sarajevo would be totally devoid
of people walking streets Serb shells destroyed,
but tonight in Sarajevo that’s just not the case –
The young go walking at a stroller’s pace,
black shapes impossible to mark
as Muslim, Serb or Croat in such dark.
In unlit streets you can’t distinguish who
calls bread hjleb or hleb or calls it kruh.
All take the evening air with stroller’s stride,
no torches guide them but they don’t collide
except as one of the flirtatious ploys
when a girl’s dark shape is fancied by a boy’s.
Then the tender radar of the tone of voice
shows by its signals she approves his choice.
Then match or lighter to a cigarette
to check in her eyes if he’s made progress yet.
And I see a pair who’ve certainly progressed
beyond the tone of voice and match-flare test
and he’s about, I think, to take her hand
and lead her away from where they stand
on two shell scars, where in ‘92
Serb mortars massacred the breadshop queue
and blood-dunked crusts of shredded bread
lay on the pavement with the broken dead.
And at their feet in holes made by the mortar
that caused the massacre, now full of water
from the rain that’s poured down half the day,
though now even the smallest clouds have cleared away,
leaving the Sarajevo star-filled evening sky
ideally bright and clear for bomber’s eye,
2
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Pearson Edexcel International GCSE
Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Paper
reference 4EA1/02R
English Language A
PAPER 2: Poetry and Prose Texts and
Imaginative Writing
You do not need any other materials. Total Marks
Instructions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
• centrethe
Fill in boxes at the top of this page with your name,
number and candidate number.
• Answer ONE question from each section.
• Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
Information
• The total mark for this paper is 60.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
• Quality of written communication, including vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and
grammar, will be taken into account in your response to Section B.
• Copies of the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology may not be
brought into the examination.
• Dictionaries may not be used in this examination.
Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• You areyour
Check answers if you have time at the end.
• your answers.
reminded of the importance of clear English and careful presentation in
Turn over
*P66373A0120*
P66373A
©2022 Pearson Education Ltd.
L:1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1
, SECTION A: Reading
Answer the question in this section.
You should spend about 45 minutes on this section.
Begin your answer on page 3.
Remind yourself of The Bright Lights of Sarajevo, taken from the Pearson Edexcel International
GCSE English Anthology.
The Bright Lights of Sarajevo
After the hours that Sarajevans pass
queuing with empty canisters of gas
to get the refills they wheel home in prams,
or queuing for the precious meagre grams
of bread they’re rationed to each day,
and often dodging snipers on the way,
or struggling up sometimes eleven flights
of stairs with water, then you’d think that the nights
of Sarajevo would be totally devoid
of people walking streets Serb shells destroyed,
but tonight in Sarajevo that’s just not the case –
The young go walking at a stroller’s pace,
black shapes impossible to mark
as Muslim, Serb or Croat in such dark.
In unlit streets you can’t distinguish who
calls bread hjleb or hleb or calls it kruh.
All take the evening air with stroller’s stride,
no torches guide them but they don’t collide
except as one of the flirtatious ploys
when a girl’s dark shape is fancied by a boy’s.
Then the tender radar of the tone of voice
shows by its signals she approves his choice.
Then match or lighter to a cigarette
to check in her eyes if he’s made progress yet.
And I see a pair who’ve certainly progressed
beyond the tone of voice and match-flare test
and he’s about, I think, to take her hand
and lead her away from where they stand
on two shell scars, where in ‘92
Serb mortars massacred the breadshop queue
and blood-dunked crusts of shredded bread
lay on the pavement with the broken dead.
And at their feet in holes made by the mortar
that caused the massacre, now full of water
from the rain that’s poured down half the day,
though now even the smallest clouds have cleared away,
leaving the Sarajevo star-filled evening sky
ideally bright and clear for bomber’s eye,
2
*P66373A0220*
