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Writing skills / Richard Brown, Lewis Richards.

Writing skills / Richard Brown, Lewis Richards.
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ISBN 9783125015760 paperback
Name Brown, Richard author.
Title Writing skills / Richard Brown, Lewis Richards.
Edition First edition.
Published Surrey, England Delta Publishing, 2011
©2017
Description 129 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm.
Notes "A step-by-step guide to a high IELTS writing score"-- Cover.
First published in 2011.
Contents 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 -- 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 -- Spotlight -- 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 -- Unit 8 Comparative graphs -- 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 -- 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 -- Answer key.
Summary This book is a fully comprehensive resource for passing the writing section of the IELTS exam with a grade of 6.5-7.0 or higher. Students are guided step-by-step through the different tasks in the writing module, using material developed in the classroom, by authors with many years' experience in helping hundreds of IELTS candidates achieve a high IELTS score. This book shows students how to organise and structure an answer for all types of task 1 and 2 questions; contains a model essay in each unit, showing students exactly what is required; contains a general interest article in each unit, developing ideas and vocabulary for a common topic in the exam and more.
Subjects International English Language Testing System -- Study guides
English language -- Writing -- Examinations, questions, etc
English language -- Examinations
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers
English language -- Written English
Genre Study guides
Easy to read (blue : advanced)
Other Names Richards, Lewis author.
Series IELTS advantage
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