Writing for IELTS: a guide to structuring your response
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This book is aimed at those who are preparing for the IELTS exam. It details what the writing section requires and goes through in detail each part of the writing test. There are examples of essays, letters and diagrams written by the author as well as original work done by the author's students. These have been commented on in detail, explaining what mistakes were made and advises on how to rectify them. It is suitable for those taking either the academic or general test.
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Writing for IELTS - William Shearmur
Writing for IELTS: a guide to structuring your response
By William Shearmur
Copyright 2013 William Shearmur
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Table of contents:
Thanks
IELTS writing: overview
Writing Essays
Forming Ideas
General Writing
Academic Writing
Examples of students' work
Acknowledgements
Thanks:
I would like to thank Diliara Galiamova for having provided me with one of the best teaching jobs one could possibly imagine. I have been trusted to devise and teach our students as I see fit with hardly any intervention from above. This has been very much appreciated as I have been able to explore various ideas, some more successful than others, with the knowledge that I will always be supported.
I am very grateful to the students who have had to toil and sweat as well as be used as guinea pigs. They are the ones who have unwittingly given me precious feedback and insights as to what works and helped me develop as a teacher.
I would like to thank Murray McMillan for his comments on this book as I was writing it; and to my father, Colin Shearmur, for revising the book. Their thoughts and comments made me understand I was on the right track.
Finally, to the CELTA teachers at NILE (Norwich Institute For Language Education) for giving me the belief in myself and the courage to put pen to paper.
For those of you wanting more information on IELTS and practice at home, go on to:
http://www.ecole2012.wordpress.com
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IELTS writing:
Overview
There are two types of IELTS tests: ‘academic’ and ‘general’. In both types you will have two written tasks.
For the ‘general’:
Task 1: write a letter
Task 2: write an essay
For the ‘academic’:
Task 1: describe a graph
Task 2: write an essay.
The general and academic part of the test each last 60 minutes.
In both types of test, you should spend 20 minutes on the first task and write a minimum of 150 words. For the essay you need to spend 40 minutes on it and write a minimum of 250 words.
Out of the 9 points you can get, 3 are given for task 1 and 6 for task 2. For this reason it is advised that in the exam you write the essay first and then go on to task 1.
If you do not finish either of the tasks, you will lose marks. It is better to lose one mark for not finishing task 1 than losing two marks for not finishing the essay.
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Writing Essays:
In IELTS you have 40 minutes to write a minimum of 250 words. To be able to achieve this you should divide your time into three parts:
The planning stage has four parts:
1) Understand the task
2) Brainstorm
3) Sort out ideas
4) Skeleton of essay
Planning is an essential part of writing any essay and counts for about 70% of the work, even though examiners will not mark it. The reason why it is so important is that this is where you are giving yourself the chance to think about what you are going to write and check to see if the ideas fit the topic. If they don’t, you WILL lose marks!
When writing an essay there are