IELTS Writing Task 2

Writing skills

1. Position, Structure, Ideas
2. Sentence-level writing
3. How to build a paragraph
4. Three paragraph types
5. Developing your ideas
6. Improving a paragraph
7. Two-idea paragraph
8. Sentence ‘jobs’
9. Concise, Clear, Coherent
10. Be more coherent
11. Detailed examples
12. ‘Two adjectives’ technique
13. A one-adjective paragraph
14. Three essay outlines
15. The essay skeleton
16. Firstly, Secondly, Finally
17. Comparing 3 paragraphs
18. Better linking
19. Sentences have jobs
20. Using model sentences
21. Sentence pairs
22. Sentence pairs analysis
23. Advanced cohesion
24. Paragraph analysis
25. Improving a paragraph
26. Essay skeleton
27. Overall coherence
28. A more coherent outline
29. One idea or two ideas

Writing advice

1. What’s your writing style?
2. Stick to the method
3. Pre-test planning
4. Spend longer planning
5. Terrible templates 1
6. Terrible templates 2
7. Minimalist templates
8. Trying to be impressive
9. When to give your opinion
10. Plan for 13 sentences
11. Write 13 sentences

Topic paragraphs

1. Benefits of immigration
2. Parents and children
3. Benefits of robots
4. Fossil Fuels
5. Benefits of learning music

Model Essays

Agree or disagree?

1. Teach skills instead of facts
2. Music connects people
3. First impressions
4. Parenting courses
5. Sugary products
6. Learning an instrument

Discuss both views

1. Artificial Intelligence
2. Genetic Engineering
3. Children’s choices

Problem and solution

1. City life
2. Ageing populations
3. Hunger
4. Traffic congestion

Positive or negative?

1. Living alone
2. Studying online

Two-part questions

1. Working hard
2. Measure countries’ success
3. Home history
4. Owning or renting
5. Self-employment
6. Best time to be alive