AQA A-Level English Language 2027 Predicted Practice Paper — Paper 1

Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided. You must write down all the stages in your working.

Section A

Textual variations and representations. Answer all questions in Section A and one question in Section B.

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  Question SECTION-A1 (25 marks)

  SECTION A: TEXTUAL VARIATIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS Read Text A below, an ORIGINAL StudyVector practice text. Text A is an extract from a promotional web page for a fictional outdoor-clothing brand, 'Fellmark', published in 2026. ---- TEXT A ---- Built for the ones who never sit still. Fellmark gear is engineered on the fells, tested in the rain, and stitched to outlast every excuse you can invent. Our new Storm-Line jackets do not merely resist the weather; they laugh at it. Slip one on and feel the difference: taped seams, a hood that actually stays up, and pockets deep enough to swallow your worries. This is not fast fashion. This is kit you keep. Join thousands of walkers, wild swimmers and weekend wanderers who have already made the switch. The outdoors is waiting. What are you waiting for? ---- END OF TEXT A ---- Analyse how language is used in Text A to represent the Fellmark brand and to position the reader. In your answer you should explore how features of language across a range of levels (for example lexis and semantics, grammar, pragmatics, discourse structure) construct this representation. [25 marks]

  (Total for Question SECTION-A1 is 25 marks)
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  Question SECTION-A2 (25 marks)

  Read Text B below, an ORIGINAL StudyVector practice text. Text B is an extract from a personal blog post titled 'My first winter on the allotment', published online in 2026 by an amateur gardener. ---- TEXT B ---- Honestly, nobody warns you about the mud. I arrived in November full of seed catalogues and good intentions, and left, most weekends, looking like I'd wrestled a badger. My neighbour Doreen -- eighty-one, hands like tree roots -- watched me struggle with the compost bin and said only, 'You'll learn, love.' She was right. By February I could tell frost from freeze, and I'd stopped mourning every leaf the pigeons took. There is something quietly enormous about growing your own food. It slows you down. It makes you look up. ---- END OF TEXT B ---- Analyse how language is used in Text B to represent the writer's experience and identity. In your answer you should explore features of language across a range of levels. [25 marks]

  (Total for Question SECTION-A2 is 25 marks)
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  Question SECTION-A3 (20 marks)

  Read Texts A and B again (reproduced in the questions above): Text A, the Fellmark promotional web page, and Text B, the allotment blog post. Compare and contrast how the two texts use language to represent people and activities in the outdoors. In your answer you should consider the influence of contextual factors (such as purpose, audience, mode and genre) on the language choices in each text. [20 marks]

  (Total for Question SECTION-A3 is 20 marks)

Section B

Children's language development. Answer all questions in Section A and one question in Section B.

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  Question SECTION-B1 (30 marks)

  SECTION B: CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Text C below is ORIGINAL illustrative data created for this StudyVector practice paper. Text C is a transcription of spontaneous speech from Maya, aged 2 years 8 months, playing with her father (F) at home. Transcription key: (.) = micropause; CAPITALS = increased volume; [ ] = overlapping/contextual note. ---- TEXT C ---- Maya: daddy look (.) I builded a big tower F: wow you BUILT a really big tower didn't you Maya: I builded it (.) it got two mans on top F: two men on the top Maya: two mans (.) and a doggy [points at toy dog] Maya: doggy want milk F: does the doggy want some milk Maya: yes (.) him thirsty (.) me get it Maya: [tower falls] oh no it BROKED F: oh dear it broke didn't it Maya: I builded it again (.) all better ---- END OF TEXT C ---- Discuss what Text C shows about Maya's language development. In your answer you should explore features of her phonology, lexis, grammar and pragmatics, and evaluate how relevant theories and concepts of children's language development account for the data. [30 marks]

  (Total for Question SECTION-B1 is 30 marks)