IELTS Academic Writing Task 1&2 By Rachel Mitchell (3)11
2. You must skip lines between paragraphs. This allows you to do a
couple of important things here. Skipping lines is going to make your
writing neater. That is important. Remember that the writing test, we are
dealing with the
human being
.
Who is the human being?
The examiner
,
and we need to make this guy happy. Right away, I want the examiner
when they have a pile of writings in front of them, and they might not feel
well, they might be hungry, they might have had an argument with their
boyfriend or girlfriend; they might just be sick of a pile of writings. When
they turn to look at your writing, and I want the first thing they think about
when they see your writing is that you are
a neat organized student . I want
you to
give them the first positive impression
. They often have to choose
between a 5.5 or 6.0; 6.5 or 7.0; I want them to have all reasons to give
you a 7.0, not 5.5 or 6.0, so you should make your examiner happy and
be
neat
.
3. Keep it simple: you should use exactly the list of task 1 vocabulary,
sentence structures that I have given you in this book.
Do not get
creativity. Trust me, you are probably wrong if you are creative. My
experience of over four years of teaching IELTS for many different levels
of students. They do not do well with creativity when it comes to IELTS
writing task 1. Please do what I tell you to do. It’s simple, but it will give
you a high score.
4. Corrections: it’s great that some of you do your writing, and then you
look at it, you think about it and you fix things/mistakes in your writing.
That’s awesome! If you catch your mistakes before your teacher catch
them,
you are doing a learning
. Who need to do a learning? You or your
teacher?
You. I very highly encourage you to write these kinds of reports
using your knowledge, taking your time, being careful and then walking
away from the reports. Go and take a nap, watch TV, have some coffee,
whatever, just forget about your homework, and then come back with your
fresh eyes and fresh mind, then
read your writing out loud
. I promise to
you that your ears will catch grammar mistakes because you hear a lot
more English than you ever read. Don’t you? Yes, same thing with the
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