Your local council is considering closing a town-centre street to vehicles for one Saturday each month so that community activities can take place there. Residents, business owners and councillors will attend a public meeting about the plan, and you have been asked to speak.
Write your speech, giving your views on the monthly closure and explaining how it could be organised to serve residents and businesses.
Your work will be assessed on communication and adaptation to audience and purpose (27 marks), and organisation and technical accuracy (18 marks).
281 exam-style questions on Edexcel A IGCSE English Language 1.3 Section B: Transactional Writing, covering 1.3.1 Focus of Section B, 1.3.2 Applying knowledge of text types to own writing, 1.3.3 Non-fiction writing techniques, planning and proofreading, 1.3.4 Writing an article for a magazine or newspaper, 1.3.5 Writing a speech, 1.3.6 Writing a letter, 1.3.7 Writing a guide, 1.3.8 Writing a review, and 1.3.9 Writing the text of a leaflet. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.