Some students don't know how to plan.
Cambridge Exams write their exams specifically to test students ability to plan.
A student who knows how to plan clearly has an advantage over a student who doesn't know how to plan.
This tutorial analyses a question, shows you a well structured model answer and then shows you what the plan for that model looked like.
In this tutorial you will receive clear guidance of how to write a plan so that your writing will become clearer and more logical and as a result, easier to read and understand.
The first thing you need to be able to do is answer the question. This tutorial gives you some guidance on how to answer a question effectively.
Although this tutorial was made before changes were made to the format of th exam in 2015, there is still some useful advice for Cambridge candidates. It helps you to analyse a question for Cambridge exams and how to organise your paragraphs. It also includes some advice on how to start generating ideas for your letters and then how to form paragraphs from these ideas.
The video is analysing how the students have effectively written a general statement and signpost sentence in the introduction and then how they have written their main paragraphs well using topic sentences and linking words. They also write good clear paragraphs because they have good ideas which they develop well by giving examples or reasons or results.
In the First Certificate you may be asked to write a review about a video game, a website, a book, a film or a restaurant among other possibilities. This tutorial offers some suggestions on how to write a review.
This tutorial is looking at how to write an article. It includes advice on how to attract the readers attention. How to speak directly to the reader and how to include energy and enthusiasm in your text.
This is some feedback that was given to a recent review written by a student preparing to take the First for Schools.
This is a tutorial which is looking at how to write an email or letter for a friend for the First for Schools (B2). It looks at how to analyse a question well and then it looks at some simple techniques you can use to write a letter or email to a friend.
It also looks at using 2nd conditionals to give advice and question tags to show that you are close to someone or are sympathetic with someone's situation. Ask your teacher for an edpuzzle exercise to practice 2nd Conditionals and Question Tags
I have included this to show that we can use it to post edpuzzle vids... I just don't know where the answers will go???