Essay Writing

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Essay writing

Cambridge Style

What you need this lesson

Your Cambridge book page 32-3

Your Learner Portfolio: 

                 - new tab: 

                                         - Essay Writing

Cambridge First Exams

Reading and use of English exam: 1 hour 15 minutes (Test Week 1)

Writing: 1 hour 20 minutes (Test Week 2)

Listening: 40 minutes

Speaking: 14 minutes

Writing exam

Part 1: compulsory: 

writing an essay

Part 2: Choose 1 of 3 questions

 writing an article, a letter or email, a report, a review

Which topic has the student left out of the essay?

1. animals kept in zoos
2. wildlife under threat
3. own idea

Gap

Linking word

for this reason

To sum up

as well as discussing

In this way

as for agriculture

Task

In your learner portfolio, create a new tab for essay writing if you don't have one yet. Take 5 minutes to write a new paragraph of 30-40 words to cover the missing content.

a cow or a goat

creatures

Wildlife

Them

They

Essay structure

Introduction: introduce your statement

Body paragraph 1: give arguments to support your statement

Body paragraph 2

Body paragraph 3

Conclusion: summarise how you supported your statement

Body paragraph structure

Point

Example 

Explanation

Body paragraph structure

Point 

We no longer need zoos to teach people about animals.

Example 

When zoos first opened, they had a real purpose - to educate people. there was no television and people got to see animals from other places. 

Explanation

Now we don't have the same need. We can learn about animals online or through documentaries. So we can close zoos and let animals live in the wild instead. 

Body paragraph structure

          We no longer need zoos to teach people about animals. When zoos first opened, they had a real purpose - to educate people. there was no television and people got to see animals from other places. Now we don't have the same need. We can learn about animals online or through documentaries. So we can close zoos and let animals live in the wild instead. 

Writing your own short essay

Read the exam question on page 33 

and write an essay of 140-190 words, 

following the advice given. 

Look back at exercise 

2, 4 and 5 for 

useful vocabulary

This is homework for Tuesday. Please hand in your work on Google classroom AND add the essay to your portfolio in the tab 'essay writing.'

Today

Update on the testweek essay

Peer review essay

Assessment criteria

Content

This focuses on how well the candidate has fulfilled the task, in other words, if they have done what they were asked to do.

Communicative Achievement

This focuses on how appropriate the writing is for the task, and whether the candidate has used the appropriate register.

Organisation

This focuses on the way the candidate puts together the piece of writing, in other words, if it is logical and ordered.

Language

This focuses on vocabulary and grammar. It includes the range of language as well as how accurate it is.

Peer review

In groups of 2:

- Read each other's essay

- Complete the document shared with you on classroom with feedback for your classmate

We will first look at an example together.