You decided to write a story for an international student magazine. The story must containthe following sentence:
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."*
You can use this sentence in any part of your story, but you cannot make any changes to the sentence itself.
Write 200–250 words.
*This “six-word novel” is often attributed to Ernest Hemingway. They say that sometime in the ‘20s Hemingway was having lunch with some other writers and made a ten-dollar bet that he could write a novel in six words. After penning the famous line on a napkin, he passed it around the table, and collected his winnings.
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You have 60 minutes to complete the task.
Write a short story based on an episode from school life.
In your story:
- Follow the rules of short story writing;
- Use direct and / or indirect speech;
- Describe feelings and emotions;
- Make an unexpected ending;
- Use the following words at least once:
- play truant
- cheat sheet
- detention
- dunce
- terrific
Write 220–250 words.
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Write a short story.
- Choose any subject but use in your story the following words at least once (underline the word from the list when using it for the first time):
- Fluffy
- Ignorant
- Board
- Cord
- Traffic
- title your story using a word from the list;
- include description of feelings and emotions;
- include direct and indirect speech;
- make an unexpected ending.
Write 220–250 words.
Time: 60 minutes
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Part 4. Writing
Time: 45 minutes (20 scores)
You are going to take part in a school competition “Golden Pen”. You have to write a
story based on the picture given and using the words:
- paw(s)
- graceful
- hesitated
Describe events in an entertaining way. Please underline the given words in the story.
Write 180–200 words.
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Write a short story.
Choose any subject, but use in your story 3 pairs of anagrammed words.
An anagram is the result of rearranging the letters of a word to produce a new word, using all the original letters exactly once. For example: "Joanna took the bottle and read: "Clean yourskin before applying make-up". Then she put it on the edge of thesink and stared in the mirror". "Skin" and "sink" are a pair of anagrammed words.Do not use this example as your own pair of anagrams in your story.
Write 150–250 words.
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Task 1
You see this announcement on an English-language travel website.
ARTICLES WANTED
A day in the city!
We are looking for articles about how a visitor could have a great time in New York in just one day.
Write us an article telling us what a visitor can do, what they can see and how they can travel around.
The best articles will be posted on our website.
Watch the video and write an article for the website (300–350 words).
In your article you may dwell on any New York sights you choose, but two of them must be from the list below:
- Empire State Building
- Times Square
- Fifth Avenue
- Broadway
- Coney Island
- Central Park
Use the following words and expressions in your article:
- Big Apple
- grid system
- Metropolitan
New York
Source of the video
Похожее по формату задание (видео + set vocabulary) встречалось на заключительном этапе Всероссийской олимпиады школьников в 2016 году.
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