Tuesday 21 April 2015

A2 LL - CUPCAKES QUESTION ON 'YOU KNOW, I'M NOT EVERYBODY'S CUP OF TEA'.

Read the source material which follows and answer both questions:

Text A is from an article entitled ['You Know, I'm Not Everybody's Cup of Tea!'] by [Lynn Barber]

It was first published in the [Observer July 2001].

Read from the middle of page 349, 'I'm already fed up with her...' to the middle of page 351 '...it was really great for my spiritual life.'

You [have been asked to write a short biographical text on Marianne Faithfull as part of the promotional material for the new film Intimacy .]

You should adapt the source material, using your own words as far as possible. Your [text] should be approximately 300 – 400 words in length.

In your adaptation you should:

• use language appropriately to address purpose and audience

• write accurately and coherently, applying relevant ideas and concepts.

(25 marks)

 AND

Question 3

Write a commentary which explains the choices you made when writing your [text] commenting on the following:


• how language and form have been used to suit audience and purpose


• how vocabulary and other stylistic features have been used to shape meaning and achieve particular effects.

You should aim to write about 150 – 250 words in this commentary.

(15 marks)


Here is clip of Marianne Faithfull probably recorded when she was 19 in 1965

Here is a recent clip of her from 2014