Keyword: «opinion essay»

Opinion essay (task № 40) is one of the most difficult tasks in the state national exam the successful com-pletion of which guarantees students 14 points. This article presents the author’s personal view on the senior students’ preparation for this task. The author offers some useful tips that will reduce difficulties when doing this task.

The article is devoted to such type of secondary student texts in English as an essay-opinion (opinion essay). The author covers the problems of studying secondary student texts and describes the stylistic, as well as structural and lexical-grammatical characteristics of opinion-essay in foreign educational and scientific discourse.