1. WRITING SECTION

2. PET - Writing section
Part

3. PET - Writing section Writing: THREE PARTS, including:
One task focusing on vocabulary and grammar
One communicative task of 35–45 words
One longer piece (choice between an informal letter or a story) of about 100 words

4. PART 1: Complete Sentences (Transformation)
Part 1 of PET Writing Paper contains 5 questions.
In each question you have to re-write a sentence so that both sentences have the same meaning.
Task focused on Vocabulary and Grammar.

5. Task
1-3 words

6. PART 1 – Question

7. PART 1
Answers

8. LET’S PRACTISE

13. PART 2: Short Communicative Message (email, postcard, note, etc.)
In this part you have to answer a task by writing a short message to a friend or relative.
The message must be words and has to answer a specific set of writing prompts. 

14. Task
As you can see in the task above, you are given:
A situation : Your friend, Chris, has invited you to a special party…
A task : Write an to Chris.
Prompts or subtasks : Accept the invitation, Suggest how…, Ask Chris…
Number of words : Write words…

15. Example: As you can see in the sample answer, we:
Greet our friend : Hi Chris!
Thank him : Thanks a lot for…
Suggest how to help him : Shall I give you a hand…?
Ask him for ideas : …what could I get for the teacher as a present?
Say goodbye : Write back soon,…
And all of the above is what you have to do in virtually any short message you may have to write
for Cambridge English: Preliminary (PET), except that the writing prompts will change.

16. PART 3: Choice between a Story or a Short Letter
In this part of the test, you are given some instructions to write a story in about 100 words.
These instructions may involve the title or the first or last sentence of the story.
Why do they give you this prompt? Well, if they asked you to simply “write a story”, you could memorise a story at home and simply write it out in the exam, which isn’t really fair.

17. STRUCTURE a) Greeting Task : a Letter b) Opening p. c) Main p. 1
d) Main p. 2
e) Closing p.
f) Goodbye
g) Signature

18. Example: A Letter

19. Task : A Story

20. STRUCTURE Task : A Story a) Title b) Exposition c) Action
d) Resolution

21. STRUCTURE

22. Task : A Story
In the story you can see different things:
Well-defined structure: 
3 clear paragraphs.
A variety of past tenses: 
Past simple
(was tired, didn’t want, etc.),
Past continuous
(was getting off, was sleeping, etc.)
Past perfect
(had broken, had stopped, etc.).
Time expressions: 
in the end, when, a few hours later.
Suspense elements: 
all of a sudden, without a warning.

23. Now…It’s time to Practise