Write a conclusion to complete my essay outline or ‘skeleton’.

Use my template to write a two-sentence introduction.

Can you list the changes that I made to a student’s paragraph in order to improve ‘task response’?

Here’s my analysis of a writing style that doesn’t work for IELTS essays.

Read a student’s paragraph and see if you can identify the task response problems.

To ensure that I stay on topic, I like to imagine a ‘topic thread’ running or weaving through my paragraphs.

Sometimes the best way to think of ideas for an essay is to start with an example.

Everyone has a writing style. Maybe you don’t realise it, or you haven’t thought about it, but you have a writing style too.

Compare two sentences written by students with my improved versions.

In this lesson we compare a paragraph that stays on-topic with two sentences that go off-topic.

Many students make the mistake of writing their ‘agree or disagree’ essays in this way. Can you see what’s wrong?

Many IELTS candidates write paragraphs that are too general or superficial, and the main idea doesn’t seem to go anywhere.

In this lesson we will analyse a main body paragraph in terms of its length, coherence, cohesion and the writing method used.

Let’s write a balanced opinion essay skeleton for the task about tourists and cultural differences.

Let’s start work on a new essay topic, and try to present a viewpoint that is in the middle between ‘agree’ and ‘disagree’.

Here’s a quick exercise that highlights some of the good vocabulary that I used in last week’s ‘professionals’ essay.

Some students write long conclusions because they think that a long, ‘impressive’ conclusion will boost their scores. Is this true?

Can you write a suitable conclusion to finish my ‘essay skeleton’ for the discussion task about professionals moving abroad?

Can you finish my essay introduction in today’s lesson?

How do you write a ‘firstly, secondly, finally’ paragraph without using these linking words? Open this lesson to see my answer.

I advise students to use two types of example in their essays. Do you know what they are?

This lesson will test your understanding of the “concede + answer” structure!

Are you writing long, complicated introductions, or have you learnt my more effective method?

In this lesson we’re writing a paragraph that contains two ideas and two supporting examples.

Let’s look at a ‘partly agree’ essay structure for the ‘pictures vs words’ essay task.

I use the term ‘essay skeleton’ to refer to the main structural parts of an essay, or the ‘bones’ that hold the essay together. Let’s look at an example.

In this lesson I’m going to try to write the easiest introduction that I can.