GCE A LEVEL
A700U20-1 S25-A700U20-1
WEDNESDAY, 4 JUNE 2025 – AFTERNOON
ENGLISH LANGUAGE – A level component 2
Language Change Over Time
2 hours 15 minutes
A70 0U201
01
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
A WJEC pink 16-page answer booklet.
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Answer all questions.
Write your answers in the separate answer booklet provided.
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
There are two sections.
Section A carries 80 marks and Section B carries 40 marks.
The number of marks is given in brackets at the end of each question or part-question.
As a guide, you are advised to spend 1 hour and 30 minutes on Section A and 45 minutes on
Section B.
You are reminded of the need for orderly, clear presentation in your answers.
Assessment will take into account the quality of written communication used in your answers.
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, 2
Section A: Language Change Over Time
Answer Question 1 and Question 2.
Question 1 is divided into four parts: (a), (b), (c) and (d). Answer all parts.
The three texts which follow on pages 4–6 are examples of conduct literature (advisory texts). The
writers give advice to children and teenagers on good manners and appropriate behaviour.
Read Texts A, B and C, and then answer all parts of the following questions.
Text A is an extract from The Lytille Childrenes Lytil boke: A Guide to Maners for Boys published
in 1500. It is written for boys who are only at school for a few years before being sent to another
household to continue their education as apprentices, farm labourers or domestic servants. The
book gives advice on appropriate social behaviour to boys who have not grown up in a high-status
family.
Text B is an extract from Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. Addressed to A Lady, written by
Mrs Chapone and published in 1773. It was originally written for Chapone’s teenage niece, but it
proved to be very popular and by 1800 there had been sixteen editions. The book gives advice to
girls on their education and on how they should behave in society.
Text C is an extract from Emily Post’s The Guide to Good Manners for Kids, written by Peggy Post
and Cindy Post Senning, and published in 2004. This is part of a long-standing American series
of advice books for children which began in the 1920s. The book gives advice on manners and
politeness in the twenty-first century.
© WJEC CBAC Ltd. (A700U20-1)
A700U20-1 S25-A700U20-1
WEDNESDAY, 4 JUNE 2025 – AFTERNOON
ENGLISH LANGUAGE – A level component 2
Language Change Over Time
2 hours 15 minutes
A70 0U201
01
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
A WJEC pink 16-page answer booklet.
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Answer all questions.
Write your answers in the separate answer booklet provided.
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
There are two sections.
Section A carries 80 marks and Section B carries 40 marks.
The number of marks is given in brackets at the end of each question or part-question.
As a guide, you are advised to spend 1 hour and 30 minutes on Section A and 45 minutes on
Section B.
You are reminded of the need for orderly, clear presentation in your answers.
Assessment will take into account the quality of written communication used in your answers.
© WJEC CBAC Ltd. JD*(S25-A700U20-1)
, 2
Section A: Language Change Over Time
Answer Question 1 and Question 2.
Question 1 is divided into four parts: (a), (b), (c) and (d). Answer all parts.
The three texts which follow on pages 4–6 are examples of conduct literature (advisory texts). The
writers give advice to children and teenagers on good manners and appropriate behaviour.
Read Texts A, B and C, and then answer all parts of the following questions.
Text A is an extract from The Lytille Childrenes Lytil boke: A Guide to Maners for Boys published
in 1500. It is written for boys who are only at school for a few years before being sent to another
household to continue their education as apprentices, farm labourers or domestic servants. The
book gives advice on appropriate social behaviour to boys who have not grown up in a high-status
family.
Text B is an extract from Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. Addressed to A Lady, written by
Mrs Chapone and published in 1773. It was originally written for Chapone’s teenage niece, but it
proved to be very popular and by 1800 there had been sixteen editions. The book gives advice to
girls on their education and on how they should behave in society.
Text C is an extract from Emily Post’s The Guide to Good Manners for Kids, written by Peggy Post
and Cindy Post Senning, and published in 2004. This is part of a long-standing American series
of advice books for children which began in the 1920s. The book gives advice on manners and
politeness in the twenty-first century.
© WJEC CBAC Ltd. (A700U20-1)
