This presentation shares the guidelines for Writing paper of GCE o levels (1123). Both CREATIVE and DIRECTED writing parts are emphasized.

1. PAPER 1
WRITING
GCE’ O Level
1123 ENGLISH LANGUAGE
By Saima Abedi

2. WRITING (PAPER 1)
 Section
1
Directed Writing
 Section
2
Creative writing

3. SECTION 1
DIRECTED WRITING

4. DIRECTED WRITING

Marks: 30
 Word
Limit: 200- 300 words
 Time:
30- 45 min

5. DIRECTED WRITING
Types of function/ Situational writing:
Letters (formal & informal)
 Reports (informative, investigative)
 Accounts
 News report
 Magazine Articles
 Speeches (Persuasive & Informative)
 Leaflets


6. DIRECTED WRITING
 Only
one situation is set.
 Read the
 Do
question carefully.
not ignore any details and do not
change important facts in the situation.
 Elaborate
all the content points provided
as each point is of 5 marks.

7. DIRECTED WRITING

8. DIRECTED WRITING
Consider the following questions:

Audience (Who am I writing for?)
public, principal, teacher, friend, company manager, town
council, police etc

Purpose (Why am I writing this?)
to explain, inform. instruct, convince and persuade, sell,
give an account of something I witnessed, to complain
about something, etc

Format (How is this piece to be written?)
report, letter, account, article. statement, review. speech
etc

Language (What is the tone I should use?)
formal, informal, persuasive, suggestive, informative,
argumentative etc

9. DIRECTED WRITING

Five paragraphs should be formed.

Introduction (reiterate the situation)

Body (elaborate the three content points in
separate paragraphs)

Conclusion

Leave a line after each paragraph.

Paragraphs should all start from the left.

10. DIRECTED WRITING
 Students
should collect and read the samples
of each type of function writing.
 Gather
helpful phrases (opening and closing
phrases; starting of new paragraphs etc.).
 Practise
 Create
such type of writing.
their own situational writing
questions.

11. FORMAL LETTER
HELPFUL PHRASES
Type of Letters
Complaint
Opening
I am a resident of the
Gulshan-e- Iqbal and
I am writing in to
complain about...
Closing
I seriously hope that
you would look into
the complaints that I
have raised and
remedy the situation
as soon as possible.
Thank you.
Invitation
On behalf of the
school, we would like
to invite you to our
Annual Speech and
Prize Giving Day to
be held on March 15th
in the school hall.
We sincerely hope
that you will accept
our invitation and we
look forward to your
presence on that day.
Thank you.

12. MARKING SCHEME

Marks: 30
Task Fulfillment (Use Band Descriptor):
15 marks
Language (Use Band Descriptor)
:
15 marks

Please indicate the TF mark first at the
end of the essay, then language marks
e.g. 10 + 12 = 22/ 30

Candidates who address only two points
must be in Band 3 or below for TF.

15. LANGUAGE

Variety of Sentence Structures

Appropriate Tenses

Wide Vocabulary

Accurate Punctuation

Correct Spellings

Linked Paragraphs

16. TASK FULFILLMENT

Inclusion and elaboration of three content points

Appropriate format

Suitable tone and register

Apt beginning and ending

Given information used to justify personal opinion

A clear understanding of the task and content

17. SECTION 2
CREATIVE WRITING

18. CREATIVE WRITING

Marks: 30
 Word
Limit: 350- 500words
 Time:
45min – 1 hour

19. CREATIVE WRITING

Types of Essay

Descriptive

Narrative

Argumentative

Discursive

Abstract / one word / themeless

Personal Opinion

20. CREATIVE WRITING

Five topics are set.

Candidates will choose any one of the five topics.

They should read the questions carefully and choose
the topic which gives them the best chance of writing
an essay of the required length.

It is advisable to make a plan.

Planning or any rough work should be crossed out
with a pencil.

21. CREATIVE WRITING

Minimum 6 and maximum 10 paragraphs should be
formed.

Introduction: The essay must have a good beginning
to capture the attention of the reader.

Body: The middle section of the essay should convey
the main steps in the story or the details of the
description or the main points of the argument.

22. CREATIVE WRITING

Conclusion: Finally, the essay should have a
strong ending. It may provide the conclusion to
an argument, or it may move to the general view
after some precise description of details, or it
may provide the climax or round off a story.

Use transitions to connect the points and
paragraphs.

23. MARKING SCHEME

The 'best fit' principle is applied, as in the
following table.

Emphasis is on quality of Language; comments
on Content used to adjust mark within 8 Bands.

24. CREATIVE WRITING

25. LANGUAGE

Variety of Sentence Structures

Appropriate Tenses

Wide Vocabulary

Accurate Punctuation

Correct Spellings

Linked Paragraphs

26. CONTENT
 Compositions
should be interesting and
consistently relevant to the theme.
 Discursive
and argumentative essays are well
developed, logical, based on facts and figures.
 Descriptive
essays have well-developed imagery
(mental picture).
 Narratives
are complex, sophisticated and may
contain devices such as flashbacks.

27. Reference:
www.cie.org.uk