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The title of this post was what an IELTS candidate said to me in an email about her IELTS Academic writing test last Saturday.
To avoid being shocked in your IELTS test, remember that in writing task 1 you may have to summarise the information in a graph, chart, table or diagram (or more than one of these). Read the full post »
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The key to making fewer mistakes in your IELTS writing is to know what mistakes you make, what kind of mistakes they are, and how to correct them.
One way to do this is to make an error correction log, a list of your common mistakes and their corrections.
Have a look at these corrected sentences from an IELTS candidate’s essay on the importance of maintaining old buildings, and then check out the error correction log below.
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Reading about the world nuclear summit in the USA, I was reminded of the IELTS Writing task 2 question that I posted a few weeks ago on the benefits and disadvantages of nuclear technology.
Looking at the question again, I can see how difficult it would be to answer if you’re not familiar with this topic.
As it’s possible that you could get a similar question in your IELTS test, here’s a summary of the benefits and disadvantages.
The benefits:
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In IELTS Academic Writing task 1, how do you introduce the graph, chart, table or diagram?
Many of the IELTS candidates who I work with use ‘The chart shows…‘ or ‘The diagram illustrates…‘ but are often unsure about what information should come next.
For this reason, I’d like to show you some examples of how you can write this kind of sentence for a particular chart. (You can find the chart on the official IELTS website under ‘Academic Writing sample’).
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In our recent IELTS seminar, I provided some words and phrases like ‘cause‘ and ‘result in‘ that can be used to show a cause/effect relationship between ideas.
Such words and phrases are often useful when writing an IELTS writing task 2 essay.
Here’s a list with some examples of how they could be used in an answer to the essay question in my post ‘To what extent…‘.
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