This document provides instructions and tasks for the GCSE English Language controlled assessment to be completed in January and June 2013. It consists of two sections worth 30 marks each. Section A involves analyzing an extended literary text, with prompts focusing on climaxes, rules/conventions, and characters. Section B involves imaginative writing, including a personal narrative/interview and a short story with additional writing tasks. Teachers must ensure students complete the assessment corresponding to the relevant examination series.

1. THIS IS A NEW SPECIFICATION
Released June 2011
For Assessment Submission
January 2013 and June 2013
GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
A651 Extended Literary Text and Imaginative Writing
* A 6 3 2 1 7 0 1 1 3 *
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
This assessment will be changed every
year. Please check on OCR Interchange
that you have the Controlled Assessment
material valid for the appropriate
assessment session. * A 6 5 1 *
INSTRUCTIONS TO TEACHERS
• Please refer to Section 4 of the English Language Specification and Guide to Controlled
Assessment for instructions on completing the Controlled Assessment Tasks.
• Candidates must complete one task from Section A and one task from Section B.
• Section A is worth 30 marks.
• Section B is worth 30 marks.
• The total number of marks for this paper is 60.
• For Section A, candidates are allowed up to 4 hours.
• For Section B, candidates are allowed up to 4 hours.
• Candidates may make use of copies of the texts, which must be unannotated, and their
own notes as described in the Specification and Guide to Controlled Assessment.
• This document consists of 8 pages. Any blank pages are indicated.
Teachers are responsible for ensuring that assessment is carried out against the
Controlled Assessment set for the relevant examination series (detailed above).
Assessment evidence produced that does not reflect the relevant examination series
will not be accepted.
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Section A Extended Literary Text
THEMED TASK
1 How does the writer create a memorable climax to a text you have studied?
2 How does the writer of a text you have studied explore responses to rules and conventions?
PROSE OR LITERARY NON-FICTION
3 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
How does Steinbeck explore different attitudes to women in the novel?
4 Tsotsi by Athol Fugard
How does Fugard present two or three significant turning points in the development of Tsotsi’s
character?
5 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Why is the news of the elopement of Lydia and Wickham in Chapter 46 such an important moment
and how does it affect what follows in the novel?
6 The Withered Arm and other Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy
How does Hardy make distinctions between social classes such an important issue in one or two
of the stories from the collection you have studied?
7 Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
How does Bryson present the features of two or three of his favourite English places?
8 The Kindness of Strangers by Kate Adie
How does Adie make her account of her experiences in Northern Ireland so striking?
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DRAMA: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
9 Romeo and Juliet
How does Shakespeare present two or three of the older generation and their roles in the play’s
tragic conclusion?
10 Julius Caesar
How does Shakespeare present the attitudes of Caesar and Brutus towards their wives, Calphurnia
and Portia?
POETRY: SELECTED POEMS
11 Wilfred Owen
How does Owen portray the experience of going to fight in two or three poems you have studied?
12 Benjamin Zephaniah
How do Zephaniah’s distinctive voices add to the impact of two or three of his poems?
13 Carol Ann Duffy
Explore how Duffy presents violence in any two or three of her poems.
14 Simon Armitage
Explore some of the ways Armitage presents relationships between parents and children in two or
three of his poems.
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Section B Imaginative Writing
TASK A: Personal and Imaginative Writing
1 Write about a time in your life when you experienced success OR failure OR both.
AND
Either
2 (a) Write the words of a radio interview in which you answer three or four questions on ways of
handling the pressures of success or failure.
Or
(b) Write an article for a school publication about someone who has enjoyed great success.
Or
(c) Write to a friend or family member who has experienced failure, putting the experience into
perspective and suggesting ways forward.
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TASK B: Prose Fiction
1 Write a story with the title “The Last Time”.
AND
Either
2 (a) Write part of the biography or autobiography of a character from your story.
Or
(b) Write the words of an interview with one of the characters about what happens after the end
of OR before the beginning of your story.
Or
(c) Write the words of an informative leaflet for visitors about the area in which your story is set.
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