Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 June 2024 question paper 1EN0/02

From lines 17-20, identify two activities the writer says are important to medical schools.

Read this extract.

During the day, the job was manageable, if mind-numbing and insanely time-consuming. You turn up every morning for the ‘ward round’, where your whole team of doctors pootles past each of their patients. You trail behind like a hypnotised duckling, your head cocked to one side in a caring manner, noting down every pronouncement from your seniors. Then you spend the rest of your working day filling in forms, making phone calls. Not really what I’d trained so hard for.

From this extract, give two tasks completed by the doctors.

You may use your own words or quotations from the text.

Analyse how the writer uses language and structure to interest and engage the reader.

In your answer you should write about:

• language features and techniques

• structural techniques

• the effect on the reader.

Support your views with detailed reference to the text.

From lines 8-10, identify one feeling Elizabeth has about her friend’s suggestion.

From lines 19-22, identify one reason Elizabeth is told she cannot become a doctor.

In this extract, the writer attempts to demonstrate determination.

Evaluate how successfully this is achieved.

Support your views with detailed reference to the text.

The two texts show people who decide to become doctors.

What similarities do the two people share in these extracts?

Use evidence from both texts to support your answer.

Compare how the writers of Text 1 and Text 2 present ideas and perspectives about choosing a career.

You should write about:

• the ideas and perspectives

• how they are presented

• how they are similar/different.

Support your answer with detailed references to the texts.

Write a section for a guide giving advice to young people on choosing a career.

In your section, you could include:

• important things to consider when choosing a career

• how school, college, family and/or friends can help

• how online support and/or resources can help

as well as any other ideas you might have.

* Your response will be marked for the accurate and appropriate use of vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar.

*9 ‘Setting goals is important in every area of life’.

Write an article for a magazine with the title ‘My ambitions and setting goals to achieve them’.

In your article, you could include:

• what your ambitions for your future are

• what your goals are

• how your goals will help you achieve your ambitions

as well as any other ideas you might have.

* Your response will be marked for the accurate and appropriate use of vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar.