IELTS Advantage Writing Skills A step-by-step guide to a high IELTS writing score (Delta Exam Preparation)

Contents

Introduction

Unit 1 Advantages and disadvantages essays 1: Living abroad

• Spotlight 1 Writing about life changes and experiences 2 Verb patterns • Model essay: Advantages and disadvantages • Structure and linking: Organizing your essay • Writing introductions • Writing conclusions • Exam skills 1 Topic sentences 2 Avoiding generalizations in your writing

Unit 2 Problem and solution essays 1: Education and teaching

• Spotlight 1 Collocations for writing about education 2 Academic language for writing about solutions • Model essay: Problems and solutions • Structure and linking: Contrasting ideas • Language workout: Word-building • Grammar and phrases for introductions • Exam skills 1 Grammar and vocabulary for writing conclusions 2 Building a good paragraph

Unit 3 Opinion essays 1: Crime

• Spotlight 1 Key language for writing about crime 2 Key structures: make/let/allow • Model essay: Opinions • Structure and linking: Supporting arguments and opinions • Writing introductions for opinion essays • Dealing with discussion essays • Exam skills 1 Expressing someone else's opinion 2 Using articles correctly

Unit 4 Advantages and disadvantages essays 2: Work

• Spotlight 1 Key language for writing about work and careers 2 Avoiding generalizations: using tend (not) to • Model essay: Advantages and disadvantages • Structure and linking: in spite of/despite • Language workout: Word formation • Exam skills 1 Using pronouns to link ideas and avoid repetition 2 Using the passive 3 Key adverbs for emphasis, opinion and style

Unit 5 Problem and solution essays 2: Cities

• Spotlight 1 Collocations and common phrases about cities 2 Singular and plural forms • Model essay: Problems and solutions • Structure and linking: in order to / so as to / so that • Language workout: Word-building • General vocabulary for writing about solutions • Exam skills 1 Developing topic sentences 2 Using the second conditional to write about solutions

Unit 6 Opinion essays 2: Running a business 67

• Spotlight 1 Qualifying your opinion 2 Giving an opinion about future trends • Model essay: Opinions • Structure and linking: instead (of) • Relative clauses • Exam skills 1 Checking and editing your essays 2 Using noun phrases

Unit 7 Graphs with a trend 79

1 Re-wording the introduction 2 Writing an overview 3 Language to describe changes 1: Verbs and adverbs 4 Language to describe changes 2: Adjectives and nouns • Model answer: Graphs with a trend • Exam skills 1 Joining two changes together 2 Prepositions and articles 3 Commenting on the data in a graph • Next steps 1 Writing about graphs with a future trend 2 Tables and bar graphs with trends

• Spotlight 1 Key language for making comparisons 2 More comparative structures 3 Advanced comparatives and linking devices 4 Describing numbers • Model answer: Comparative graphs • Exam skills 1 Numerical comparatives 2 Ranking information 3 Improving your writing style • Next steps 1 Dealing with more than one graph 2 Developing your range of language and vocabulary

Unit 9 Processes and maps 103

• Spotlight 1 Using the present simple passive to describe a process 2 Linking stages together • Exam skills 1 Giving extra information about a stage 2 Writing the introduction and overview • Model answer: Processes • Exam skills 3 Grammar and vocabulary for maps 4 Noun phrases for maps • Model answer: Maps

TASK 1 • Spotlight

Unit 8 Comparative graphs 91

Answer key

Sample student answers 115 126