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IMPORTANT INVENTIONS
Inventions have affected all our lives!
Write us an article about one invention, explaining why
you think it is important and saying how it has affected
your own life.
The best article will be published in the magazine.
Imagine you are going to answer this question. With a partner, discuss:
How many inventions are you going to write about? Which invention(s) would be interesting to
write about? What information must you include about the invention(s)?
What title could you give for your article?
How are you going to introduce the topic?
How are you going to organise your ideas into paragraphs? What are you going to write about
first? Second?
Who is the reader? What style you will use? What type of language could you use?
What register is appropriate?
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Band 4
Essays
the opening paragraph should establish the general topic of the composition and the conclusion
should give a balanced personal comment on the topic. There is more than one way of
structuring this essay:
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introduction, arguments for, arguments against, conclusion
introduction, one argument for, several arguments against and obvious conclusion (as
in the sample text here)
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introduction, argument for or against only, conclusion
Should shops be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week? I totally disagree with it.
Of course, if shops were open all day all time, it would be very convenient for us. There are
some times when we want something suddenly, and how nice it would be if we could get that
exact thing immediately!
But think about the other aspect of it. If shops had to be open all the time, someone would have
to work for those shops. Then people would have fewer holidays because of the more work that
has to be done, and it would not be good for our mental health. What is more, to open the shops
even at night, we would have to consume much more electric energy, and it is not environmental
at all, needless to say. Contrary, what we should do is to cut down our energy as much as
possible to protect our earth.
To sum up, shops should NOT be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I think wed better
consider about our environment first, before meeting our selfish and individual demands.
FCE essay comments
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Would be well informed and interested.
Short stories
Exercise 1
Read the following text and complete the gaps with the words and phrases in the box.
paragraphs
middle
adjectives and adverbs
end
sequence
beginning
linking words and phrases
prompt sentence
before
verb tenses
What makes a good story?
A story should have a 1) ______________, a 2) ______________ and an 3) ______________.
Think about how the story begins, the main events and how it ends. Do this 4)
______________ beginning to write your story. As with other types of writing, you should use 5)
______________ to organise the text into sections.
The short story tasks in the exam are based on a 6) ______________, which students have to
put at the beginning or the end of their story. The story must be logically linked to this.
Help the reader follow the narrative by introducing events and linking them together by using
7) ______________, e.g. before, afterwards, while.
In a narrative, it is important to use a variety of 8) ______________, e.g. past simple, past
continuous, past perfect, to 9) ______________ the events in a story and to put them into
perspective. Make the story interesting by adding details and colour; e.g. expand short
sentences by adding description, for example using 10) ______________.
key:
1) beginning
2) middle
3) end
4) before
5) paragraphs
6) prompt sentence
7) linking words and phrases
8) verb tenses
9) sequence
Your English teacher has asked you to write a story for the college magazine. Your story
must begin with the following words:
Alice knew that it was going to be a very special day for her.
Write your story.
Alice Knew that it was going to be a very special day for her.
She knew her name as she had been hearing it for the last nine months.
She thought it was a beautiful name and she felt very happy each time somebody
said her name.
That day she felt really strange, she moved as she never did before. The most
confussing thing was that even though, it had been her room, her space she felt she
didn't fix there any more as she was bored with the same things all the time.
Suddenly, she started hearing people shouting like in a real rush but happy at the
same time; she hasn't any idea about what was going on in that external world and
her desires of getting out of that unbearable place were increasing each time. She
had to work very hard for it but finally she succeed, she did, she was out. It was
like a shock but a great adventure and she just cryed and cryed
Now she is at home with her parents who take care of her all the time. Besides she
has bring a lot of happiness to many other people. Certainly it was a very special
day.
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Would be able to follow the storyline.
Band 4