Eduqas – English Language – Baking – Component 1
20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
1 hour 45 minutes
SECTION A: 40 marks
Read carefully the passage, then answer all the questions below.
0 1 Read paragraph 1
List five things you learn about Anne’s feelings and preparations for the cake in these lines. [5]
0 2 Read paragraphs 2 – 4
What impressions does the writer create of Marilla and Anne’s relationship in these lines? [5]
You must refer to the language used in the text to support your answer, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.
0 3 Read paragraphs 5-8
What impressions does the writer create of the moment the guests begin to taste the cake? How does the writer create these impressions? [10]
You must refer to the language used in the text to support your answer, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.
0 4 Read paragraphs 9-11
How does the writer present Anne and Marilla’s reactions in these lines? [10]
You must refer to the language and structure used in the text to support your answer, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.
0 5 To answer this question, read paragraphs 12-13 and consider the whole passage.
“Anne is completely to blame for the mishap and should feel remorse for her actions.”
To what extent do you agree with this view of the incident? [10]
You should write about:
• your thoughts and feelings about how the baking mishap is presented in paragraphs 12-13 and in the passage as a whole
• how the writer has created these thoughts and feelings.
You must refer to the text to support your answer.
SECTION B: 40 marks
In this section you will be assessed for the quality of your creative prose writing skills.
24 marks are awarded for communication and organisation; 16 marks are awarded for vocabulary, sentence structure, spelling and punctuation.
You should aim to write about 450–600 words.
Choose one of the following titles for your writing: [40]
Either,
1 1 a) Write a story which begins:
When the oven pinged, the whole house leaned in to listen…
Or,
1 1 b) The Forgotten Ingredient.
Or,
1 1 c) Write about a time when you, or someone you know, attempted something under pressure.
Or,
1 1 d) Against the Timer.
RESOURCE MATERIAL FOR USE WITH SECTION A
This extract is adapted from a 20th‑century novel. Anne has baked a special cake for the minister’s wife.
The cake did rise and came out of the oven as light and feathery as golden foam. Anne, flushed with delight, clapped it together with layers of ruby jelly and, in imagination, saw Mrs. Allan eating it and possibly asking for another piece! She made that tea table such a thing of beauty that when the minister and his wife sat down to it they exclaimed in chorus over its loveliness.
All went merry as a marriage bell until Anne’s layer cake was passed. Mrs. Allan, having already been helped to a bewildering variety, declined it. But Marilla, seeing the disappointment on Anne’s face, said smilingly:
‘Oh, you must take a piece of this, Mrs. Allan. Anne made it on purpose for you.’
‘In that case I must sample it,’ laughed Mrs. Allan, helping herself to a plump triangle, as did also the minister and Marilla.
Mrs. Allan took a mouthful of hers and a most peculiar expression crossed her face. Marilla saw the expression and hastened to taste the cake.
‘Anne Shirley!’ she exclaimed, ‘what on earth did you put into that cake?’
“Nothing but what the recipe said, Marilla,” cried Anne with a look of anguish. “Oh, isn’t it all right?”
“It’s simply horrible. Anne, taste it yourself. What flavouring did you use?”
“Vanilla,” said Anne, her face scarlet with mortification after tasting the cake. “Only vanilla. Oh, Marilla, it must have been the baking powder.”
‘Baking powder fiddlesticks! Go and bring me the bottle of vanilla you used.’
Anne fled to the pantry and returned with a small bottle labelled “Best Vanilla.” Marilla took it, uncorked it, smelled it.
“Mercy on us, Anne, you’ve flavoured that cake with Anodyne Liniment. I broke the liniment bottle last week and poured what was left into an old empty vanilla bottle. I suppose it’s partly my fault—I should have warned you—but for pity’s sake why couldn’t you have smelled it?”
Anne dissolved into tears under this double disgrace. “I couldn’t—I had such a cold!”
Source: extract taken from Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery https://www.telelib.com/authors/D/DoyleArthurConan/prose/lostworld/lostworld010.html