Remember there are 2 parts so you need to split your time equally. In each part you must write 140-190 words.
Part 1
Essay
Part 2
Review
Story
Formal letter
Informal letter
Article
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Informal letter extension question
You have received this email from an English-speaking boy called Simon.
Hello,
I would like to get to know someone from your country and a friend has told me that you would like to practise your English. Perhaps we could email each other. Could you tell me a bit about yourself and your family? Could you suggest how we might meet sometime in the future?
Thanks,
Simon
Write your email in 140-190 words in an appropriate style.
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Extension Use of English
UOE Part 3
Freud and Dreams
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Sigmund Freud
is regarded as the (0) ..... of psychoanalysis. His work has been (28)
..... in many areas but he is perhaps best known for having drawn our (29)
..... to dreams, which he believed were clues to inner conflicts. The fact
that a dream is (30) ..... a disguised
expression of what is happening In the unconscious mind means that it is
difficult for the dreamer to understand its (31) ..... Freud believed
that the sleeping mind resorted to a whole range of unconscious wishes in
forms which would prevent the dreamer from having any (32) ..... of
their true nature. In Freud’s View, interpreting the meaning of the dream
required a psychoanalyst with an expert (33) ..... of how dreams
disguise desires. The psychoanalyst’s lack of personal (34) ..... in
the dream would enable him to see the dream objectively.
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FOUND INFLUENCE
ATTEND
ESSENTIAL
SIGNIFY
AWARE
KNOW
INVOLVE
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According to
Freud, dreams use a (35) ..... symbolic language quite different from
that of waking life, but the fact is there is no hard (36) ….. for
believing that dreams really do reflect our unconscious wishes. Nevertheless,
Freud (37) ….. made a major contribution to twentieth-century thought
and many useful insights into psychological processes have been
gained through his work.
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MYSTERY
EVIDENT DOUBT
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Monday, 13 February 2017
Extension Essay task
You must answer this question. Write your answer in 140- 190 words in an appropriate style on the separate answer sheet.
Your teacher has asked you to write your response to the following statement taken from a recent newspaper article:
Do you agree that community service works better than fines?
Notes
Write about: - effort and time
- lesson learned
- ………………(your own idea)
Monday, 6 February 2017
Story writing
If you
enjoy writing stories, you have a good imagination and lots of ideas, writing a
STORY in part 2 of the FCE writing exam is a good choice for you.
Your
story will be better and will get more marks if you include…
1. Three different tenses. You want to show the examiner
that you know the story telling tenses, which are:- a) Simple Past b) Past
Continuous c) Past Perfect.
Here’s an example: It was raining. (Past continuous) Billy hadn’t eaten for two days. (Past perfect) He saw some apples. He decided to steal them. (Simple past).
Of course, in order to use these tenses you absolutely MUST know all your irregular verbs!
Here’s an example: It was raining. (Past continuous) Billy hadn’t eaten for two days. (Past perfect) He saw some apples. He decided to steal them. (Simple past).
Of course, in order to use these tenses you absolutely MUST know all your irregular verbs!
2. Adjectives: It was raining. Billy hadn’t
eaten for two days, so he was wet, hungry and miserable. He saw some delicious,
red apples. He
decided to steal them.
3. Adverbs: It was raining hard.
Billy hadn’t eaten for two days, so he was wet, hungry and miserable. He saw
some delicious red apples and quickly decided to steal them.
4. Direct speech: “Hey, you!” shouted the shopkeeper, “I
know you, Billy Brown! I’ll tell your mum!”
5. Rich vocabulary, good grammar, detail
and idiomatic expressions:Examples: Quick as a flash – soaking
wet – starving hungry –to grab – to pass away – an idea popped into his head –
to go straight (to hospital) (home) – to have a little chat
EXAMPLE
QUESTION & ANSWER:
Write a
STORY in an appropriate style. Your story must start or finish with the words: Grandpa Jo would be proud of him.
It was
raining hard. Billy hadn’t eaten for two days, so he was soaking wet and very
miserable. Passing a greengrocer’s, he noticed some delicious, red apples . He
quickly decided to steal them. He grabbed two and started to run.
“Hey, you!” shouted the shopkeeper, “I know you, Billy Brown! I’ll tell your mum!”
Billy ran to the park where he found a dry place to sit and eat. He wasn’t worried about the shopkeeper telling his mum. He didn’t care about his mum, his teachers or the police. He only cared about Grandpa Jo, and Grandpa Jo had passed away last week leaving Billy to face the world alone.
Billy didn’t know what to do. He was 17 and had no money, no qualifications, no family – except his mother who he rarely saw. He closed his eyes and thought about his granddad. Suddenly an idea popped into his head. He walked back into town and went straight into a small office where there was a Union Jack in the window. “Can I help you?” asked the man in uniform at the desk. “Yes”, said Billy, “I want to join the army.”
“I see” replied the officer. “I think you’d better sit down, then. We need to have a little chat.”
Billy sat down and smiled. He knew that, wherever he was, Grandpa Jo would be proud of him.
“Hey, you!” shouted the shopkeeper, “I know you, Billy Brown! I’ll tell your mum!”
Billy ran to the park where he found a dry place to sit and eat. He wasn’t worried about the shopkeeper telling his mum. He didn’t care about his mum, his teachers or the police. He only cared about Grandpa Jo, and Grandpa Jo had passed away last week leaving Billy to face the world alone.
Billy didn’t know what to do. He was 17 and had no money, no qualifications, no family – except his mother who he rarely saw. He closed his eyes and thought about his granddad. Suddenly an idea popped into his head. He walked back into town and went straight into a small office where there was a Union Jack in the window. “Can I help you?” asked the man in uniform at the desk. “Yes”, said Billy, “I want to join the army.”
“I see” replied the officer. “I think you’d better sit down, then. We need to have a little chat.”
Billy sat down and smiled. He knew that, wherever he was, Grandpa Jo would be proud of him.
So – to
recap – 3 tenses/adverbs/adjectives/direct speech/idiomatic expressions/rich
vocabulary ……and always double check your grammar & spelling
Monday, 23 January 2017
Monday, 16 January 2017
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Another letter of application task
Task Type: Letter of Application
Question
You have seen the following job advertisement on the noticeboard of your local language school:
You have seen the following job advertisement on the noticeboard of your local language school:
| CLUB ORGANISER NEEDED! (Monday and Wednesday evenings only) Our language school is looking for a person to help organise a Film Club for students of English. Our Film Club will meet twice a week to watch a film in English followed by a discussion of the film.
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Write your letter of application to the school owner (around 140-190 words).
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