Links to practise for the writing exam:

 Get ready for the written mediation exam:

Get ready for the written production and coproduction exam:

Marking Criteria 

 
 
Letters
Articles/ Blog entries:

EF p 190. An Article about Childhood. Word Formation 

Open World p 181. Fashion Trends. Article. Word Formation

On Screen p 53. ALL FOOLS’ DAY - 1ST of APRIL. Extra Cloze 

Speakout Advanced p 35. My Dream House. Blog Entry

Empower p 34 . A World without Money. Blog Entry. Extra Writing

MEH p 2. Article on how clothing may affect our behaviour: sample paragraphs

Objective Proficiency p 158. Writing an Article: Task instructions:Ways to save our planet

Objective Proficiency p 45. Article: Consumerism. Writing: Task instructions

Outcomes Advanced p 47. Performance Task Assessment List For a Blog Entry. Writing: Task instructions: travel

 

Guidebook entries:

Guidebook entry

Open World p 34. A Contribution To a Guidebook On Food Trends. Word Formation

Introducing Lisbon. Guidebook Entry. Extra Word Formation.

Open World p 34. Introducing Your Favourite Travel Destination. Guidebook Entry. Task

 
 
Proposals:

 

Useful tips:

- Have your own commonplace book/ bullet journal :

Keep a notebook with interesting sentences, quotations, vocabulary, grammar structures, collocations, adverbs, idioms, phrasal verbs, linking devices,... which you can then use in your future writings.

 

- The use of linking devices helps you not only to organise your compositions but it may also help you to come up with ideas.


USEFUL LANGUAGE FOR WRITING 

LIST OF CONNECTORS, LINKS, TRANSITIONAL WORDS AND PHRASES

Linking Devices. 

Linking Devices 2

Linking Words 

 

 - How to develop a paragraph?

A possible formula is: SEEC: State, Elaborate, Exemplify, Conclusion but not necessarily all of them in a single paragraph.

1. State:

One or two sentences to state an issue: topic sentence.

2. Elaborate:

Two or three sentences to elaborate and clarify what we mean by this issue: supporting sentences.

3. Exemplify:

Two or three sentences where we provide some sort of exemplification

4. Conclusion

Examples:

State: One way we can help the environment is by choosing goods with less packaging. Exemplify: For example, in the supermarket, we should buy fruit and vegetables loose rather than pre-packed. Hopefully businesses will gradually realise that customers do not want unnecessary packaging. Similarly, we could ask the government to change the law so that all packaging must be recyclable. Conclusion: Doing these two things could save millions of trees and reduce pollution in our oceans.

 

State: The most effective way of helping our planet would be to switch to plant-based agriculture. Elaborate: Farm animals, especially cows, produce a lot of greenhouse gases and many forests are cut down to provide animals with land for grazing, increasing greenhouse gas levels. Exemplify: Growing food plants instead would actually help to reduce these levels in the atmosphere.Conclusion: It is so easy to cook excellent vegetarian and vegan dishes these days that we no longer need to eat so much meat, and anyone can do it. Moreover, it would be cheaper for shoppers


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