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Centre Number Candidate Number
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE
Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Paper
reference 4EA1/02
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.
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre 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.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end.
• in your answers.
You are reminded of the importance of clear English and careful presentation
Turn over
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P66372A
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L: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 Disabled, taken from the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE
English Anthology.
Disabled
He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,
And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,
Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park
Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,
Voices of play and pleasures after day,
Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.
About this time Town used to swing so gay
When glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees,
And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim –
In the old times, before he threw away his knees.
Now he will never feel again how slim
Girls’ waists are, or how warm their subtle hands;
All of them touch him like some queer disease.
There was an artist silly for his face,
For it was younger than his youth, last year.
Now, he is old; his back will never brace;
He’s lost his colour very far from here,
Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry,
And half his lifetime lapsed in the hot race,
And leap of purple spurted from his thigh.
One time he liked a blood-smear down his leg,
After the matches, carried shoulder-high.
It was after football, when he’d drunk a peg,
He thought he’d better join. – He wonders why.
Someone had said he’d look a god in kilts,
That’s why; and maybe, too, to please his Meg;
Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts
He asked to join. He didn’t have to beg;
Smiling they wrote his lie; aged nineteen years.
Germans he scarcely thought of; all their guilt,
And Austria’s, did not move him. And no fears
Of Fear came yet. He thought of jewelled hilts
For daggers in plaid socks; of smart salutes;
And care of arms; and leave; and pay arrears;
Esprit de corps;1 and hints for young recruits.
And soon he was drafted out with drums and cheers.
2
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Candidate surname Other names
Centre Number Candidate Number
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE
Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Paper
reference 4EA1/02
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.
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre 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.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end.
• in your answers.
You are reminded of the importance of clear English and careful presentation
Turn over
*P66372A0120*
P66372A
©2022 Pearson Education Ltd.
L: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 Disabled, taken from the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE
English Anthology.
Disabled
He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,
And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,
Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park
Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,
Voices of play and pleasures after day,
Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.
About this time Town used to swing so gay
When glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees,
And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim –
In the old times, before he threw away his knees.
Now he will never feel again how slim
Girls’ waists are, or how warm their subtle hands;
All of them touch him like some queer disease.
There was an artist silly for his face,
For it was younger than his youth, last year.
Now, he is old; his back will never brace;
He’s lost his colour very far from here,
Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry,
And half his lifetime lapsed in the hot race,
And leap of purple spurted from his thigh.
One time he liked a blood-smear down his leg,
After the matches, carried shoulder-high.
It was after football, when he’d drunk a peg,
He thought he’d better join. – He wonders why.
Someone had said he’d look a god in kilts,
That’s why; and maybe, too, to please his Meg;
Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts
He asked to join. He didn’t have to beg;
Smiling they wrote his lie; aged nineteen years.
Germans he scarcely thought of; all their guilt,
And Austria’s, did not move him. And no fears
Of Fear came yet. He thought of jewelled hilts
For daggers in plaid socks; of smart salutes;
And care of arms; and leave; and pay arrears;
Esprit de corps;1 and hints for young recruits.
And soon he was drafted out with drums and cheers.
2
*P66372A0220*
