IELTS Advantage Writing Skills

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IELTS Advantage Writing Skills provides a structured, step-by-step path to reach a 6.5–7.0+ score in the Academic IELTS Writing module. It trains core performance areas: academic vocabulary for main topics, accurate grammar with complex structures, clear paragraph organization, and well-developed ideas that fully answer the prompt. The book organizes practice by essay types (advantages/disadvantages, problem/solution, opinion) and adds focused exam skills for introductions, conclusions, linking, and language precision.

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Reading Time5 h 25 min

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Introduction

About the exam

The IELTS scoring system

Unit 1 Advantages and disadvantages essays 1: Living abroad

Unit 2 Problem and solution essays 1: Education and teaching

Unit 3 Opinion essays 1: Crime

Unit 4 Advantages and disadvantages essays 2: Work

Unit 5 Problem and solution essays 2: Cities

Unit 6 Opinion essays 2: Running a business

Unit 7 Graphs with a trend

Unit 8 Comparative graphs

Unit 9 Processes and maps

IELTSADVANTAGEWRITINGSKILLSA step-by-stepguide to a highIELTS writing scoreRICHARD BROWNLEWIS RICHARDS TASK 2 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 www.frenglish.ru 5 7 19 31 43 TASK 1 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 Sample student answers www.frenglish.ru 115 126 # Introduction Aim of the book IELTS Advantage Writing Skills is designed for students who want to achieve a score of 6.5-7.0 or higher in the Writing module of the Academic IELTS exam.

FAQs

What writing score does the book aim to help students achieve?

The book is designed for students targeting a 6.5–7.0 or higher score in the Academic IELTS Writing module.

Which four areas do IELTS examiners evaluate according to the book?

The book highlights Vocabulary, Grammar, Organization, and Ideas and arguments as the four evaluation areas.

How does the book structure practice for different IELTS Writing task types?

Practice is organized by essay and question types, including advantages/disadvantages, problem/solution, opinion essays, and graph/process writing, each with focused structure and language skills.

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