🧮 Solución
Task-specific guidance (official marking notes, Criteria B and C):
The two required aspects of the task are: (i) describing the changes in sports and leisure activities caused by the budget reduction and (ii) describing how these affected young people. Equal weight does not have to be given to those two elements, but both should be given some developed attention. If any aspect is ignored or given only cursory attention, no more than the 4–6 band ("generally fulfilled") should be awarded.
- "Changes" could include, but should not be limited to, less personnel employed in community sport areas, less equipment available to athletes, the closing of pools, practice areas, courts, fields, gyms, green areas, etc.
- Candidates should focus primarily on how young people have been/were affected by these changes, even though an additional general comment about the city's population should not be penalized.
- Candidates may or may not include themselves in the youth affected by the city council's decision but should share an insight into the situation that is well described and supported.
Choice of text type (Criterion C):
- Appropriate: Letter — its purpose is focused on complaining about the problem and its implications and it has a specific recipient (the city council), which should be explicitly referred to/addressed.
- Generally appropriate: Report — could be used to describe changes and their effect; may be "appropriate" if (1) it is objective throughout / does not include the candidate's opinion, (2) it explicitly addresses the City Council and (3) it establishes a voice/authority (e.g. representative of the neighbourhood council).
- Generally inappropriate: Proposal — merely used to suggest solutions; suitable for suggesting ways of solving problems to an individual with decision-making authority, but usually produced on request.
Register and tone: formal register with possible flashes of semi-formality; serious, disappointed and polite but complaining tone.
Text-type conventions — Letter: clear identification of recipient (by name, address or role/title); date (and/or sender's address; bracketed part required for formal letters); opening and closing salutations. Report (official): relevant title; neutral/objective style (presents ideas and facts without embellishment); clearly set-out format (sub-headings, short numbered paragraphs/sections). Proposal: title summarising the overall subject; clearly set-out format (headings, short clear paragraphs, bullets, numbering, insetting); style aimed to persuade a specified audience.