CAE Writing - paper 2- A report

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Welcome Back!!!!

Did everyone have a great holiday? 

Any disasters? 

Report writing

We will write the REPORT in class - formative assessment

next Tuesday. You may bring the plan that we will create this week in class.

Paper 2 - Part 2 of the CAE Written Exam

You will be asked to select one question from a choice of three and complete the task given in 220 - 260 words. 

Things that you will be asked to choose from are; letters, reports, proposals and reviews. 

I think reviews and proposals are a good choice!

Key points:

Who are you writing to?

What would be an appropropriate style for a report? 

Key points:

What do you need to mention? 

• Sufficient educational value for teenagers ?
• ouline any problems
• Would it be suitable for other age groups? 

Layout: Use subheadings

Introduction 

The aim of this report is to/ The following report relates to the ...........Blah blah blah 

Educational value

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Problems 

Blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah

Suitability for other age groups

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Conclusion

To sum up / Taking everything in to consideration/ On balance, I am of the opnion .......blah blah blah blah

Dear Sir,

I'm writing this report about the holiday. 

• Introduction
• The aim of this report is to evaluate the wildlife holiday that took place in January 2018.

Can you find three mistakes

• Use subheadings-underline if you want to
  

• Use your own words to say why you are writing
  
• Formal tone

HOMEWORK CHECK

finish exercises 1-2-3 before the bell goes - OTHERWISE IT IS HOMEWORK

ANSWERS IN NOTEBOOK

Brain storming for the body paragrphs:

Sufficient educational value 

Problems

Suitability for other age groups

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finish exercises 1-2-3 before the bell goes - OTHERWISE IT IS HOMEWORK

ANSWERS IN NOTEBOOK

Lesson Two

Junior Speaking Competition

Wednesday the 14th of May

De Vinci College Purmerend

Guus - Henna

Who else would like to go? 

Brain storming for the body paragrphs:

Sufficient educational value 

Problems

Suitability for other age groups

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finish exercises 1-2-3 before the bell goes - OTHERWISE IT IS HOMEWORK

ANSWERS IN NOTEBOOK

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1. What sort of answers have you come up with? 

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3. WHO IS THE REPORT FOR? 

You are an employee or an international organization.

You are writing the report  for your boss

You should include information about: Sufficient educational value 

Problems

Suitability for other age groups

4. Do exercise 4

What has the writer done correctly? 

• b-c-d-e
• What was wrong with "a"? 
• shouldn't have used letter conventions

5. complete with the preposition

Does a or f conclude a report? 

Re-write the first sentence in the report

5. prepositions - key

• a. of (introduce)
• b. in (conclude)
• c. up (conclude)
• d.  to (introduce)
• e. into (conclude)
• f. on (conclude)

6. The layout - Key

5>4>6>2>3>1

Introduction

Education

Guides

Activities

Accommodation

Conclusion

FINAL LESSON: Report Writing

7. Choose the verb form - class activity ( repeat of Gerund/Infinitive p171)

8. Write a plan

8. Make a short plan

This is the only information that you can have with you next Tuesday for the formative writing assignment

Always make a plan

Big mistake not to make a plan....Spend 3-5 minutes on it as otherwise you might get half way through and realize it's not properly structured.

Each topic point deserves its own paragraph which gets us to three paragraphs so far. You should also include a title and an introduction to state the purpose of your report as well as a final paragraph to conclude the report and make recommendations based on the main points. All in all, that leaves us with five paragraphs:

You should include information about:

Title

Introduction

 Sufficient educational value 

Problems

Suitability for other age groups

Conclusion / Recommendations

1st Body Paragraph

Use subheadings in a report - (never in a letter or an essay)

Edit your notes to write only about this topic in the 1st  body paragraph

Educational value

First of all/Firstly, ..... The first observation to make is (concerns) 

In fact /According to (the majority of respondents) 

2nd body paragraph

Secondly/ Furthermore/Moreover

In spite of (the fact [that])/Despite (the fact [that]) + Noun, 

3rd body paragraph

Finally/ Lastly / In fact

Conclusion

Do not add new issues here.

Keep it short

Don't end the report like a letter.

Yours sincerely

Susan Corrigan

Some nice expressions include the following:

I would recommend/suggest (that) …

The following (improvements) are recommended: …

The best ideas/solutions seem to be …

It would be (highly) advisable to …

If it is decided to follow my recommendations, …

Based on the findings of this report, I recommend/suggest + -ing

I (strongly) urge you to …

Making recommendations: 

It would been a good idea to

It might be advisable to

It would be preferable to

I suggest / propose / recommend that we (should)

Check out the YouTube clip at home for tips on how to make your language more formal. 

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