From there you can move to section B of the same component where 40 marks are awarded for creative prose writing of between 450 and 600 words. You could have real fun playing around with the openings of famous novels: why not tell them to write 200 words using these first lines as their...
keeping information from someone • give reasons why it was being hidden and the impact on the person hiding and being hidden from • use appropriate techniques for creative writing, e.g. vocabulary, imagery, language techniques • use a voice that attempts to make the piece interestin...
That is only my opinion, of course, but so many things go wrong with creative writing in exams. Let me tell you a true story. Sarah was one of my students. She worried like mad at the beginning of the year. She was an adult student. She had not got that elusive C grade but wa...
• Note taking and summary writing • Two longer writing tasks of approximately 200 words each, in formal and informal register. Listening: • Listening to six short scenarios and answering questions on each • Listening to longer texts and completing gaps in forms or charts • Listening ...
for example missing measure words ● infrequent errors that do not distract the reader from the content and which result in coherent writing ● minor errors in characters such as a misformed stroke in a character, or errors of proportion/balance/alignment between the radicals within a character. ...
Force can be linked with anything really, so my concepts were generated randomly without any restrictions. From brainstorming, I listed words relating to forces such as physics, movement, nature, strong/gentle, internal/external, and anti-force. I tried to avoid topics that are cliché. ...
Silicon Valley has taken us halfway there already with English. Those bright, colourful, creative strips of potential – words themselves – are being so clumsily twisted and routinely mangled by technology, that unless the guardians of English – all those teachers who care passionately about langu...
Each title in the collection contains 30 essential first words – perfect for helping writers to develop early language skills. The wipe-clean pages allow children to trace each word by following the dotted lines, then to write it freehand again and again ...