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ENGLISH WRITING – APP AF1 LEVEL 2
So now we look at what we need to get a level 2 in our writing. So we’re still focusing
on AF1 which is to write imaginative, interesting and thoughtful texts. Now that in itself is
an aim, so what we’re doing here is basically looking at the basic ingredients of that.
We’ll probably have got to this by level 5/6, it will be genuinely imaginative and
interesting but all we need to progress and combine all of the previously levels, we won’t
be doing level 5 or level 6 if we’re not doing level 1 or 2, so let’s just go over
the basics and make sure we have them.
In some of our writing we will offer brief comments, questions about events or actions,
suggesting a viewpoint perhaps, so an example of this might be if I was writing about life
I might be mentioning what my favourite sport is. That would come under a brief comment.
If I was writing a story, a brief question or something simple, one of my characters
might say “can I play?” so it’s important to know that your writing will suggest different
viewpoints and they might come in the form of questions.
Another viewpoint or comment being offered if I were writing a review would be “I liked
it” so that could be maybe summing up someone’s acting or someone’s costume and I’d just
offer the viewpoint that I liked it, or the comment that I liked it.
In 2.2, the focus is using apt word choices to create interest, so with some of our descriptions
then we’re just going to start adding some, so the apt word choice I might say that “the
man was tall” and why that makes that more interesting is it’s more descriptive, it
gives me an idea in my head. But then someone looking at developing that further might say
“the tall man was thus imposing” for example, so that’s like the basic elements of putting
in some interest or creating interest there. And here using a word like ‘really’ if
you’re writing a review, actually creates some interest because you’re inviting the
reader to focus on what you like and then highlighting something within what you like
and thus you’re saying “you really like something”, your heavily putting a focus
on it.
And then 2.3, mostly relevant ideas in content, sometimes repetitive or sparse. So what you’re
doing there is in your writing, everything generally is useful, although sometimes you
can’t get away from something that’s holding you back by being repetitive, so you’ve
got one idea and you keep re-visiting that idea, or it might be quite sparse so you don’t
really develop it and we’ve seen an example here from writing a review say of a party
or somewhere I went at the weekend. I might say “I didn’t like the food”, “I didn’t
like the drinks”, “I didn’t like the durr”, “I didn’t like the durr” and
that would actually keep us looped in there. But you see, it is progressing – “I don’t
like the food”, “I don’t like the drinks” – it is progressing from earlier on where
we’re just mentioning some of the words, so now we’re actually putting more of an
opinion in and developing it that way. 1