IELTS Model Essays (65 High Scoring Essay) By IELTSBuddy By IELTS Buddy

Introduction

Welcome to the IELTS buddy Model Essays eBook!

The eBook is packed full of high-scoring IELTS essays so is an excellent resource for studying how to write IELTS essays - from understanding the types of topics that come up to structuring your essay and presenting your ideas.

Each essay has tips and advice to help you understand the approach to writing it and why it was a good essay. These tips will mainly focus on aspects related to the IELTS grading system, namely:

Task Response Coherence and Cohesion Lexical Resource Grammatical Range and Accuracy

The essays don’t have a band score however they will all range from band 7.5 - 9. The longer ones will be band 9, as these will be representative of strong writers who are able to present more ideas and arguments in the given time of 40 minutes.

Remember though that a long essay does not automatically get a higher band score as the grading takes account of all the criteria mentioned above - only write within your ability!

The chapters of the eBook are divided up into the common types of questions that appear in IELTS for easy reference, which are:

Agree / Disagree Discuss Two Opinions Causes (and Effects; Solutions; Pros/Cons) Problems and Solutions Advantages and Disadvantages Other Types of Questions

The last covers some that don’t fit the above patterns.

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Advertising Essay

This essay for IELTS is on the subject of advertising.

There are various types of questions you can get in the IELTS writing test and you'll see samples of them all over the following pages, but this one is an agree / disagree essay.

In these types of essays, you are presented with one opinion. Take a look at the opinion here in the question:

Some of the methods used in advertising are unethical and unacceptable in today’s society.

To what extent do you agree with this view?

So your options are:

1. Agree 100% 2. Disagree 100% 3. Partly agree

In the answer below, the writer agrees 100% with the opinion.

As you can see, the writers opinion is made clear in the thesis statement (the last sentence of the introduction).

All the body paragraphs then explain why the writer disagrees. In other words, it discusses the negative aspects of advertising.

Model Answer

Some of the methods used in advertising are unethical and unacceptable in today’s society.

To what extent do you agree with this view?

The world that we live in today is dominated by advertising. Adverts are on television, on the World Wide Web, in the street and even on our mobile phones. However, many of the strategies used to sell a product or service can be considered immoral or unacceptable.

To begin with, the fact that we cannot escape from advertising is a significant cause for complaint. Constant images and signs wherever we look can be very intrusive and irritating at times. Take for example advertising on the mobile phone. With the latest technology mobile companies are now able to send advertising messages via SMS to consumers' phones whenever they choose. Although we expect adverts in numerous situations, it now seems that there are very few places we can actually avoid them.

A further aspect of advertising that I would consider unethical is the way that it encourages people to buy products they may not need or cannot