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    The document provides guidance on preparing for the IELTS exam. It discusses the tasks assessed in the exam and offers tips on summarizing information, organizing paragraphs, and structuring different types of essays. The document emphasizes introducing the topic, differentiating main ideas from minor details, and providing an overview without new information in introductions and conclusions. It also stresses using topic sentences and supporting sentences to ensure paragraph coherence.

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    IELTS

    PREPARATION BOOKLET

    ACADEMIC
    TASK 1
    …….
    ……………
    IMPORTANT INFORMATION
     Don’t give your production a title.
     Try to PARAPHRASE the information that precedes the chart and use it in your
    INTRODUCTION.
     Differentiate MAIN FEATURES from MINOR DETAILS. Make sure you include the first.
     Don’t forget to add RELEVANT DATA & FIGURES (not generalisations or broad trends)
     Remember that the closing statement is not a conclusion, but an OVERVIEW.
     There is a MINIMUM of words but not a MAXIMUM.

    Paragraph Organization
    All paragraphs include a controlling, TOPIC SENTENCE that comes first in the text, followed
    by two or three subordinate, SUPPORTING sentences. Afterwards, you may want to
    include another sentence that provides an EXAMPLE, and/or round it up with a sentence
    where you illustrate the presented idea with your own EXPERIENCE.

    Visually, a paragraph should look like this:

    [TOPIC SENTENCE] + [SUPPORT SENT 1] + [SUPPORT SENT 2] +

    [EXAMPLE] + [OWN EXPERIENCE]

    As you can see, to write a coherent and well-organized paragraph, ALL SENTENCES must
    refer to the TOPIC SENTENCE.
    The best way to check if this is accomplished, is by reading the TS and considering if it is
    a suitable summary of the whole paragraph. If somehow the main idea is in another part
    of the text, or if there is an idea that doesn’t fit into the main one, then our paragraph
    needs further correction and analysis.
    Task-based work

    Complete the following scheme with the ideas that you’ve taken:

    Introduction

    What table shows

    General Trend

    Differences (detail)

    Overview
    Important! Remember that the Introduction and Overview DO NOT add new
    information, but preview/recall what the main paragraphs will describe in further detail

    TASK 2

    Types of essays tested in IELTS exam:


     Agree or disagree
     Advantages (Benefits) outweigh  Problems and solutions
    disadvantages (drawbacks)  Problems and results
     Discuss two views (and give your  Reacting to a topic (giving your own
    opinion) opinion)

    Understanding the task


    Essay Organization

    To be able to discuss each part of the essay in more detail, let’s look at this model task:

    Introduction

    Conclusion
    Body Paragraphs
    Paragraphs should follow the same internal structure that was presented in Task 1:

    [TOPIC SENTENCE] + [SUPPORT SENT 1] + [SUPPORT SENT 2] +

    [EXAMPLE] + [OWN EXPERIENCE]

    What each paragraph will be about depends on the overall structure we choose for our
    production. This, in turn, will be shaped by the type of essay we are asked to write, so it
    is very important to read and understand the task before we organize our paragraphs.
    Let’s look at some organizer models for the different IELTS essay types:

    Advantages and disadvantages

    INTRODUCTION

    SUPP SENT 1
    ADVANTAGES 
    SUPP SENT 2

    DISADVANTAGES  SUPP SENT 1

    SUPP SENT 2

    CONCLUSION

    The main important feature is to make a straightforward paragraph organization that can lead
    to a clear distinction between the advantages and disadvantages of the issue. It is advisable,
    however, to acknowledge both sides of the matter, despite the “side” you take.
    Discuss two views

    INTRODUCTION

    SUPP SENT 1
    SIMILARITIES
    SUPP SENT 2

    SUPP SENT 1
    DIFFERENCES
    SUPP SENT 2

    CONCLUSION

    Problems and solutions/results

    INTRODUCTION

    SUPP SENT 1 (WHY)


    SOLUTION / RESULT 1
    SUPP SENT 2 (WHY)

    SOLUTION / RESULT 2 SUPP SENT 1 (WHY)

    SUPP SENT 2 (WHY)

    CONCLUSION

    Word Bank
    Extra Vocabulary Exercises

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