It's Spotify Wrapped Season

This page allows for you to practice skills relevant to Paper 1 by walking you through, this practice paper. (You can also find the original article here.) Consider practicing the paper by yourself before engaging with the skill-building exercises below.

Accessing the text

To make sure that our response to the guided question aligns with the intentions and focus of the prescribed text, we need to take a moment to understand the key aspects of the text. You can use the mnemonic PAST to help with this:

P - Purpose
A - Audience

S - Subject

T - Text Type & Title

Don’t forget to include this information in your introduction.

Identifying The Purpose

Identifying The Audience

Identifying The Opinion

*This is required because this specifically asked for in the guiding question. Therefore, this becomes your Level 3.

Lend a Helping Hand

The guiding question asks students to show how the author's opinion is expressed through tone. Below, there are five sets of activities that focus on five different tones in the text. For each set of activities, there is an activity that helps you identify a tone, and there is another activity to help you prove that the tone conveys the opinion with relevant analysis.

Identifying Tone & Presenting Evidence

Building an Argument with Analysis

Identifying Tone & Presenting Evidence

Building an Argument with Analysis

Identifying Tone & Presenting Evidence

Building an Argument with Analysis

Identifying Tone & Presenting Evidence

Building an Argument with Analysis

Identifying Tone & Presenting Evidence

Building an Argument with Analysis

Completing the Essay

The Thesis Statement

The Introduction

The Conclusion

Read a Sample Answer

Here is a sample answer to this question.

Make sure that you've practiced all of the skills above before reading this answer.

Have a Go For Yourself

Here is another article, "Spotify’s biggest sin? Its algorithms have pushed artists to make joyless, toothless music" by John Harris, which is about similar topic. Apply the skills that you've learnt from this page to answer one of the following questions:

How and to what effect does tone express the author’s opinion in this text?
How do authorial choices and textual features achieve a particular purpose?
How do authorial choices and textual features appeal to a particular audience?

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