1. Paper 1
Section A
17 November 2010

2. Please put your name on a piece of paper.
At the end of the lesson, please give your
answer to Louise to be marked.
You have to handwrite your answer in the
exam, so this is good practice.

3. You have 55 minutes to
complete section A.
There are 4 questions,
each with 10 marks.

4.  Read the extract.
 Read all 4 questions.
 How much time do you have left?
 Divide that time into four.
 You now have a time budget – you know how
long to spend answering each question.

5.  Before starting to write, try to decode the
question. In question one, the examiner
wants you to do three things:
1. Only use lines 1-23
2. Write about your first impressions of Laurie.
3. Use the text to support your answer.

6.  Mark the lines you are to use (lines 1-23).
 Underline the keywords in the question (first
impressions of Laurie).
 Mark any relevant words & descriptions in the
extract.You could mark words such as refused/
cocky/ slamming, aggressive/shouted and also
mark the things Laurie did such as spilling the
baby’s milk.

7.  My first impressions of Laurie are of a cheeky
and defiant child.
 The first impression that the reader gets of
Laurie is of a cocky child who refuses to do as
his parents ask.
 The first thing we know about Laurie is that he
refuses to wear what he’s told, giving us the
impression that he is a naughty child.

8. Laurie does not behave well at home. As
well as slamming the door, throwing
his cap on the floor and spilling the
baby’s milk. He ‘spoke rudely to his
father.’ Both the words and the
actions give us the impression that
Laurie does not respect his parents.
The words in italics are quoted from the text
to support your answer.

9.  Laurie does not behave well at home. As well as
slamming the door, throwing his cap on the floor
and spilling the baby’s milk. He ‘spoke rudely to
his father.’ Both the words and the actions
give us the impression that Laurie does
not respect his parents.
 The text in bold is your analysis.That
means that you are looking at the words
in the story and saying what effect they
have.

10. When you answer a question, try to follow a 3-
point formula.
1. Point – you want to say that Laurie behaves
badly at home.
2. Evidence – you use the text to support your
answer.
3. Analysis – you say what you think the
evidence shows.

11. 1.(Point) Laurie does not behave well at home.
As well as slamming the door, throwing his cap
on the floor and spilling the baby’s milk,
2. (Evidence) he ‘spoke rudely to his father.’
3. (Analysis) Both the words and the actions give
us the impression that Laurie does not respect
his parents.

12.  You have written one sentence and one
paragraph so far. How much time do you
have left?
Another few minutes? Great!Write another 3-
point paragraph.
No time? Click to the next slide.

13. ‘My first impressions of Laurie are of a cheeky and defiant child.
Laurie does not behave well at home. As well as slamming the
door, throwing his cap on the floor and spilling the baby’s milk. He
‘spoke rudely to his father.’ Both the words and the actions give us
the impression that Laurie does not respect his parents.’
 You have one paragraph. Ideally you would
write at least another two paragraphs on this
answer – but if you have run out of time, leave
a space (so that you can come back later if you
have time at the end of the exam) and go on to
the next question.

14.  You will get some marks for a short
answer.
 You will get no marks if you run out of
time and don’t reach the last question.
 Remember to leave a space so that you
can go back to unfinished questions if
you have time at the end of the exam.

15. Before starting to write, ask yourself:
 How much time do I have?
 Which lines should I use?
 What words in the question should I
underline?
 What words in the text will help me answer
the question?

16.  Look at the words you have underlined in the
question.
 Make a sentence that uses those words.This
tells the examiner that you have understood
the question.
 Ask Louise to check
your first sentence.

17.  Decide what you want to say. Ask yourself: What did
I learn about Charles?
 Find some evidence from the text that supports
what you said that you learnt about Charles.
‘Charles bounced a seesaw onto the head of a little
girl and made her bleed.’
 Analyse or sum up your findings. Because the author
lists all the bad things Charles did at school, we learn
that he is a very difficult student.

18.  You can do this one!
 It is very like
questions 1 and 2.
 Use the same PEA
formula.

19.  Ask yourself what the examiner wants you to
do?
 Underline the key words in the question.
 It’s a test of your understanding. Put the
situation and the question into your own
words: Laurie’s mother has just found out the
truth. How is she going to tell her husband?

20.  The key word is imagine.
 If you were Laurie’s mother, how would you
explain that Charles is really Laurie?
 Can you imagine how she is feeling now she
knows the truth?

21.  Please hand in your paper for marking.
 Make sure your name
is on your paper.