Daily bread 05/06/2016

• Teaching Handbook: Evaluation of Learning - Crafting Questions

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• IELTS Test Prepcast Episode 005 - IELTS Writing Skills: IELTS Writing Task 2

  • There are three basic types of question for IELTS writing task 2
  • “Discuss both these views and give your own opinion,”
  • argument-led approach
  • In the argument-led approach, you shouldn’t really mention your own opinion until you get to the conclusion.
  • the thesis-led approach
  • you immediately mention your opinion
  • “To what extent do you agree with this?”
  • You decide whether you agree, completely agree, completely disagree, or whether you partially agree, and then you say why you think what you think.
  • a problems-and-solutions kind of question.
  • “What are the problems, and how could they be reduced?”
  • make sure you answer all parts of the questions
  • not going to mention every single problem and every single solution, so you just decide what you think are the most important.
  • two approaches inside that body. You could either mention some of the problems, which have arisen from the topic, and you might choose a problem for one paragraph and then a second problem for a second paragraph, depends how many problems you want to talk about. And then in the next couple of paragraphs, you might offer a solution in paragraph 3 for the problem in paragraph 1 and then another solution in paragraph 4 for the problem in paragraph 2. Another approach is that you could mention one problem and then offer the solution in the same paragraph. That makes your writing more complex because you just have to understand how to link it and how to put the ideas together.

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