FCE- WRITING

 Wonderful blog by Rubén Valero:
http://www.rubenvalero.com/english/content/writing-corner-fce-cae

Practice:
https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/Cambridge_First_writing_part1.htm

Practice for writing FORMAL and INFORMAL LETTERS; practice PUNCTUATION:
http://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/fce_writing.php

See if you can correct some mistakes in these texts:
https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/writing/task.htm

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/writing/makeover/archive.htm

JOB APPLICATION LETTERS

A template:

https://www.monster.ca/career-advice/article/cover-letter-sample-part-time-canada

Three examples:

 https://drive.google.com/open?id=17rGm4oYz0O51w6FCfrdf6BdnZ8oSDDWd

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RLTgXDXPTJ5pu85tITBkFpne_1SsZxOc

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YjxO9Fc-Zr3c3_l_lZcg_hx2sLow1vpu

Write an application letter to any for one of these job offers:

1. https://www.snagajob.com/job-seeker/jobs/job-details.aspx?postingid=68955579&item=1&searchid=c127fff0-d542-45eb-7d23-a516d57cce85

2. https://www.snagajob.com/job-seeker/jobs/job-details.aspx?postingid=37020212&item=3&searchid=db50dc78-477a-09aa-8559-9d183147dbcb  

Write a second application letter for any of these job offers:

3. https://www.snagajob.com/job-seeker/jobs/job-details.aspx?postingid=17252086&item=2&searchid=db50dc78-477a-09aa-8559-9d183147dbcb

4. Read the "American Eagle Outfitters" post:

https://www.indeed.com/q-Teen-jobs.html?vjk=07fbd99d940ff067

LETTERS TO EDITORS 

See these examples:
http://cpesamplewritings.blogspot.com/p/how-to-write-letter-to-editor.html

Useful Language:

I am writing about the article on ... , which appeared (in last night's paper).

I am writing with reference to the article you published (in last month's issue).

I have just read your article on ... and I feel I must ...

You raised some issues which I feel strongly about.

At the start of your article, you appear to claim that ...

I am afraid I totally disagree.

I am completely in agreement.

I am sure readers will agree with me when I say that ...

To evaluate:

I was extremely impressed by…

I was rather disappointed by…

While X has much to commend it, I feel that some aspects could be improved.

The problem could easily be solved if ...

I would like to praise the ...

Another area for complaint is …

My overall impression was that …

I am sure that visitors/readers/holidaymakers will thoroughly enjoy ...

While some people will love ... , others may feel less happy.

A major problem is that ...

I was less happy with ...

Making recommendations:

I recommend that we ...

I propose that we ...

We should also ...

I believe that we should ...

We could ...

If we were to… , we could ...

I suggest we… We would then be able to ...


WRITING A SHORT STORY

 

http://writingfce.wikifoundry.com/page/SHORT+STORY