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A-level
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Paper 1 Telling Stories
Friday 24 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 3 hours
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 12-page answer book
• the Insert (enclosed)
• a copy of the set texts you have studied for Section B and Section C. These texts must not be
annotated and must not contain additional notes or materials.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7707/1.
• There are three sections:
Section A: Remembered Places
Section B: Imagined Worlds
Section C: Poetic Voices
• Answer three questions in total: the question in Section A, one question from Section B and one
question from Section C.
• Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked.
Information
• The maximum mark for this paper is 100.
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• There are 40 marks for the question in Section A, 35 marks for the question in Section B and 25
marks for the question in Section C.
• You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
It is recommended that you spend 70 minutes on Section A, 60 minutes on Section B and 50 minutes
on Section C.
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Section A
Remembered Places
Answer Question 1 in this section.
Read Text A and Text B printed below and on the Insert.
Text A is an extract from Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson.
Text B is an extract from ‘Inside Out and Upside Down’, (extract from NOT-FOR-PARENTS: PARIS
– Everything you ever wanted to know) by Klay Lamprell.
0 1 Compare and contrast how the writers of Text A and Text B express their ideas about
the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
You should refer to both texts in your answer.
[40 marks]
Text A
Bill Bryson is an American author who has written a number of travel memoirs, as well as
popular books on science and languages. Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe tells
the story of his journey through Europe in 1990.
With the Louvre packed I went instead to the new – new to me, at any rate – Musée
d’Orsay, on the Left Bank opposite the Tuileries. When I had last passed it, sixteen years
before, it had been a derelict hulk, the shell of the old Gare d’Orsay, but some person of
vision had decided to restore the old station as a museum and it is simply wonderful, both
5 as a building and as a collection of pictures. I spent two happy hours there, and
afterwards checked out the situation at the Louvre – still hopelessly crowded – and
instead went to the Pompidou Centre, which I was determined to try to like, but I
couldn’t. Everything about it seemed wrong. For one thing it was a bit weathered and
faded, like a child’s toy that has been left out over winter, which surprised me because it
10 is only a dozen years old and the government had just spent £40 million refurbishing it,
but I guess that’s what you get when you build with plastic. And it seemed much too
overbearing a structure for its cramped neighbourhood. It would be an altogether
different building in a park.
But what I really dislike about buildings like the Pompidou Centre, and Paris is choking
15 on them, is that they are just showing off. Here’s Richard Rogers saying to the world,
‘Look, I put all the pipes on the outside. Am I cute enough to kiss?’ I could excuse that if
some consideration were given to function. No one seems to have thought what the
Pompidou Centre should do – that it should be a gathering place, a haven, because
inside it’s just crowded and confusing. It has none of the sense of space and light and
20 majestic calm of the Musée d’Orsay. It’s like a department store on the first day of a big
sale. There’s hardly any place to sit and no focal point – no big clock or anything – at
which to meet someone. It has no heart.
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Text B is printed on the Insert
Turn over for Section B
Turn over ►
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A-level
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Paper 1 Telling Stories
Friday 24 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 3 hours
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 12-page answer book
• the Insert (enclosed)
• a copy of the set texts you have studied for Section B and Section C. These texts must not be
annotated and must not contain additional notes or materials.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7707/1.
• There are three sections:
Section A: Remembered Places
Section B: Imagined Worlds
Section C: Poetic Voices
• Answer three questions in total: the question in Section A, one question from Section B and one
question from Section C.
• Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked.
Information
• The maximum mark for this paper is 100.
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• There are 40 marks for the question in Section A, 35 marks for the question in Section B and 25
marks for the question in Section C.
• You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
It is recommended that you spend 70 minutes on Section A, 60 minutes on Section B and 50 minutes
on Section C.
, MERGED QUESTION PAPER> MARK SCHEME> 100% GUARANTEE
IB/G/Jun24/G4004/E6 7707/1
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Section A
Remembered Places
Answer Question 1 in this section.
Read Text A and Text B printed below and on the Insert.
Text A is an extract from Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson.
Text B is an extract from ‘Inside Out and Upside Down’, (extract from NOT-FOR-PARENTS: PARIS
– Everything you ever wanted to know) by Klay Lamprell.
0 1 Compare and contrast how the writers of Text A and Text B express their ideas about
the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
You should refer to both texts in your answer.
[40 marks]
Text A
Bill Bryson is an American author who has written a number of travel memoirs, as well as
popular books on science and languages. Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe tells
the story of his journey through Europe in 1990.
With the Louvre packed I went instead to the new – new to me, at any rate – Musée
d’Orsay, on the Left Bank opposite the Tuileries. When I had last passed it, sixteen years
before, it had been a derelict hulk, the shell of the old Gare d’Orsay, but some person of
vision had decided to restore the old station as a museum and it is simply wonderful, both
5 as a building and as a collection of pictures. I spent two happy hours there, and
afterwards checked out the situation at the Louvre – still hopelessly crowded – and
instead went to the Pompidou Centre, which I was determined to try to like, but I
couldn’t. Everything about it seemed wrong. For one thing it was a bit weathered and
faded, like a child’s toy that has been left out over winter, which surprised me because it
10 is only a dozen years old and the government had just spent £40 million refurbishing it,
but I guess that’s what you get when you build with plastic. And it seemed much too
overbearing a structure for its cramped neighbourhood. It would be an altogether
different building in a park.
But what I really dislike about buildings like the Pompidou Centre, and Paris is choking
15 on them, is that they are just showing off. Here’s Richard Rogers saying to the world,
‘Look, I put all the pipes on the outside. Am I cute enough to kiss?’ I could excuse that if
some consideration were given to function. No one seems to have thought what the
Pompidou Centre should do – that it should be a gathering place, a haven, because
inside it’s just crowded and confusing. It has none of the sense of space and light and
20 majestic calm of the Musée d’Orsay. It’s like a department store on the first day of a big
sale. There’s hardly any place to sit and no focal point – no big clock or anything – at
which to meet someone. It has no heart.
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Text B is printed on the Insert
Turn over for Section B
Turn over ►
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