Summary of this lesson
In this lesson, you should have learned…
- that you should spend about 40 minutes on Task 2
- that Task 2 is worth more to your final result than Task 1
- that you need to give reasons for your answer and include relevant examples
- that you should write at least 250 words
- that you will be marked on 4 criteria (Task Response, Cohesion and coherence, Lexical resource, Grammatical range and accuracy)
- that there are 4 types of Task 2 essay (Give an opinion / challenge a point of view, Compare points of view, Give solutions to a problem, Discuss a given situation)
More information on the 4 types of Task 2 essays is in the ‘Getting ideas and planning’ lesson