B1 Preliminary · Writing Part 2: article or story
A2 Key y B1 Preliminary (KET, PET) · Cambridge English · B1 Preliminary (PET) Tema 5 3:38 Narración en inglés · Subtítulos en inglés + 中文 quemados en pantalla
Capítulos
Transcripción
Writing part two gives a choice: an article for a magazine, about one hundred words, or a story starting from a given sentence. The memory hook: the article answers the reader; the story moves the reader. Pick the one you can write better today, in thirty seconds of deciding, because there is no prize for choosing the harder one and the clock is a budget.
The article answers the title question in line one: my favourite place is the school roof at sunset. Then two reasons: what you see, how it feels. Close with an invitation: go there once; you'll see. An article is not an essay; it is a magazine page — direct, personal, a little lively, and you-questions are welcome. Correct and boring is a C; correct and alive is a B.
Pause and choose. Autumn is the best season here, and the ginkgo trees are the proof. The question answered in line one, with personality. The template opening — nowadays, with the development of — is instantly recognisable and quietly penalised, and the other two options are warming up while the reader leaves.
The story gives you its first sentence: the door opened slowly, and I couldn't believe my eyes. Inherit its tense, place and mood — past, at the door, surprise — and continue it, never restart it. The A2 story machine still works: background in the continuous, events in the simple, one feeling per paragraph. And end with a turn: I never found out who left the key; I never needed to. One scene, one moment, one turn; a hundred words is short, and a whole week reads like a timetable.
Pause and choose. I picked up the box and opened it quickly. The given sentence set the past, and the story follows it. The present-tense drift is the mark-loser, as always, and the will and the habitual perfect belong to other stories.
Two last guards. Choose one task and commit; marking both costs you the better mark, because only one is marked. And the bagu template — nowadays, with the development of, in conclusion — is instantly recognisable and quietly penalised. Write like a person with a favourite place. The article answers in line one; the story inherits the given sentence; and the decision takes thirty seconds, not five minutes.
Try it. The article: what's the best season in your city — answer in line one, two reasons, an invitation. The story: when I opened the box, I found something I had lost three years ago. The questions to ask the sentence are the story: what was it, how did it leave, how does it feel to hold it again. One scene, one moment, one turn, and the flashback works here: I had lost it three years ago.
Pause for four checks. The better-today task, chosen in thirty seconds. The article answers the title question in line one. The story inherits the given sentence: tense, place, mood. And one scene, one turn, about one hundred words. Next topic: the B1 listening, detail and short extracts.