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Content: Make sure to answer all the
Learn useful phrases. Each part has a prompts and questions in the task. Cambridge PET

5 points
set of different phrases that are
commonly used. Learn phrases for
Imagine that the examiner is your pen
pal or teacher receiving the email and
writing
making and responding to suggestions, you want them to be fully informed.
expressing opinions, agreeing and
Communicative achievement: Use
disagreeing, etc.
appropriate register (formal/informal)

5 points
Familiarize yourself with the and clearly communicate your ideas.
structures of each writing. You need You want to make sure that the reader
to remember how to organise a letter, is interested in your writing and has no
an article and a story. difficulties understanding you.
Write as much as you can. Whenever Organisation: Use a variety of linking
5 points
you find some free time, write a short words and clear paragraphs to make
letter, an article or a story. The more
your writing easy to read.
you write, the more you realize how
similar all tasks are. Language: Use a wide range of
5 points

appropriate vocabulary and WHAT IS PET WRITING?

Pay attention to your errors. All of us
grammatical forms. Small errors will
have a set of errors that we like to Cambridge PET writing is made of two
not affect your score. parts that test your ability to use
repeat. Once you know yours, you will
TOTAL: 2 x 20 appropriate vocabulary, spelling and
be able to spot and correct them
Minimum score to pass: 24 points
immediately. grammatical structures by writing an
email and an article or a story.
Exchange your writings with a Resources
friend. If you have a friend who is also HOW LONG IS THE EXAM?
preparing for the exam, you can read
www.cambridgeenglish.org It is 45 minutes long, giving you about
each other's writings and give feedback.
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Writing Part 1
WRITE AN EMAIL
This part tests your ability to write a relevant and
organised short text that keeps the reader informed
about the context and uses an appropriate range of
vocabulary and grammar.
A compulsory question that must be
answered using about 100 words. You
must respond to an email by answering a
set of four prompts presented as notes.
HOW TO ANSWER THIS TASK?
Spend 5 minutes to read the task and
plan your answer, making sure that you
include the four prompts. Remember that
you will get points for the organisation.
Identify the person you are writing to as
your register will change depending if it is
your friend (informal) or your teacher
(formal).
After you finish writing your answer,
spend about 5 minutes to read it again
and check if it still makes sense, if there
are no mistakes and if all the prompts are
answered.
Don't prepare and memorise a standard
answer before the exam. However, it is
useful to learn a set of language phrases
commonly used in emails.
Writing Part 2
WRITE AN ARTICLE (OPTIONAL)
This part tests your ability to write a relevant and
organised short text using an appropriate register
that keeps the reader informed about the topic of
an article.
An optional question that must be
answered using about 100 words. You
need to write an article to either a
magazine or a website while responding
to questions presented in the task.
HOW TO ANSWER THIS TASK?
Spend 5 minutes to read the task and
plan your answer, making sure that you
included the answers to the questions
posed in the task.
Identify the register of the article. If it is for
a magazine you should keep it more
formal and if it is for a school website you
can make it more informal.
After you finish writing your answer,
spend about 5 minutes to read it again to
check if it still makes sense, if there aren't
any obvious mistakes and if you answered
all the questions from the task.
If you feel like you aren't that good at
writing articles, you can skip this task and
write a story instead!
Writing Part 3
WRITE A STORY (OPTIONAL)
This part tests your ability to write a relevant and
organised short text using an appropriate range of
vocabulary and grammar that keeps the reader
interested in the content of the story.
An optional question that must be
answered using about 100 words. You
need to write a story using the first
sentence as the opening.
HOW TO ANSWER THIS TASK?
Spend 5 minutes to read the task and
plan your answer, making sure that it
follows a correct order (introduction, main
body, conclusion).
Read the first sentence carefully and
identify the correct person (I - first person,
he/she - third person), as well as the
correct tense (past, present, future).
After you finish writing your answer,
spend about 5 minutes to read it again to
check if it still makes sense, if there aren't
any obvious mistakes.
Make sure that your story is original and
interesting for the reader. You want to
keep the examiner excited about your
story.