By Yassine ait hammou – Abi Bakr Essedik High School, Ouarzazate.molly benton schneider – Peace corps, ouarzazate. : By Yassine ait hammou – Abi Bakr Essedik High School, Ouarzazate.molly benton schneider – Peace corps, ouarzazate. From Writing a Paragraph
to Writing an Essay
Baccalaureate Essay Questions : Baccalaureate Essay Questions The last part of the English exam is the writing portion, where you will be asked to answer a question by writing an essay.
There are five main types of essay questions that could be on the test:
Descriptive
Narrative
Opinion: Advantages and Disadvantages
Cause and Effect
Letter/Email Writing.
1. Types of Essays: : 1. Types of Essays: 1. Descriptive / Expository / Informative Essay
2. Narrative Essay
3. Argumentative Essay
4. Comparative Essay
5. Opinion Essay ( Advantages & Disadvantages)
6. Cause and Effect Essay
7. Letter /E-mail Writing (Formal and Informal)
8. Report
9.Article
10.Film Review
11. Book Review
What type of essay each of these topics require? : What type of essay each of these topics require? Read the topic and identify the type of essay required.
Descriptive : Descriptive Students often take part in some voluntary work as an act of citizenship.
Write a report about an activity you participated in or heard about to your school, neighborhood or city.
These suggestions may help you:
-The kind of activity (planting trees, helping old people, campaigns about smoking, road accidents)
-People involved (students, teachers, administrators, experts…)
-The benefits of the activity- your feelings/attitude –voluntary work as an aspect of good citizenship.
Narrative : Narrative One of your relatives or neighbors was illiterate, but he/she benefited a lot from literacy classes organized by a local NGO. Tell the story of that person describing his/her feelings and what he/she gained as a person and as a member of the community
These suggestions might help you:
-Who the person is (name, age, etc)
-What the NGO has contributed to success of these classes.
-How has he/she known about and joined the literacy classes
-Where and where these classes were given
-Why were these classes important to him/her
-What he/she gained from these classes (socially, financially and personally)
-Your personal View about how to encourage literacy classes.
Opinion: Advantages and Disadvantages : Opinion: Advantages and Disadvantages Mobile phones are now used by millions of people.
Write an article for your school magazine to state the advantages and the disadvantages of mobile phones.
These cues may help you:
-Advantages: (communicate freely, texting, taking pictures, sending messages,…etc)
-Disadvantages: (dangerous when driving, no face-to-face communication,.. etc)
-Your opinion.
Cause and Effect : Cause and Effect Environmentalists warn that water pollution is a real danger to humanity and nature. Write an article for your school magazine describing the causes of this phenomenon and suggesting some practical solutions.
Letter Writing/Email : Letter Writing/Email Write an email to your friend describing the best place you have ever visited.
Here are some cues to help you:
-Name of the place (city, village, countryside, forest, beach…)
-Time of the visit (weekend, Sunday, holiday, summer)
-Characteristics (attractive, nice, interesting, modern, traditional...)
-Your feelings (happy, satisfied, unforgettable, memorable)
2. Writing a paragrpah : 2. Writing a paragrpah The components of a paragraph:
1. Topic Sentence.
2. Supporting Sentences.
3. Closing Sentence
3. Writing an Essay : 3. Writing an Essay The components of essay:
1. Introduction
2. Body
3. Conclusion
4. Steps to writing essay : 4. Steps to writing essay 1. Brainstorming (Pre-writing stage)
2.Outline (Pre-writing stage)
3. Drafting (While-writing stage)
4. Editing / Final Draft (Post-writing stage)
5. Remember when you write! : 5. Remember when you write! 1. Punctuation
2. Capitalization (I,Names,Places,Things,Books,Films,Countries,Languages….)
3. Grammatical tenses
4. Make sure you write short sentences
5. Make sure you use enough and appropriate linking words / conncetors.
6. Make sure you provide enough examples and facts.
6. Samples to study : 6. Samples to study 1. Paragraphs
2. Essay
7. A paragraph & a McDonalds Meal : 7. A paragraph & a McDonalds Meal
Let’s call it a day ! : Let’s call it a day ! Thank you so much and see you tomorrow InshAllah