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B2/C1 Articles

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Lots of excellent advice on articles is to be found here . Tweet Follow @bclasrozas

Test Yourself - Articles

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On an  article Tweet Follow @bclasrozas

Proficiency Samples

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Two articles One on a travel topic. One on Globalisation Pay close attention to the writers attempts to incorporate suitable vocabulary for the topics. Tweet Follow @bclasrozas

First, Advanced, CPE. How to...

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to write an article . Tweet Follow @bclasrozas

Advanced - Article Writing Exercises

From One Stop English , here's lots of excellent practice material on article writing.

Writing articles

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Some detailed information here - also of interest to anyone with journalistic ambitions. Tweet Follow @bclasrozas

First Student's Work

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An FCE Article Follow us on

Advanced Student's Work

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A CAE level article. Follow us on

Essays and Articles

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An excellent slideshow with language for essays and articles. Tweet Follow @bclasrozas

First: Articles

Visit this page for some great examples of students' writing work. Tweet Follow @bclasrozas

Article Shopping List

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Things to Include in your Article vocabulary connected to the topic grammar to do the action in the question ("give advice" >>> should, if I were you, etc.) stay within 10% of the word limit write sufficient clear paragrpahs connect your sentences try to be interesting show some personality don't forget a title Follow us on

First: Assess an article

If you are interested in writing articles, think about this one: Today's television "A load of old rubbish" or "More choice than ever before"? Is today's television still good value for money? How would you answer this question? Pay a visit to the flo-joe website to take a look at one student's attempt.

Advanced Sample - Article on the past

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Article The Times newspaper has asked the public to contribute articles for a series in their Sunday magazine supplement. If we make a concerted effort to conserve energy, could we live without electricity? They wish to receive your views and opinions on this subject. What do YOU think life would be like with no electricity? Send your articles to us at the address below or use the e-mail number. Write your article . Back to the past Can you conceive your life without electricity? Imagine a complete power cut ü . Imagine   [m1] your house or your job without any artificial light. Imagine hospitals, commercial centres, even the street`s lights, all gone. And now try to assume that this is the new way of living. It sounds like a terrible nightmare, doesn`t it? ü ü If this had happen , it would be necessary a complete change  [m2]   in our world. First of all, if there was no artificial light, we would need to adapt our timetables to the sun hou...

Link: British Council Article Archive

Still in need of inspiration? Go here for more articles than you will ever need - in alphabetical order. Use them for ideas, but make sure the constructions and grammar are always yours.

Advanced Sample: Article

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BACK TO THE CAVES ü Over the last century people’s lifes have completely changed <!--[if !supportAnnotations]--> [m1] <!--[endif]--> upside down. This is due to, above all, [the existence of] electricity. Nowadays, it has become crucial ü for every single activity we do, since <!--[if !supportAnnotations]--> [m2] <!--[endif]--> doing the shopping, or taking ü a warm bath; even when we are sleeping we relay on the alarm clock to go off ü and make us start a new day on time. If electricity didn’t exist, life would be totally ü different. First of all, we would have to adapt our lives to sunlight, reducing working time from eight to five hours in winter. And, as ü we wouldn’t have anything to do from sunset to dawn, we could sleep at least 9 hours every day!! When it comes to ü leisure time, we could only do outdoor activities, such as running, strolling ü , or going out with our friends. We had to learn how to survive <!--[if !suppo...