Today I had the pleasure of taking parting in the IH Bydgoszcz Cambridge methodology day. I presented a range of activities to help teachers prepare students for the Cambridge First and Cambridge Advanced writing exams.
The slides from the presentation and all of the resources can be found below. You can download everything from slideshare, for which you will need to create a free account. The links in the presentation are clickable. You’ll find full details of all of the activities in the notes which accompany each slide, which you’ll be able to see when you download the presentation.
Potato talks was taken from Thinking in the EFL Class
FCE essay to put in order (via Pavla Milerski):
For more on linking words of contrast, please see my Contrast Linkers post.
Telescopic Text is a way to get your students to play with language and experiment with writing longer stretches of text. Here’s the example I shared.
The other links I shared were my Useful FCE websites page, flo-joe, Cambridge Write and Improve and my student’s guide to Quizlet, including the link to my B2/FCE Quizlet group. While the last link may not seem so connected to writing, a) it’s amazing, and b) it’s great for practising spelling as well as expanding the range of vocabulary students know.
I’d like to thank David Petrie and Pavla Milerski for activities which they allowed me to incorporate into the presentation, and Anna Ermolenko and Tim Julian for other ideas which didn’t make it in in the end. If you’d like more ideas, you can watch David’s webinar on writing skills for exam practice. Being connected to a network of such helpful teachers is so useful. Thank you!
Sandy Millin 
Sandy! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!
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nice resource…….i will look at the slideshare…………….i also look forward to other posts in Infinite ELT ideas……oh, and hope it goes well on the romantic front
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