4V T2a Essay Plan B1
The Story Behind This Task
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This task consists out of three parts: T2a, T2b and T2c. It ends with an essay you will write during your test week. For this essay, you can get a maximum of 800 XP, depending on how well you do. T2a focuses on creating the plan for an essay, T2b focuses on writing an essay, and T2c focuses on preparing for the essay in the test week. It’s important to keep up to speed, so you can hand everything in on time.
You are…
A researcher who is going to publish an argumentative essay.
You will get a number of statements and will do research on one of the chosen statements. You will give arguments for and against, and with this, will prove that the statement is true or false.
It is important to use facts to support your arguments and to make sure that the information you’ve found comes from credible sources.
In this task, you will focus on how to create an essay plan for the argumentative essay you’re going to write.
Duration
You have two lessons a week to work on the task. The other lesson we will do other activities.
You have 2 weeks for this task.
- Explore Phase: 1 lesson
- Produce Phase I: 2 lessons
- Feedback Phase: 0.5 lesson
- Grow Phase I: 0.5 lesson
Rewards
You can earn 400XP with this task.
You can earn 20 extra GEMS in total for this task. These are based on:
– using advanced vocabulary and grammar
– having great arguments for your essay
You can only get these points if you did extra well. SO better than you should.
Vocab
related to:
– essay
– research
– formal language
Grammar
related to:
- Formal writing
- Concise writing
- Passive voice / active voice
- Past simple
- Present perfect
Year and level
Year 2
B2 Writing
B1 and B2 Reading
Learning Goals
B1
Lezen
Schrijven
B2
Lezen
Link naar volledige leerdoelen kaart
De bovenstaande leerdoelen voor schrijven zijn terug te vinden op de leerdoelkaart B1 en B2 voor moderne vreemde talen (MVT). Zie deze link voor het volledige overzicht van de B1 MVT leerdoelen. Zie deze link voor het volledige overzicht van de B2 MVT leerdoelen.
Mining Expeditions
Essay Plan Mining Expedition
For this task (T1a, T1b, T1c), you can do a mining expedition in which you write another 200-word essay in which you use proper essay structure to argue for or against a topic of your choice.