After a day or two at home, I remember going back to my other place of work and my boss was very sympathetic with my situation until I told her I was the one who did the cooking, not some dodgy restaurant!

Anyhow, you definitely won’t get a topic like “the day I got food poisoning.” Instead, it’ll be a more general topic.

You will get asked to write a story based on a general theme or common experience. The exam question may give you the opening or closing sentence or ask you to write about a true event. Likewise, the question may ask you to be creative.

Cambridge don’t want you to copy out a story but if you do a few good pieces of writing during the year, you might find that one of them may suit one the topics in the exam