T1 CA FLE MS Directed Writing 202223
T1 CA FLE MS Directed Writing 202223
PUBLISHED 2019
You are Willie, the trainee Inuit guide. After the Arctic cruise is over, you
write a letter to your girlfriend, Eska.
Base your letter on what you have read in Passage A, but be careful to
use your own words.
Begin your letter: ‘Dear Eska, We have just come back from another
tourist cruise around the Arctic «’
1 Use the Marking Criteria for Question 1 (Table A, Reading and Table B 20
Writing).
Notes on task
Candidates should select ideas from the passage (see below) and develop
them relevantly, supporting what they write with details from the passage
and judging the appropriate register for the genre which is a letter. Look for a
clear and balanced response which covers the three areas of the question, is
well sequenced, and is in the candidate’s own words.
Annotate A1 for references to where the tourists were taken and what
activities were organised.
Annotate A2 for references to what the tourists expected and how far they
were satisfied.
A1: Where you took the tourists and what activities were organised for
them
A2: What you think the tourists expected and how far they were
satisfied
• relaxing holiday (det. not exotic cruise ship) [dev. not what they had
expected when they booked]
• wanted to see polar bears (det. thrilled when large male joined them)
[dev. tourists fascinated by them; romanticised view]
• traditional sleds/husky drawn sleds (det. not motorised vehicles) [dev.
stereotypical expectations; wanted ’authentic’ experience; had to get
used to walking a long way]
• educational experience/learn something (det. asked questions) [dev.
not visited there before]
• excited (or worried) by adventure (det. ice floes, icebergs) [dev.
deliberately hit iceberg to spook tourists]
Band 3 4–6 • There is some evidence of general understanding of the main ideas,
although the response may be thin or in places lack focus on the passage
or the question.
• Some brief, straightforward reference to the passage is made.
• There may be some reliance on lifting from the text.
• One of the bullets may not be addressed.
• The voice might be inappropriate.
Band 2 1–3 • The response is either very general, with little reference to the passage, or
a reproduction of sections of the original.
• Content is either insubstantial or unselective.
• There is little realisation of the need to modify material from the passage.
Band 4 3 • Language is clear but comparatively plain and/or factual, expressing little
opinion.
• Ideas are rarely extended, but explanations are adequate.
• Some sections are quite well sequenced but there may be flaws in
structure.