TASK 8. (30 points)
Choose one of the topics below and write a composition of 300 - 350 words.
Mark the chosen topic.
an accident resulting from your reckless behaviour.
\na person inexperienced in cooking.
Please note: if you use more than 420 words, you will get 0 points for the structure of
your composition.
FINAL COPY
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TREŚĆ
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POPRAWNOŚĆ
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RAZEM
Poziom
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Liczba
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ROUGH DRAFT
Writing task (choice of two topics: a story about an accident from trying an extreme sport, or a review of a cooking TV programme for beginners; 300-350 words; graded by an examiner). Sample worked answer to topic 1 (the story):
\nThe Dare
\nIt was Kuba who first suggested paragliding, and it was Kuba who, three weeks later, was standing next to me at the top of the cliff, grinning as if we were about to do something entirely sensible.
\n"Trust me," he said, checking the straps on my harness with the confidence of someone who had done this exactly twice before. "It's basically just running off the edge and then... flying."
\nI should have listened to the small, reasonable voice in my head that pointed out neither of us had taken a single lesson, that the instructor we'd half-watched on a video the night before had specifically said not to fly in wind conditions like this, and that the sky above the valley was turning an unpleasant shade of grey. Instead, I listened to Kuba, and to the part of myself that desperately wanted to prove I wasn't as cautious as everyone always said I was.
\nWe ran. The wind caught the wing harder than I expected, and for one glorious moment I was airborne, the valley spreading out beneath me like a green and gold map. Then a gust twisted the canopy sideways, and the ground, which had looked so far away a second earlier, was suddenly rushing up to meet me far too fast.
\nI remember the impact more than the fall itself - a jarring crack in my left leg that made the whole world go white for a second, followed by a pain so total it left no room for anything else, not even fear. Kuba's face appeared above me, all colour drained from it, shouting my name as though shouting could undo what had just happened.
\nThe paramedics who eventually reached us on the mountain track said I was lucky - a broken leg and two cracked ribs, nothing that wouldn't heal, though it would take months. Lying in the hospital bed afterwards, my leg suspended in a cast, I had plenty of time to think about how close "lucky" had come to meaning something far worse.
\nKuba visited every day, apologising each time as though the accident had been entirely his doing. It hadn't, not really - I was the one who had jumped. But we both understood, without needing to say it aloud, that some dares are worth refusing, no matter how much you want to prove yourself. I haven't been paragliding since. I don't think I ever will again.
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