Writing Task 2

Essay Planning
• Writing task 2 will be the last task which you'll
do (if you decide to do it last)
• To ensure that you write a good essay, you
need to plan it
• Out of 40 minutes, use at least 5 minutes to
plan your essay
 Writing Task 2

What you can do before taking

your IELTS test
• Look for IELTS Writing model
questions for topics
• Watch a debate video
 Writing Task 2
Essay Planning
• Identifying the issues
• Brainstorming ideas
• Choosing the best main points
• Planning supporting details
• Organising paragraph
 Writing Task 2
Identifying the issues

In many countries schools have severe

problems with student behaviour.
What do you think are the causes of this?
What solutions can you suggest?
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Brainstorming ideas and choose the best one
Cause Solution
• Classroom • Better seating
Environment arrangement
• More groupwork
• Desire for Power
assignment
• Poor Parenting • Public awareness
campaign
 Writing Task 2
Planning supporting details
Poor Parenting Public awareness campaign
• Many parents either do not teach • warn of the dangers of
their youngsters the value
misbehaviour
respecting authority
• Many young people will not listen • In UK recently, citizens teach
to their teachers their children about the
• In recent study, 1 in 3 teenagers importance of respecting
would refuse to comply with a rule teachers and resulted in a
if they didn’t agree with it dramatic improvement.
 Matching information/ Matching feature
Matching information
• Usually, the passage will be labelled by letters/numbers
• All information in the questions are available in the
passage
• Information in the questions will not be in order

Matching feature
• The references will only consist of one particular feature
(e.g. name of a person, year, nationalities)
 Matching information/ Matching feature
Write the correct letter A-C, in
boxes 11-13 on your answer
sheet.
11. A description of the way
society views the elderly.
12. A reaction to the rights for
the elderly living in our society.
13. The effect of our
surroundings partnered with our
own personality traits, which
Match the features >>
• WHO and UNICEF
• Bandana Das
• Health workers
A. leads the way in good hygiene
practices in India
B. wrote a report about the shortage
of midwives in India
C. communicated information about
some places having no water
D. often do not clean their hands
E. Performed tests on the water in
India
 Matching information/ Matching feature

TIPS
• Skimming and scanning
• Look for particular reference such as year,
name of a researcher, name of a
company, etc.
• Paraphrase the questions
 Matching sentence endings
Combination between sentence completion and matching information
Example:
1. Weight issues are created when
2. Having a job where you are sitting for long periods of time or no exercise in
your regular routine can
3. The situation around you can affect your

A. the number of calories burned are not the same as the calories that have
been eaten
B. lead to weight gain, because of less movement
C. make a person gain weight and go out less
D. outlook on life, which affects your daily diet and exercise routine
 Matching sentence endings
TIPS
• Skimming and scanning
• Paraphrase the questions
• Choose your answers through an elimination
process. Which ones do not fit? Which ones
can you dismiss?