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booklet comprises of 2 past papers:  \nThe first paper is what you completed for your October mocks.This paper has exampleresponses that are grade 5 and grade 7.You can read through this to remind yourself of theexpectations for each question.  \nThe second paper is for you to complete independen+ly in preparation for your exams.  \nEnglish Language is a skills-based exam.The only way +o revise effectively for English Languageis to plan your responses to questions and/or write up responses.The best method to revise forthis exam is to plan a response and write itin timed conditions.  \n## GCSEENGLISH LANGUAGE\n\nPaper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing  \nInsert  \nThe source that follows is:  \nSource A:20th Century prose-fictionThe Pearl by John SteinbeckAn extract from the beginning of a novel published in 1947  \nPlease turn the page over to see the source  \n8700/1  \nSource A  \n\n| In this extract from the beginning of the novel,Kino,a poor pearl diver,is with his wife Juana and  \u003Cbr>their baby Coyotito in their village home in Mexico.   |\n| --- |\n\n1 The sun was warming the brush house,breaking through its crevices in long streaks.And oneof the streaks fell on the hanging bed-box where baby Coyotito lay,and on the ropes that heldit.It was a tiny movement that drew their eyes to the hanging box.Kino and Juana froze intheir positions.Down the rope that hung the baby's box from the roof support,a scorpion  \n5 moved slowly.His stinging tail was straight out behind him,but he could whip it up in a flash of6 time.  \n7 Kino's breath whistled in his nostrils and he opened his mouth to stop it.And then the startledlook was gone from him and the rigidity from his body.In his mind a new song had come,theSong of Evil,the music of the enemy,of any foe of the family,a savage,secret,dangerous  \n10 melody,and underneath,the Song of the Family cried plaintively.The scorpion moveddelicately down the rope toward the box.Kino was in motion.His body glided quietly acrossthe room,noiselessly and smoothly.His hands were in front of him,palms down,and his eyeswere on the scorpion.It sensed danger when Kino was almost within reach of it.It stopped,and its tail rose up over its back in little jerks and the curved thorn on the tail's end glistened.  \n15 Kino stood perfectly still.He could not move until the scorpion moved,and it felt for the sourceof the death that was coming to it.Kino's hand went forward very slowly,very smoothly.The17 thorned tail jerked upright.  \nAnd at that moment,the laughing Coyotito shook the rope and the scorpion fell.  \n19 Kino's hand leaped to catch it,but it fell past his fingers,fell on the baby's shoulder,landed and20 struck.Then,snarling,Kino had it,had it in his fingers,rubbing it to a paste in his hands.Hethrew it down and beat it into the earth floor with his fist,and Coyotito screamed with pain in hisbox.But Kino beat and stamped the enemy until it was only a fragment and a moist place inthe dirt.His teeth were bared and fury flared in his eyes and the Song of the Enemy roared inhis ears.  \n25 But Juana had the baby in her arms now.She found the puncture with redness starting from italready.She put her lips down over the puncture and sucked hard and spat and sucked againwhile Coyotito screamed.  \nKino hovered;he was helpless,he was in the way.  \nThe screams of the baby brought the neighbours.\"Scorpion.The baby has been stung.\"  \n30 Juana stopped sucking the puncture for a moment.The little hole was slightly enlarged and itsedges whitened from the sucking,but the red swelling extended farther around it in a hardmound.An adult might be very illfrom the sting,but a baby could easily die from the poison.First would come swelling and fever and tightened throat,and then cramps in the stomach,andthen Coyotito might die if enough of the poison had gone in.But the stinging pain of the bite35 was going 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