The following task is taken from a real English test. Follow the instructions and write around 150-200 words.


You want to go to Notting Hill Festival this year. It's a big music festival which is held every year in the west part of London, in Notting Hill. Write a letter to the TIC of Notting Hill and ask for the following information.

 suitable beginning
 festival programme
 accommodation
 ticket prices
 how to get there from the Heathrow Airport
 suitable ending

1) Find a picture showing at least 3 different people.

2) Write a detailed description of each person. (approximately 100 words per person)

3) ???

4) PROFIT!!!

(steps 3 and 4 are not to be taken seriously)

Sorry for being two days late, guys and gals. The fact that I'm uploading your task for this week today means of course that you will have time until next THURSDAY and not Tuesday.

For this week's assignment I want you to do a little interpretation.

Read the following poem carefully and write what it is about in your opinion. (Oh and don't cheat by looking up an interpretation on the Internet because I am a teacher therefore omniscient. Muahahahaha!) Since this task is more difficult than the other ones you will only have to write between 150 and 200 words.

Little girls, this seems to say:
Never stop upon your way;
Never trust a stranger friend
No one knows how it will end.
As you’re pretty, so be wise
Wolves may lurk in every guise
Now, as then, ’tis simple truth:
Sweetest tongue hides sharpest tooth.

The NASA is looking for young students between the ages of 14-17 to take part in the first manned Mars expedition.

Write a letter of application to the people responsible for the mission and convince them to take you along. (You don't have to be 100% honest about yourself.)

(about 250 words)

You wake up in a backyard. You have no idea. What time it is and where you are. Searching through your pockets you find:

- a pocket knife

- four batteries (AAA)

- a pack of chewing gum

- a little pocket mirror

Not far away you can hear two people talking in some Asian language which you don't understand.
Your objective is to get back to Germany. Write how you would do it. (about 350 words)

You will get bonus points if you use all the items you found in your pockets.

Write a summary of your favourite film/book or video game.

The summary should be around 400 words.