Introductory Certificate in General English

Out-of-class Writing Assignment 1

Writing Task

The writing assignment is to describe a memorable event in your life. It could be one of the following sorts of things:

�	a holiday that you either really enjoyed or really disliked.
�	an occasion when you met someone special.
�	a day that changed your life.
�	an accident that you witnessed or were involved in.

These are only suggestions. You have total freedom to choose anything else.

Note

Your course book has lots of useful language for talking about this assignment, especially in the grammar covered in units 3 and 4.  Use:

�	 The past simple. To talk about things that happened at a particular time in the past: It all started one evening after a typical day.

�	The present perfect. To talk about things that happened at some unstated time 'before now': 
�	I have been abroad on holiday several times in the last few years.

�	 The past continuous. To talk about something going on at a particular time in the past: I was driving along a motorway in Spain.

�	 The past simple and the past continuous. To say what happened (past simple) when something else was happening (past continuous): I was jumping up to catch a ball when someone in the other team knocked me over and fell on my leg.

Do not write too much, as you will not get extra marks for writing pages of information.
It is fine just to write a paragraph or two, as long as you think about what you write.
If you want to get a good mark, what you must do is check your work before handing it in to get rid of any careless mistakes. The easiest way to lose marks is by making careless errors.