4V T2b Essay Writing 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…
Still the same researcher who is going to publish an argumentative essay.
You’ve done your research and have planned out your essay structure, so now it is time to start writing!
In this task, you will continue your work from T1a Essay Plan B1 and turn your essay plan into an argumentative essay.
You will learn about formal writing, concise writing, and how to write a convincing argumentative essay.
Make sure to ask your teacher any questions you have regarding the task.
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.
- Produce Phase II: 2 lessons
- Feedback Phase II: 1 lesson
- Grow Phase II: 1 lesson
- Reflect Phase: 0.5 lessons
- Show Phase: 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 great concise language
– using great formal language
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
B2
Schrijven
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
Difficult essay
For this task, you can write an additional difficult essay. You can find the assignment here.