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5 Read another article. What is wrong with this one? Can you Write on
improve it?
8 Read the exam tip. Plan your own article in response to the
Last year we stayed in the UK and my parents had task in Ex 3. Brainstorm your ideas about both points with a
booked a week in Devon. I had really been looking partner and make a note of them.
forward to this after working hard for my exams.

But it was a disaster! It rained steadily for six days. exam tip : article p169
I couldn’t believe it. My best trip away was on a day You can make your article interesting by including your
trip to Paris. Although I’m a bit scared of heights, personal feelings and opinions (e.g. The show was really
we went up the Eiffel Tower! Then we had a boat interesting and I had a great time.)

trip down the Seine through the centre of Paris. In Find at least three phrases in the article in Ex 3 that show
Devon, my only views of the sea were through the the writer’s feelings and opinion.
car windows. I also actually felt sorry for my parents
since they had paid to hire a cottage and we didn’t 9 As you plan and write your article, use this checklist to

see much of Devon at all. However, I beat them all make sure you haven’t forgotten the basics!
at Scrabble! When I was in Paris, I even managed to
practise my French on some French students. It was Check you have answered the question and you

really an experience I’ll never forget! support your points with examples and personal
opinions.

6 Find these phrases in the articles. Think up your own Check your organisation: is it clearly organised into
situations to use them in context. Compare in class. paragraphs?
Check your tenses: remember what you have learnt!
can’t wait feel sorry for gain confidence go wrong

can’t believe it look forward to make sb feel better Check your language: have you made your article
be scared of heights spoil the day interesting by including a variety of language, e.g.

adjectives, adverbs, linkers, collocations, phrasal
verbs, idiomatic expressions, and so on?
7 Read the language box and use a suitable linker to make

logical sentences. Check your style: is it neutral and not too formal?

Check your word count: don’t go over or under
explore language the limit.

Check your spelling: don’t make any silly mistakes.
linkers Check your punctuation: full stops, commas,

capital letters .
You can use linkers of concession and contrast and linkers
of cause and result, to join two sections (or more) of a
sentence or to connect two different sentences. 10 Write your article in 140–190 words.

concession and contrast: although, but, even though,
however, though Improve it
cause and result: because, since, so
11 Write the fi rst draft of your article and check it against the
1 we arrived late in the evening, the castle was checklist in Ex 9. Then swap with a partner and do the same
already lit up and it looked fantastic. thing with theirs.
2 I was tired and hungry, I was so happy to see 12 Discuss any areas of improvement with each other and

my friends again after so long.
make any necessary corrections to your article.
3 We were exhausted after walking around all the Oxford

colleges! It was worth it, ! 13 Read your work though one fi nal time before you hand it in
4 I want to see a lot of different places. , for marking.

there isn’t time to go everywhere!
5 By the time we arrived, the restaurant was closed
we had a sandwich in our rooms.

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