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Hello, in this lesson I'm going to show you how to write an introduction paragraph for your IELTS writing task 2 essay. Now, this is the essay title: "The best way to improve health is to do regular exercise. To what extent do you agree?" First, let's analyze the statement. The statement suggests that regular exercise is the best solution for improving health, and now we are required to give our opinion on to what extent we agree. This means we need to consider how much we agree with the statement and if there is anything we disagree with. Let's now discuss what information we need to include in our introduction. In many academic essays, there are three parts to the introduction - the hook, the background statement, and the thesis statement. However, for IELTS essays, we don't need to include a hook. Firstly, the examiner is not assessing the level of interest in the essay, so it does not matter if the introduction is interesting or boring. Secondly, considering the limited time of 40 minutes for writing the essay, it is unnecessary to spend time on a hook that the examiner doesn't require. Therefore, we can skip the hook and focus on the background statement and thesis statement. The background statement is essentially a paraphrase of the given statement. We need to rewrite it using our own words while maintaining the same meaning. Copying the sentence directly will not help us in the essay, as the examiner is looking for originality. The thesis statement is our answer to the extent to which we agree or disagree with the statement. It should also serve as an introduction to our ideas. In this lesson, I will guide you on how to write both the background and thesis statements. Let's start with...