`Writing Essays

Lots of good advice on high-level essay writing here.

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CPE - Essays

Lots of good advice on high-level essay writing here.

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Editing and Proofing

Everyone's done some homework now, so you might find your teacher recommending more checking.

Try this page for some editing and proofreading practice.

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New in Vocabulary!

We've updated our Vocabulary page with links to various tools including some from the British Council.

Go here!

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Proposals 3 of 3

Our minicourse concludes with work on structure here.

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Essays 3 of 3: Structure.

Final part of our minicourse on structure. Take a look at this video class.

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Proposals 2 of 3: Vocabulary

Following on from last week's video, go here for work on vocab for proposals.

Next week: Structure.

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Letter or Email? Not a problem!

Jane's guide to writing slips

Here's an interesting article from the BBC - some real world advice on emails - some, maybe most of it could be useful to you - thinking about what a native speaker reader is expecting to hear.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24609533






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Updated - Listening Activities

We've updated our Listening Activites page, but we'd be very grateful if there are any problems with link - please let us know!

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Essays 2 of 3: Structure

Go here to start working on essay structure.

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Proposals 1 of 3: A summary

Go here to try an online video lesson helping you learn about writing proposals.

Comeback next week for a follow up exercise on vocabulary.

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Essays 1 of 3: Watch and Listen

Go here to watch an introduction to essay writing, ideal for Proficiency. Interesting for FCE and CAE.

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First - Sentence Transformations

If you've just started using Objective First Certificate, you'll know that Uniyt 1.1 introduces sentence transformations. Practice is important, so here's a link to some to try out - answers are at the bottom of the page.

http://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/FCE/Part4/fce_key_word_transformations_1.php

and

http://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/FCE/Part4/fce_key_word_transformations_2.php

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FCE - Sentence Transformations

If you've just started using Objective First Certificate, you'll know that Uniyt 1.1 introduces sentence transformations. Practice is important, so here's a link to some to try out - answers are at the bottom of the page.

http://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/FCE/Part4/fce_key_word_transformations_1.php

and

http://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/FCE/Part4/fce_key_word_transformations_2.php

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Writing for Purpose

Writing for purpose - composing quality writing work for academic or profesional reasons.

A British Council course is here.

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Writing for Purpose

Writing for purpose - composing quality writing work for academic or profesional reasons.

A British Council course is here.

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What we learnt about setence transformations

You can't change the word in bold.
Make the meanings the same (think about the detail of it!).
Min 2 words.
Max 5 words.
Check your words connect before and after the space.
Read your final sentence carefully to check if it's logical and the grammar's OK.

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Formal Letters

Formal Letters are key to First, Advanced and Proficiency.

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Formal Letters

Formal Letters are key to FCE, CAE and CPE!

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Hello again!

New this month:

We have work on Essays.
A series on writing proposals.
Work on writing for Academic purposes.
Writing formal letters.

Stay tuned - new material starts this Friday!

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First Student's Work

A part 1 enquiry letter.

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FCE Student's Work

A part 1 enquiry letter.

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Test yourself: formal/informal

Visit Banana (yes, Banana) for some formal/informal examples to play with.

http://es.scribd.com/doc/3877648/Writing-Informal-and-Formal-Letters-1-Ev87

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Advanced Student's Work

A CAE level proposal

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CAE Student's Work

A CAE level proposal

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First Student's Work

A second FCE level report:

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FCE Student's Work

A second FCE level report:

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First Use of English, Pt 1 Advice

Advice from Level 6 on Use of English Part 1

Why "Do Part 2 then look at Part 1 again"? 

Experience suggests that candidates often see mistakes given some space from the question - and more often change wrong >>> right than the opposite.

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FCE UoE, Pt 1 Advice

Advice from Level 6 on Use of English Part 1

Why "Do Part 2 then look at Part 1 again"? 

Experience suggests that candidates often see mistakes given some space from the question - and more often change wrong >>> right than the opposite.

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Advanced Student's Work

A CAE report.

FRANKFURT’S CITY CENTRE ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATION 

The Env Sit in Frank Cit Cen (possessives in geography!)

Introduction

The purpose of this report is to outline the recent actions done in Frankfurt to reduce the use of energy and natural resources, while evaluating their effectiveness. It will also consider likely future developments in this matter. excellent!

Public buildings

The regional government has set up various measures(colocation doesn’t work)  to reduce pollution and energy wastewf. Heating in public buildings has been limited to 21C and has to be turned off during weekends. Energy saving plans for universities and public companies helped bringingg down monthly energy expenses by 20%.

Recycle & Reduce

Another approach has been the street marketing campaigns undergone at busy Benedict’s Square. Their aim was to make people aware of the importance of very good! saving water and recycling on a daily basis, trying to go ahead and show it as a green life style. These kind of campaigns have had a great impact on Trier’s citizens because of their unconventional methods.

Traffic congestion

A popular way for cutting down pollution in cities is the overcoming of automobile dependence, dependence on... and with that purpose a whole new circuit of bike lanes was finished completed is better in November. The project of a CO2 free city centre has found great acceptance, and cooperation with a local e-bike’s factory has been highly successful so far.

 Future developments

The outlook great for our city is optimistic, however there is still much to be done. I would strongly recommend start planning the introduction of renewable energy systems like wind power and solar collectors, among others. Improvements in environmental issues should always be in our city’s agenda.

5/5. Tried to find a way to go for 4, but it’s excellent. Very nice indeed! . vocab, word order, collocations all very good, so even the ones that don’t come off are not a problem. Better than some of the English translations you find on Madrid government publicity.

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CAE Student's Work

A CAE report.

FRANKFURT’S CITY CENTRE ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATION 

The Env Sit in Frank Cit Cen (possessives in geography!)

Introduction

The purpose of this report is to outline the recent actions done in Frankfurt to reduce the use of energy and natural resources, while evaluating their effectiveness. It will also consider likely future developments in this matter. excellent!

Public buildings

The regional government has set up various measures(colocation doesn’t work)  to reduce pollution and energy wastewf. Heating in public buildings has been limited to 21C and has to be turned off during weekends. Energy saving plans for universities and public companies helped bringingg down monthly energy expenses by 20%.

Recycle & Reduce

Another approach has been the street marketing campaigns undergone at busy Benedict’s Square. Their aim was to make people aware of the importance of very good! saving water and recycling on a daily basis, trying to go ahead and show it as a green life style. These kind of campaigns have had a great impact on Trier’s citizens because of their unconventional methods.

Traffic congestion

A popular way for cutting down pollution in cities is the overcoming of automobile dependence, dependence on... and with that purpose a whole new circuit of bike lanes was finished completed is better in November. The project of a CO2 free city centre has found great acceptance, and cooperation with a local e-bike’s factory has been highly successful so far.

 Future developments

The outlook great for our city is optimistic, however there is still much to be done. I would strongly recommend start planning the introduction of renewable energy systems like wind power and solar collectors, among others. Improvements in environmental issues should always be in our city’s agenda.

5/5. Tried to find a way to go for 4, but it’s excellent. Very nice indeed! . vocab, word order, collocations all very good, so even the ones that don’t come off are not a problem. Better than some of the English translations you find on Madrid government publicity.

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First Student's Work

An FCE Report

FCE Student's Work

An FCE Report

First - application letters

Watch a video on First application letters here:

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FCE - application letters

Watch a video on FCE application letters here:

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First Student's Work

An FCE Article

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FCE Student's Work

An FCE Article

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