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Curriculum Extra Unit 2: Focus On Literature: Types of Writing
Curriculum Extra Unit 2: Focus On Literature: Types of Writing
2 Read the writing tasks below. Which task matches the writing plan in exercise 1?
1 You want to tell a friend that has moved to another country about what you and your friends have done recently.
You also want to know about your friend’s new life.
2 You have agreed to write about your local town. You will write about a few famous places to visit and suggest
good places to eat at in the centre of town.
3 The local newspaper published an article about a concert at your school. It said that the musicians played badly
and that there weren’t many people there. This is not true and you want the newspaper to change their report.
4 You want people to use bicycles more to get to school and move around your town. Write about the advantages
and disadvantages of cycling and say why you think cycling is a good idea.
5 You and your family had a hilarious experience while you were on holiday last summer. You want to tell your
class about what happened.
3 Work with a partner and write plans for the other four writing tasks.
Task ___ Task ___ Task ___ Task ___
Audience
Type of writing
Fiction / non-fiction
Style
Purpose
C
The day we got on the plane at
Heathrow airport that was taking us to
Helsinki in Finland, we were all E
incredibly happy. When we arrived, … If you’ve only got 48
hours to spend in my
hometown, you can’t go
D without seeing the
Dear Sir, following five attractions.
I am writing in response to your Any visit should begin …
newspaper’s report last Tuesday about
out school concert.