The drawing above (click on the picture to make it bigger and clearer) shows how I teach CAE writing the tried and trusted traditional way of providing the students with the security of a parallel model to guide them through their own writing.
The CAE writing model above is a CAE review (compare and contrast type) of two British soap operas, 'Eastenders' and 'Coronation Street', with all the linking devices and other good functional language expressions useful for this task being highlighted in red. Thus, the students task will be to write a review about two Polish soap operas (or other Polish TV programmes)
Love creating CAE writing models spontaneously on the whiteboard in the immediacy of the classroom, as this convinces students that the writing tasks can be done easily within the time allocated. The pure spontaneity of it also seems to have a much heavier impact than just bringing in a few pre-meditated models drawn up on the computer.
Truth be known, half the time, the students don't bother doing their CAE writing assignments, but my build up of a collection of CAE writing models gives them something concrete to try and memorise during their revision for the CAE writing exam.
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