'Help Us Mutiny': Johnny Depp Pays Surprise Visit to London Primary School Dressed As Jack Sparrow After Letter from Girl, 9

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General Certificate of Secondary Education 1 Foundation Tier June 2012 2 3

English/English Language ENG1F 4

Unit 1 Understanding and producing non-fiction texts 5 6 Tuesday 29 May 2012 9.00 am to 11.15 am F TOTAL For this paper you must have: Sources 1, 2 and 3 which are provided as a loose insert inside this question paper.

Time allowed 2 hours and 15 minutes

Instructions Answer all questions. Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages. Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. You must refer to the insert booklet provided. You must not use a dictionary.

Information The marks for questions are shown in brackets. The maximum mark for this paper is 80. There are 40 marks for Section A and 40 marks for Section B. You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers. There is one insert inside this question paper. Sources 1, 2 and 3 are printed on the insert. You will be assessed on the quality of your reading in Section A. You will be assessed on the quality of your writing in Section B.

Advice Before you start writing, read through all six of the questions you have to answer and the three reading sources. You are advised to spend about one hour on Section A and about one hour on Section B.

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Unit 1 Understanding and producing non-fiction texts F

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The three sources that follow are:

Source 1: an online article called 'Help us mutiny': Johnny Depp pays surprise visit to London primary school dressed as Jack Sparrow after letter from girl, 9

Source 2: an article called Lifeboat saved my hamster! from the RNLI webpage

Source 3: an extract of travel writing by Michael Palin.

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Source 1

'Help us mutiny': Johnny Depp pays surprise visit to London primary school dressed as Jack Sparrow after letter from girl, 9

It's not every day a Hollywood heart-throb pitches up in arrived, and gave her a cuddle. your classroom. Beatrice marvelled: 'He gave me a hug and he said, But these Greenwich schoolgoers left the rest of Britain's "Maybe we shouldn't mutiny today 'cos there are police children - if not parents - green with envy when they had outside monitoring me."' a surprise visit from Johnny Depp yesterday. Police have been a constant presence as fi lming has The star is currently in south-east London fi lming the progressed at the old college, parts of which have been fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie transformed to look like Georgian London. On Stranger Tides and arrived at the Meridian Primary Depp has been seen fi lming scenes in which he jumped School dressed in full character as Captain Jack from a third-fl oor window and later balanced on a chariot Sparrow. pulled by galloping horses. He made the one-off trip after nine-year-old pupil In the movie, Johnny stars alongside Penelope Cruz, Beatrice Delap wrote to the star asking for help staging a who plays an old fl ame of the crazy ship's captain who 'mutiny' against the teachers, as he was fi lming at the heads off on a journey to fi nd the fountain of youth. nearby 18th century Old Naval College. The movie, which has already been shot in Hawaii, Los The school was told just ten minutes before that Depp Angeles and Puerto Rico, is due for release next would be arriving and two blacked-out cars swept summer. through the school gates. Johnny has got form when it comes to fl ying visits to An onlooker said she heard the most 'incredible screams fans in London too. of joy' as the actor, in full make-up, then entered the He made a secret visit to Great Ormond Street Hospital school. in January 2008 to donate £1 million to say thank you for In an interview on London Tonight after the visit, Beatrice saving his daughter's life, just months after making a revealed what she had written in the letter to the star - or clandestine visit to the wards to tell bedtime stories to rather his salty seadog character. sick children on the wards dressed as Captain Sparrow. She said: 'Captain Jack Sparrow, At Meridian Primary The then eight-year-old Lily-Rose was treated there in School, we are a bunch of budding young pirates and we March 2007 when her kidneys failed while he and were having a bit of trouble mutiny-ing against the partner Vanessa Paradis were staying in Richmond, teachers, and we'd love if you could come and help. southwest London, together with son Jack John, while 'Beatrice Delap, aged nine, a budding pirate.' Johnny fi lmed Sweeney Todd at Pinewood Studios in She said that she was then asked by the star to make Buckinghamshire. herself known from the assembled pupils once he

