Final Writing Task: A Balanced Opinion Essay

Your final writing task for the B2 course.

Notice

  • Choose one topic: Should schools require students to wear uniforms? Is social media doing more harm than good? Should remote work become the norm?
  • Write a balanced essay of 150-200 words using the structures from this course.

Rule

Your task: Write a balanced opinion essay (150–200 words) with a clear introduction, an advantages paragraph, a disadvantages paragraph, and a conclusion with your own reasoned opinion. Use at least five different structures from across this course: for example a passive form, a reporting verb, a discourse marker, a cleft sentence, and a hedging expression.

Practice

  1. Planning line: which topic will you choose?
    Answer: Personal answer.
  2. List the five B2 structures you plan to include.
    Answer: Personal answer — e.g. passive, reporting verb, discourse marker, cleft sentence, hedging expression.

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CEFR: Writing — write clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects related to my interests, weighing up different points of view.

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