The Writing Phrase Bank
150+ phrases that lift your C1 Advanced writing into the 180+ range. Across all five task types, with model paragraphs from real student writing.
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Every task type, sorted
The exam gives you five kinds of writing task. Each one has its own page in the bank, organised by what every paragraph is doing: opening, developing, contrasting, closing.
The Essay
Discuss two options, then commit to one. Formal register, written for a tutor.
The Review
Personal, opinionated, specific. Register depends on who you are writing for.
The Report
Describe and recommend. Neutral and impersonal, with compulsory headings.
The Proposal
Looks like a report, but it persuades. The closing line has to make them say yes.
Email & Letter
Formal, semi-formal or informal. Register comes from the audience, not the format.
Not just a word list
The phrases are the frame. Your ideas fill it. Here is what makes the bank actually move your score.
Sorted by paragraph role
Pick 2 to 4 phrases per role that genuinely sound like you, then reuse them.
A model paragraph on every page
See exactly how the phrases sit inside real 180+ student writing.
An examiner insight on each
The one thing that quietly costs marks on that task, and how to fix it. Plus a bonus chapter of phrases to avoid.
Real students, real results
They used these phrases until their writing stopped sounding translated and started sounding like a clean C1 pass.
Stop sounding translated. Start sounding like a C1 pass.
Pick the phrases that genuinely sound like you, reuse them across every task, and watch your writing climb into the 180+ range.
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