AQA 8700 Paper 2: Slum Dwellings Comparison

A PowerPoint that demonstrates the structure of GCSE Language Paper 2, Section A (AQA 8700/2) and the skills that examiners are looking for.

Source A is a Guardian article entitled ‘Filthy water poisons the people of Dhaka’s festering slums’ (Link provided on slide)
Source B is an extract from Henry Mayhew’s ‘A Visit to the Cholera Districts in Bermondsey’, published in 1849.

This PowerPoint covers Section A only but there are sample answers included for each question, 1-4.

If you can obtain a copy of the 8700/2 mark scheme, you may wish to encourage learners to mark the sample responses.

Appropriate for middle-upper ability learners.