FCE and CAE Reviews - Extra Exercise

Find a reminder of how to enhance review writing with extra adjectives or adverbs here.

Advanced: Essay Planning Advice

Some keywords when writing essays. Can you predict the advice they come from?

Outline what at the start?

Start with an interesting what?

Main paragraphs start with topic what?

In main paragraphs, give detailed what?

After your main paragraphs, you may have a summery or a summary one?

You might finish with...what?

Go here for one method you might like to adapt to CAE length.

CAE Task 2.6 Essay Advice

Some keywords when writing essays. Can you predict the advice they come from?

Outline what at the start?

Start with an interesting what?

Main paragraphs start with topic what?

In main paragraphs, give detailed what?

After your main paragraphs, you may have a summery or a summary one?

You might finish with...what?

Go here for one method you might like to adapt to CAE length.

Are you alone?

FCE Weekly Task 2.3 Feedback

At FCE, don't

- use text language like "u"

- use short forms like "gonna" and "gimme"

- better to mostly avoid three dots...

(also avoid Email abreviations like TIA, HTH, BTW)

First: Essays

Some questions about essays for you to think about.

1. How should you start and finish your first paragraph?
2. What could you put at the start of the following paragraphs?
3. If you give examples in your paragraphs, what should they be?
4. What does the final paragraph do?
5. What could come after the final paragraph?

Go here for advice on what to put in your paragraphs. Remember that at First you have a word limit of around 150, so your number of paragraphs will be restricted to 4 or maybe 5.

FCE Weekly Task 2.1: Essays

Some questions about essays for you to think about.

1. How should you start and finish your first paragraph?
2. What could you put at the start of the following paragraphs?
3. If you give examples in your paragraphs, what should they be?
4. What does the final paragraph do?
5. What could come after the final paragraph?

Go here for advice on what to put in your paragraphs. Remember that at FCE you have a word limit of around 180, so your number of paragraphs will be restricted to 4 or maybe 5.

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