Techniques to improve IELTS Essay writing
Good teachers will not only ask IELTS students to write essays, they will also try to check whether the level and knowledge of vocabulary and grammar awareness is adequate to produce an IELTS Band 6, 7 or 8 essay.
Using tests to check IELTS vocabulary and grammar.
A very good way that teachers can check how much a candidate can produce is by construction awareness tests like the following examples.
This test looks at producing a What are the causes and What measures and What solutions IELTS essay.
A further advantage of doing this is that students can gain a good understanding of organisation, sentence structure and language choices suitable for IELTS academic writing as well as an enhanced awareness of topic ideas.
This is far better than just the passive activity of reading and reviewing essays themselves, a technique often suggested by teachers of IELTS.
Enjoy!
Instructions
Writing is a creative process and there is no one way to write an essay.
- Read and complete the gaps in the essay.
- Once you have completed, check the answers.
- Note any new words to remember and grammar structures.
- Reset the essay to the beginning
- Then see how much and how quickly you can now complete the model writing.
Writing an IELTS causes and measures or solutions essay
⇒ Use this link for the next essay
Words used in this essay
long, increasing, personal, increasing, generations, ownership, leisure, upgrading, emissions, emissions, increasing, corporations, dependency, practical, increasing, alternative, development, benefits, walking, reduce, increasingly, limited, ownership, awareness, alternatives, encourage, remain, subsidising, redundant, manufacturer, dominates, bigger persuade, efficient, reduce, investment, measure, term, manufacturers, unnecessary, congestion, public, planning, majority, members, subsidise, regarded, petrol, climate, pollution, address, pollution, penalise, continue, affects, combustion, purchasing, options, affordable, initiatives, congestion, urban, repeated, average, reducing, efficient, running, required, term, demands, raising,
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