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English as a Second Language

Stage 5

Paper 3 Writing 2026

30 minutes

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Part 1
1 Complete the message from Tommy to Lisa. Write the lines of text in the correct
order.
play it with you. I know you’ve got

for dinner if you like. See you

then. Tommy

me how to play it. Mum

for my birthday and I want to

Are you free on Friday

says you can stay

the same one, so you can show

after school? I got a new computer game

Hi Lisa

Are you free on Friday

then.

Tommy
[3]

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2 You had an interesting lesson at school yesterday.

Write a message to your friend.

Tell your friend:

• which lesson you had


• what you did in the lesson
• why the lesson was interesting.

Write 30–40 words.

[6]

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Part 2

3 Look at Helena’s message. There are four punctuation mistakes. Put this
punctuation into Helena’s message to correct her mistakes.

• one capital letter


• one apostrophe (’)
• one question mark (?)
• one full stop (.)

Hi

My cousin’s coming to stay this weekend. Her names Carrie and she’s the same

age as us I think you’ll like her because she’s really friendly. On saturday, we’ll go

shopping. Can you come with us I’d love to see you so just let me know.

Helena

[4]

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Part 3

4 Read the beginning of the story. It is called ‘Tina’s strange note’.


Write what happens next.

Write 50–60 words.

‘Tina’s strange note’

Yesterday, Tina arrived at school early. When she walked into her
classroom, she saw a note on her desk.

[9]

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