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Pre-intermediate 2: Writing Assignments

Welcome to your myEnglish course.

During the course you can share two assignments with your teacher in order to get feedback
on your writing skills. The writing tasks relate to topics studied on the course.

These writing tasks are optional – they do not affect your final course grade.

Please note: Make sure these writing tasks are your own work – if you want feedback on
your skills and advice for improvement there is no point sending someone else’s work!

Deadlines for submission:

Writing Assignment 1: End of Week 2 of your course.

Writing Assignment 2: End of Week 5 of your course.

Please email the completed writing task to your teacher. Your teacher will share feedback
on your writing within seven days post-deadline.

Please note: In order to give you timely and constructive feedback, deadlines are fixed and
cannot be extended for any reason.

Feedback

Your teacher will give you feedback on the following areas:

Area Description Marks

Completes all areas of the task. Demonstrates

Task Achievement,
understanding of audience and purpose of
Coherence & /10
communication. Organises ideas well using
Cohesion
paragraphs and discourse markers.

Grammatical Range & Uses a range of grammar and punctuation for this
/10
Accuracy level. Accuracy and suitability of structures used.

Uses a range of vocabulary for this level, appropriate

Lexical Range &
to purpose and audience. Accuracy in spelling, form /10
Accuracy
and usage.

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Task 1

Deadline: End of Week 2 of your course

Task:

Write a blog post titled ‘Last Weekend’:

Talk about what you did last weekend. Use these questions to help you:

 What did you want to do?

 What did you have to do?
 What did you actually do?
 Was it a typical weekend, or did you do something special?
 Did you enjoy it?

Points to note:

Try to use the following:

 past simple
 past continuous
 time expressions
Task 2

Deadline: End of Week 5 of your course

Task:

You are the manager of an international company, and you are going on a
business trip next week. Write an email to your personal assistant. Say what
preparations you have already made and what you have not done yet.

 transport
 hotel booking
 documents you need (passports, visas, company reports etc.)
 meetings to arrange

Points to note:

Try to use the following:

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 present perfect, with yet and already

 past simple
 travel vocabulary

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© The British Council

The United Kingdom’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733
(Scotland).