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Students build travel vocabulary and use narrative tenses, including the past perfect, through B2 First open cloze, transformation, reading and article tasks.

Students rebuild ten fixed phrases for opening, requesting, chasing, replying and closing in professional emails in a memory card game, then say where in an email each one goes.

Students organise a report with a title and headings, present survey findings with evidence and make clear recommendations in a B2 First Part 2 report.

Students analyse a model review, practise evaluating and recommending with stronger and softer language and write a B2 First Part 2 review that tells readers who it suits.

Students analyse a model article, practise ways to hook and talk to the reader and write a B2 First Part 2 article that answers every question in the task.

Students analyse an opinion article, practise lively ways to make, support and balance a point, and write a B2 First Part 2 article that gives a clear opinion and answers every question in the task.

Students choose the right style for the reader, answer every point in the task and write a B2 First Part 2 email with a matching opening and ending.

Students write a polite but friendly reply to someone they know, answer every point in the email, ask indirect questions and write a B2 First Part 2 email.

Students analyse a model essay, practise the linking words that organise an argument and write a B2 First Part 1 essay with a clear opinion.

Students support each point with a reason and an example, add their own idea, treat the other side fairly and write a B2 First Part 1 essay.

Students find out what the B2 First Writing paper asks for, compare the five kinds of writing, practise the language and plans that suit each one, and write a review.

Students edit wordy sentences down to their essentials, removing redundancy and tautology, and compare their versions with a partner.

Students learn to edit for concision by cutting redundancy and wordiness from a council report, then rewrite a sentence and argue a case succinctly.