Answer: Text A: inheritance can be unwanted, even resented, yet it becomes a source of comfort and connection across generations. Text B: what we inherit is small, unchosen and revealing, and it arrives whether we want it or not. S (mostly): both value inherited habits over possessions and stress that they are not chosen; D in emphasis: A ends in acceptance, B in a more uneasy recognition ('Nobody asks').

Answer: Text A: two paragraphs, past then present, so a childhood memory is answered by an adult moment; the structure enacts the repetition of the habit across generations. Text B: a catalogue that begins with negation ('Not ... Not ...') then lists inherited habits; the movement from big possessions to small gestures reorders what counts as valuable. D: narrative sequence versus reflective list.

Answer: Text A: a confessional first-person adult narrator, wry and self-aware ('with a purity only a ten-year-old can manage'), whose voice softens at the end. Text B: a reflective, slightly dry lyric voice with flashes of humour ('out of spite or love') and a quiet, almost resigned tone ('Nobody asks'). S: both intimate and first person; D: A tells a story, B meditates.

Answer: Text A: the whistle, 'a loose thread of one, four or five notes that went up and never came down', represents worry that is never resolved, and later love. Text B: the hand 'flat against the glass / as if the weather could be calmed like an animal' represents an inherited wish to soothe what cannot be controlled. S: both are bodily habits that express anxiety and care.

Answer: Text A ends with action: 'Then, because she asked me to, I started again.' The habit is chosen and passed on willingly, giving warmth and resolution. Text B ends with a simile, 'like rain through a roof you thought was sound', suggesting inheritance exposes weaknesses we did not know we had. D: A resolves into acceptance; B leaves an image of exposure and inevitability.

Answer: Model: Both 'The Tune' and 'What My Grandmother Left' suggest that our deepest inheritance lies in small, unchosen habits rather than possessions; however, while the prose extract moves from resentment to a tender acceptance of what is passed on, the poem treats inheritance with a more uneasy wonder, as something that arrives whether we are ready or not.

Answer: Any three: 'Both', 'However', 'whereas', 'By contrast', 'Similarly', 'While'.

Answer: It makes a comparative claim in the topic sentence, then moves between the texts within sentences ('whereas', 'By contrast'), pairing evidence from each to support one idea at a time. The final sentence judges the difference in effect, rather than summarising each text separately.

Model answer: Both texts use small, physical images to suggest that what passes between generations is felt in the body before it is understood. In 'The Tune', the father's whistle is described as 'a loose thread of one, four or five notes that went up and never came down', an image of unfinished sound that captures worry which is never resolved. Similarly, the poem's image of a hand held 'flat against the glass' presents an inherited gesture of anxious care, while the simile 'as if the weather could be calmed like an animal' reveals the impossible hope behind it. However, the texts differ in where these images lead. Whereas the extract's thread of sound is picked up by the narrator in her daughter's room, linking three generations in one tune, the poem's images remain solitary, performed at a window or over a letter 'before I have decided what to say'. The poem's closing simile of rain coming 'through a roof you thought was sound' turns inheritance into something that exposes hidden weakness. By contrast, the extract transforms its central image: the whistle that once 'leaked' fear becomes, when the daughter asks for it, a sound of reassurance. Through these contrasting trajectories, the extract suggests that inherited habits can be reclaimed and given new meaning, while the poem presents them as quiet inevitabilities we can only recognise, not refuse.