Theme 1 – Identity and culture Q1 - Model Answer

Vous écrivez un article sur votre vie au collège pour un site web.
Décrivez :
• votre routine au collège
• votre opinion de l’uniforme
• la pause-déjeuner hier
• un voyage scolaire à l’avenir

Mon collège commence à 9h30. Il y a huit cours de 40 minutes avec une pause de 30 minutes. La pause-déjeuner commence à 1h25. Le collège finit à 3h30.

J'aime bien mon uniforme scolaire. Je trouve que c'est pratique et c'est facile le matin car on ne doit pas choisir des vêtements différents tous les jours.

Hier pendant la pause-déjeuner je suis allé à la cantine avec mes amis. J'ai mangé un plat chaud avec des légumes et un dessert. C'était délicieux. Après nous sommes allés au terrain de sport pour jouer au football.

L'année prochaine nous allons passer cinq jours à Paris. Nous voyagerons en car et en bateau et nous resterons dans une auberge de jeunesse. Nous visiterons des monuments et nous allons monter la Tour Eiffel.

The layout of the answer is clear and easy for the examiner to follow.
1. True
2. False
I lose the will to live when I look at this answer as it is such a mess.
1. True
2. False
I can clearly see that there are 4 distinct sections for this Question 1 task. The first section addresses the first bullet point, the second section addresses the second bullet point and so on.
1. True
2. False
Each bullet point is fully addressed.
1. True
2. False
The tasks requires three time frames (past, present and future) and all three are used in the answer.
1. True
2. False
The variety of language and range of expression is very basic, repetitive and uninteresting.
1. True
2. False
It is not difficult to write a Question 1 answer like this - I just need to remember to plan my answer first, organise my ideas and lay out my work properly making use of mini-paragraphs, just like in this example.
1. True
2. False
I understand that it is always in my best interest to lay my answer out clearly and neatly to make the examiner's role as easy as possible.
1. True
2. False
If I deliver a completely shambolic mess, the examiner will feel sorry for me and will want to spend more time trying to work out whether I have answered a bullet point or not, even though they will not get paid any more for having to work so much harder. This makes complete sense to me - what reason could they possibly have for not spending more time on my submission - they have probably only got another 240 to mark after mine anyway?
1. True
2. False

Theme 1 – Identity and culture Q1 - Model Answer - Analysis of a model answer

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