In the video, I use a sample task and answer from one of our IELTS e-books to show you how to give yourself the best chance of getting the IELTS Writing band score you need.
The sample task is a type of Writing Task 2 question that’s common in both IELTS Academic and General Training.
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As you probably know, in IELTS General Training Writing Task 1 you may have to write a letter of complaint about a product or service.
Here’s an example of this kind of writing task (taken from my post ‘IELTS General Training letter writing topics‘) and the letter of complaint that I wrote as a sample answer. Read the full post »
One of the things the examiner will look at in your writing is whether you choose words with the right meaning, i.e. whether you have enough vocabulary for the task.
Here’s part of a sentence from an IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 band 5.0 text from the Official IELTS Practice Materials that has some mistakes in word choice.
“Australia’s share of Japan’s tourist market it stood from 2 percentage to 6 percentage…”
In this sentence, which is describing some information in a graph, the candidate chose to use ‘stood’ instead of ‘increased’ and ‘percentage’ instead of ‘percent’ and both of these were mistakes with word choice. The sentence also contains a grammar mistake, the inclusion of the word ‘it’.
Here’s a corrected version of this part of the sentence: Read the full post »
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As you may have read in my post ‘What’s the first thing the examiner will look at in IELTS Writing Task 2‘, it’s important to answer all parts of the essay writing task in your IELTS test.
Here’s an example of how you can answer all parts of IELTS Writing Task 2 when you are asked to discuss two different views on a particular topic. (The IELTS Writing Task 2 is from the book Cambridge IELTS 8).
Some people think that parents should teach children how to be good members of society. Others, however, believe that school is the place to learn this.
Discuss both of these views and give your own opinion. Read the full post »
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As you probably know, in IELTS Academic writing task 1 you have to summarise the information in a graph, chart, table or diagram (or more than one of these).
To show you the kind of writing required for this task, have a look at the chart below from the official IELTS website, think about what information you should include in a written summary, and then read the following example answer.
The chart shows the number of men and women in further education in Britain in three periods and whether they were studying fulltime or part-time.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
