Why Form 8655 Tasks 2024

Hello everybody, my name is J. I'm one of the expert IELTS teachers here at e to language. What we're going to do is not write an essay; instead, we're going to look at some top tips. One tip, in particular, which I'm afraid to say will come right at the end of this presentation. But I need to take you through this presentation so that the tip at the end really makes sense to you, and so you fully utilize it to your benefit. So, what we're going to do specifically is look at real tips for how to score an 8 plus in writing task 2. Okay, let me first tell you my little experience. Maybe you've heard this before, maybe you haven't. I'm an English teacher, obviously, I'm a native English speaker. I had to take the IELTS four times before I got a decent score in writing. I could get nines in reading, listening, and speaking, no problem, it was still challenging, but writing, I got stuck on 7.5 three times. And so, I did some investigation into why it is that I got stuck, and why so many people get stuck at sort of 6.5 to 7. And it turns out that there are certain ways that you need to write your essay in order to boost your score. So, one of those ways is looking at grammar, and that's what we're going to look at here. These ugly-looking things are what the examiners use to mark your writing, and there's one here which focuses on two things: grammatical range and grammatical accuracy. Okay, these two things are key for boosting your score. The first one, grammatical range, means a variety of sentence types. Okay, you need to use a variety of different sentence types to boost...