Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Writing

Fare il FCE per ora è solo un'idea, ma mi sto comunque cimentando con
qualche sample trovato sul sito Cambridge, come queste due prove di
writing:
Question1
 (per la traccia andate qui:
http://www.cambridgeesol.org/support/dloads/fce/fce_hb_samp_p2.pdf
 
pag 5 del pdf)
Hi Jan, last year I worked in an international camp for children of about
8-12 years old next to a beautiful little town.
I am going to do the same this year too: why don't you join me? 
I had a lot of fun, the town is really cute, a quaint little village next to
a river with one of the best discos I have ever been in, and the girls in
there are gorgeous! 
Well, the food is not what you would eat in a luxury hotel, but I
think it is acceptable and it is free, so why worrying about it?
Accommodation is free too, but it is not a hotel at all. Actually it is
formed by only a few tents.
On the other hand we will have a lot of free time because we will work only
five hours a day, so we can loiter in the town as much as we like!
Bye, Max.
Con questo  mi sarebbero assegnati i 5 "points"?
Traccia: 
The school where you learn English has decided to buy some videos in
English. You have been
asked to write a report for the Principal, suggesting what kinds of videos
the school should buy. In
your report, you should also explain why students at the school will enjoy
these videos.
Write your report.
Dear principal, I have been asked to give you some suggestions on the recent
decision of the school to buy some videos.
I have talked to all the students of my class and we unanimously think that
the best videos to buy for us would be the ones which will be interesting
for the most of the students, and also not too much difficult to understand
at our listening level.
So we suggest you to buy some documentaries on vary subjects as: animals,
science and English countries culture. 
They all will be fun and educational at the same time, and are also not too
fast and complex for our level, so we think this is the best choice to make.
Yours sincerely. 
Sono accettabili per passare il FCE?
In cosa mi consigliereste di migliorare?

 fast and complex for our level,
togli "are"
Tschüss,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
--
"I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality 
was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole 
nature, my whole soul, my very art itself." 

 Fare il FCE per ora è solo un'idea, 
Consiglio spicciolo: studiati bene diversi modi per dare/chiedere 
suggerimenti e informazioni, perchè frasi come "please let me 
know"..."I'd like to know"..."I wonder if..." "I'd suggest..." ecc.
ti vengano spontanee senza doverci pensare su, bisogna sapersi 
destreggiare tra modi di dire diversificati, per evitare ripetizioni.
Tabhall

 the school's recent decision
Quando il rapporto di possesso è tra cose non si dovrebbe usare
preferibilmente "of"?
Lo dicono Thomson e Martinet non io:
"When the possesser is a thing, OF is normaly used ...<cut>"
Per il resto grazie, anche se non ti sei preso la responsabilità di
giudicarmi...
Al FCE una prova del genere si sarebbe meritata almeno una C?(cosi per avere
un metro di giudizio).
Magari potrebbe rispondere qualcun'altro che ha esperienze con questo
esame(non ho idea di quanto siano esigenti gli esaminatori a
questo livello).
 

 questo livello).
Ricordo che nel libro di past paper più recenti del CAE c'erano anche esempi 
di scritti che avevano ottenuto differenti valutazioni. Per il FCE, che è 
molto ma molto più gettonato del CAE, magari è la stessa cosa.
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