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Source 2

Lifeboat saved my hamster! 22/10/2010 A family on holiday with a pet hamster needed the help of the RNLI on Wednesday (20 October) when their boat ran aground at Loch Ness. The volunteer RNLI lifeboat crew were launched to assist the family. Aberdeen Coastguard received an emergency call alerting them to the incident and requested the launch of the Loch Ness lifeboat. Crew Members Ian Putnam, Joy Cameron and Martin Douglas left the Temple Pier base at just before 1pm aboard the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Mercurius to assist the stranded family. Weather conditions were clear but the loch was choppy. Joy had to swim, then wade, to the grounded vessel which had got into difﬁ culty in a notoriously tricky area. The cruiser was checked to conﬁ rm that it was not taking on water and that there were no injuries sustained to the six people aboard, before the three volunteer crew rigged tow ropes and bridles to allow a tow into deeper water. The extremely shallow water and very narrow channel created additional problems but the RNLI team were eventually able to free the vessel. The family, vessel and hamster were under way a short time later. The lifeboat returned to station around 3.30 pm and was met by additional members of the local crew who refuelled and prepared her ready for service.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT-HOLDERS AND PUBLISHERS Permission to reproduce all copyright material has been applied for. In some cases efforts to contact copyright-holders have been unsuccessful and AQA will be happy to rectify any omissions of acknowledgements in future if notified.

SOURCE 1: JODY THOMPSON, 'Help us mutiny': Johnny Depp pays surprise visit to London primary school dressed as Jack Sparrow after letter from girl, 9 © Daily Mail 2010. Photograph © Darryl Green 2010 SOURCE 2: Reprinted by permission of the RNLI © RNLI 2010 SOURCE 3: Adapted from Michael Palin Around the World in 80 Days by permission of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Onion Publishing Group, London © Michael Palin 1989

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Source 3 Michael Palin completed a round-the-world trip with a BBC ﬁ lm crew. The extract describes the part of the trip where he is crossing the Arabian Sea on board an Indian cargo boat.

Our boat, the Al Sharma, really comes to life at ﬁ rst light which, as we are moving east and have not adjusted our watches, comes a little earlier each day. I'm awake today at 5. The wind has dropped and the sea is ﬂ at and calm. Over the reassuring rumble of the engine I can hear the soft sound of singing. I pull myself up on an elbow and look towards the bows. There is Kasim, standing motionless and in perfect silhouette, looking out to sea and chanting. Beside him two or three others are pulling in a sail.

As soon as they see we're awake someone is taken off their duties and sent to arrange us some tea. One of the things this traveller has learnt is that those who have least, are prepared to give most. This crew has given a lot up for us – sleeping space, living space and precious water.

Captain Suleyman takes a look at the sea. 'We are lucky men,' he says. He's rarely seen it quite as calm, and he knows the power of the sea, for in a storm last year, his brother's ship was sunk and eighteen drowned.

We're due South of Karachi. Looking at my map I see that it has taken us a day to travel between the 'A' and the 'R' of 'Arabian Sea'.

Sunday afternoon on the Al Sharma. The crew sit round watching us read or listen to our headsets.

Suddenly there is some sea-borne entertainment. Dahwood at the wheel, has spotted dolphins approaching the boat. They gather ahead of us, lazily and luxuriously rolling around in the bow wave, weaving in and out, diving, backtracking, returning and always keeping just ahead of the boat. The crew encourage them with drumbeats and whistles. As soon as they know there's an audience the dolphins show off shamelessly. For a magical few minutes they stay and play. The sea is so blue and clear it is one of the most remarkable and beautiful sights of the journey so far, rivalled a little later by the raising of the huge sail.

Glossary: Kasim and Dahwood: members of the crew

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Section A: Reading

Answer all questions in this section.

You are advised to spend about one hour on this section.

Read Source 1, the online article, ‘Help us mutiny’: Johnny Depp pays surprise visit to London primary school dressed as Jack Sparrow after letter from girl, 9.

1 (a) List four things we learn about the actor Johnny Depp from the article. (4 marks)

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1 (b) What was interesting and unusual about Johnny Depp’s visit to the primary school? (4 marks)

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Now read Source 2, the RNLI webpage.

2 Explain what you learn about the RNLI lifeboat rescue on Loch Ness.

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show your understanding by explaining in your own words support your ideas using the text. (8 marks)

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Now read Source 3, an extract of travel writing by Michael Palin.

3 How does the writer use language features to inform the reader about his trip and to describe his experiences?

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give some examples of language features to inform give some examples of language features to describe explain the effects. (12 marks)

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4 Choose two of the three sources and compare the way that both texts use presentational features for effect.

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Section B: Writing

Answer both questions in this section.

You are advised to spend about one hour on this section.

You are advised to spend about 25 minutes on question 5.

You are advised to spend about 35 minutes on question 6.

5 Your school or college has set up its own radio station. Write the script for a short radio broadcast informing students about a good place to visit in your area.

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write a script use language to inform.

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6 Write a letter to a well-known person persuading them to visit your school or college for the benefit of the students.

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write a letter use language to persuade.

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