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CELPIP Writing topics

One page for the whole Writing pool: the email topics and the survey topics, in the order the app draws them, each line leading to the prompt and the points it asks you to cover.

Each line opens the prompt it names, where the points the answer has to cover are listed. The Speaking topics are listed the same way.

Task 1 — Writing an Email

27 minutes · 150–200 words · all 24 in full, with the points to cover

1. The two washing machines in your apartment building have been out of order for three weeks
2. You paid for an eight-week swimming class at your local community centre
3. Your mother has come out of hospital and needs someone at home with her every weekday morning for the next…
4. You are going away for two weeks in February
5. A desk you ordered online arrived last Thursday
6. Your daughter will miss a week of school in May because the whole family is travelling to a relative's…
7. The transit authority has moved the bus stop that used to be at the end of your street
8. The daycare your son attends has raised its monthly fee by a quarter, starting in three weeks
9. The hospital in your city is asking for volunteers to sit with patients who have no visitors
10. A large branch on the city-owned tree in front of your house cracked in a storm last week
11. You paid a painter half of his fee in advance to paint your apartment
12. A company you once worked for is hiring, and a former colleague of yours has applied
13. You promised to drive your friend to the airport at five in the morning last Sunday
14. You booked a fifteen-minute parent-teacher interview about your son and did not go to it
15. Three families have moved into your apartment building since November and none of them has met the other…
16. Your citizenship ceremony has been scheduled for a Friday morning next month, and the hall has room for two…
17. A friend has asked to borrow your car for a two-week road trip through the mountains in August
18. The chair of the parent council at your daughter's school has asked you to take the treasurer's position…
19. An employment counsellor at a newcomer services centre spent four sessions with you on your resume and on…
20. When your family arrived in Canada you stayed with your aunt for two months
21. A water and sewer bill for the whole year has arrived from the city, and it is much larger than usual…
22. Your road test for a full driving licence is booked for a Tuesday morning in three weeks
23. From April your son will be collected from school by his uncle on three afternoons a week instead of taking…
24. A close friend moved to another province last summer and has written to ask how your first winter in the…

Task 2 — Responding to Survey Questions

26 minutes · 150–200 words · all 24 in full, with the points to cover

1. Your city has enough money to build one new facility in your neighbourhood park, and is asking residents…
2. The company you work for is asking staff how it should spend the same amount of money on one new benefit…
3. Your public library has room in its budget for one change and is asking members to vote
4. The owner of your apartment building is planning one improvement this year and has asked every tenant to…
5. Your local school board is deciding how to use one hour of the school day and is asking parents in the…
6. The transit authority in your city can pay for one change to bus service next year, and is asking riders to…
7. The company you work for has one spare room on your floor and can convert it into one of two things
8. Your city has received a one-time grant that must be spent on the main street downtown, and is asking…
9. The school council at your child's elementary school has enough money to start one new program in September…
10. The tenants' association in your building has to decide what to do with the money it collects each month,…
11. Your community centre can build one addition next year and is asking the people who use the building which…
12. Your employer has a fixed training budget for next year and can use it in one of two ways
13. The community health centre in your area has been given money for one change and is asking the people who…
14. A settlement agency that helps newcomers in your city can add one service next year, and is asking the…
15. The free English classes for adults in your city have money to change one thing next term
16. The transit authority must spend an accessibility grant on one project and is asking riders to decide
17. The hospital in your city has received a one-time grant to make appointments easier to arrange, and is…
18. Your municipality is changing household collection next year and has asked every address to answer the…
19. The food bank in your neighbourhood has received a donation large enough for one project, and is asking the…
20. Your city can pay for one new service for seniors who live on their own, and has asked residents for their…
21. The college where you take evening classes has a grant it can spend in one of two ways, and is asking…
22. Your department has been given money for one thing next year, and your manager has asked the whole team to…
23. The province has money to improve licensed childcare in your region and is asking parents which change they…
24. Long power failures during storms have become common in your area, and the municipality is asking residents…