How to Pass Cambridge B2 Writing — The Part 2 Blueprint
How to Pass Cambridge B2 Writing — The Part 2 Blueprint
PRODUCT TITLE
How to Pass Cambridge B2 Writing — The Part 2 Blueprint | Articles, Emails, Reports & Reviews
SHORT DESCRIPTION (shown in search results / card view — 150 characters max)
Four complete task type Blueprints for Cambridge B2 First Writing Part 2. Articles, emails, reports and reviews — from Empire English Online.
FULL DESCRIPTION
Part Two of the B2 First Writing Paper has four task types. This guide teaches all of them.
Most students who struggle with Part Two are not struggling because their English is weak. They are struggling because nobody has ever shown them clearly how each task type works — what it requires, how it should sound, and exactly how to structure it under exam pressure.
This guide does that. For all four.
What Is Inside
How to Pass Cambridge B2 Writing — The Part 2 Blueprint is a complete, practical guide to every task type in Part Two of the B2 First Writing Paper. Written by a Cambridge exam specialist with over fifteen years of international teaching experience, it covers articles, emails and letters, reports, and reviews in full — with a dedicated Blueprint, model answers, and vocabulary guidance for each one.
How to Choose Your Task
A clear, three-question method for selecting the right task on exam day — not the first one you recognise, but the one you can write most fluently, accurately, and completely.
The Four Marking Criteria — Applied to Part Two
A full explanation of how Content, Communicative Achievement, Organisation, and Language apply differently across each text type. What the examiner is actually asking when they mark a report is a different question from what they ask when they mark a review. This guide explains both.
The Article Blueprint
What an article is, what it is not, and why writing one like a formal essay is the most common — and most damaging — mistake students make. Includes five complete model articles across five different exam topics, a title technique guide, and a vocabulary bank for article register.
The Email and Letter Blueprint
Formal and informal. Both covered in full. The structure is the same; the language is entirely different. Includes the Yours sincerely / Yours faithfully rule, opening and closing phrase banks, and five complete model emails across formal application, formal complaint, informal advice, informal news, and semi-formal contexts.
The Report Blueprint
The most predictable text type in the exam — and the one most students avoid without reason. Includes the title, Introduction, findings sections, and Recommendations structure in full, with five complete model reports and a plain-English explanation of why no contractions means no contractions.
The Review Blueprint
Description without evaluation is not a review. This section teaches the difference, with five complete model reviews across film, restaurant, book, place, and event — each demonstrating the balance between description and judgement that the examiner is looking for.
Grammar the Examiner Wants to See
Eight grammar structures demonstrated across all four text types — passive voice, conditionals, relative clauses, subordinating conjunctions, impersonal structures, participle clauses, cleft sentences, and inversion — each shown in authentic Part Two contexts.
Vocabulary Upgrades by Register
The same eight weak words from Part One — good, bad, big, many, think, problem, help, show — upgraded across three columns: formal (reports and formal letters), semi-formal (articles and reviews), and informal (emails and letters). Because the right word depends on the reader.
The Five Most Common Part Two Mistakes
Wrong register. Missing content points. Correct text type, wrong conventions. Opinions without reasons. A weak ending. Each mistake explained, illustrated, and corrected.
Four Pre-Submission Checklists
One checklist per text type. Designed for the final two minutes of the exam. The easiest marks available — and the ones most students leave on the page.
Who This Guide Is For
Students preparing for the Cambridge B2 First (FCE) examination who need clear, practical guidance on Part Two of the Writing Paper — the component that covers articles, emails, letters, reports, and reviews.
This guide is particularly useful for:
- Students who feel confident with the Part One essay but uncertain about Part Two
- Independent learners who want a complete system rather than a collection of tips
- Students who have taken the exam before and lost marks on the writing component
- Teachers looking for a clear framework and model answers to share with B2 classes
The Complete Writing Series
✅ Part 1: The Essay Blueprint — available now (free)
✅ Part 2: The Part 2 Blueprint — Articles, Emails, Reports & Reviews ← You are here
About the Author
S J Macartney is a British English specialist and Cambridge exam materials writer with over fifteen years of international teaching experience. He is the founder of Empire English Online, a UK-registered educational publishing company producing exam preparation materials for learners from A2 to C2.
Opening the door to the world.
Inside This Student Edition
✅ How to choose the right task — every time
✅ Four complete task type Blueprints
✅ The ideal word count strategy
✅ Five complete model answers per task type
✅ Sentence-by-sentence structure guides
✅ Grammar structures for all four text types
✅ Vocabulary upgrades by register
✅ The five most common Part 2 mistakes
✅ Four pre-submission checklists
© 2026 S J Macartney — Empire English Online. All rights reserved.
TAGS (enter each separately in Payhip)
Cambridge B2 First, FCE writing, B2 writing Part 2, Cambridge exam preparation, B2 article writing, B2 report writing, B2 review writing, B2 email writing, FCE Part 2, Cambridge writing paper, B2 First FCE, English exam guide, Empire English Online, formal English writing, upper intermediate English, B2 writing guide, Cambridge writing tasks
PRICE
£7.99
CATEGORY SUGGESTIONS
- Education > Language Learning
- Education > Test Preparation
- Books > Education
FILE NAME FOR UPLOAD
B2_Writing_Part2_EEO_FINAL.pdf
