Now that you have completed the aisles, task one section of our course is now time to move into its
task, to which is a standard essay.
In this lecture I'm going to provide you the basic information of Ihls task too.
So let's get started.
First of all, it's very important for you to understand what we're going to cover in this section of
our course.
We're going to start off with an introduction, which is what you're listening to right now.
Afterwards, we're going to really get into a scoring analysis.
This is a really, really important part of this course section.
Many students want to know, how can I move my score from a five to a 7.5 or really a five to a 6.5?
A 7 to 8 and eight?
Two and nine.
In the scoring analysis.
I'm going to tell you exactly how to do that.
After the scoring analysis, we'll get into the question analysis.
In this lecture, we're going to really explain to you how to understand a question properly.
When you're answering the question, what are all of the elements that you need to address?
This is going to really help you with getting a really high task achievement task development score.
And then we're going to get into outlining essay questions, thesis statements, writing a complete
introduction, writing topic sentences, writing body paragraphs, conclusions.
And then you're going to get some live timed essay examples where I'm going to be writing an essay in
real time so you can see how it's all put together.
So for the elite exam, there are two question types that you have for a task.
Number one, if you're doing the academic exam is going to be a chart or a report or possibly a map
or a process.
If you're doing the general exam, you're going to have to write a letter and that could be a formal
or informal type of letter.
Now, task number two is the standard essay, and that's what we're getting into here.
The standard essay, this is where you have to prove your ability to write the standard essay that they
teach in almost every ESL school around the world.
You have to write in a way that's measured up to the standards that the examiners expect when giving
a student a score of seven plus.
So what is a standard English based essay?
Let's just start with the foundation.
What is a standard essay?
It's a piece of writing that is used to convince someone of a position that you're going to take.
You must use a certain level of reasoning and evidence to score very, very well in order for the reader
to be convinced.
You have to follow a certain logical pattern.
There's certain components that you must include when writing a standard English based essay.
Now, of course, I'm going to tell you what those components are, and I'm going to give you examples
of each of those components.
The examiner wants you to write a 4 to 5 paragraph essay.
So there are many, many types of questions on the eye exam, many, many types of questions, and they
all revolve around the same theme of argumentation.
They're just different ways of phrasing it or stating it.
But for every single question, you're giving your opinion.
So.
Of course, you have the agree or disagree question.
And sometimes this is phrased as just a direct agree or disagree, and then at other times it will be.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Then we have a discuss both sides question opinion questions, two questions embedded.
That means that when you have the essay question, they'll have two separate questions within it.
They may ask you whether something is positive or negative as one question.
And then in another question, they will they will next to that question or right after that question,
they'll have a separate question that is asking something different.
Then you have a preference question where you have to choose one.
Out of a list.
Or you may have a pair choice where you have to choose between two.
And also be aware that it's possible to have a question where you have to choose from three or four
items.
That was something that they used to do on the exam a long time ago.
But be aware because anything they've done in the past, they can bring up again.
Then we have the advantage disadvantage question and that could be worded many different ways.
It can just be discussed.
The advantages and disadvantages, it can be discussed the advantages and disadvantages and give your
opinion.
Or it could be compare the advantages and disadvantages.
Then we have the cost solution question or problem solution question.
So these are all of the different question types that you could possibly have to address on the exam.
Now, the good thing for you is that I teach one method, one strategy to address all of the questions.
There's no separate writing strategy or writing structure for a problem solution question.
They all are going to use the same structure, the same strategy.
All right.
So there's something that I really want you to understand about essay writing.
And that's any essay.
Any standard essay is basically written like an inverted pyramid.
And that's a very important concept to understand when you're trying to mentally imagine what an essay
should be written like.
So when you look at an essay from the overall global perspective of an essay, just look at the shape
of how it's written mentally, because on paper it looks like the same shape, but really it's not.
The introduction is more general.
So it's like the wide base of the pyramid.
And then when you get to the body paragraphs, it narrows down a little bit more.
It narrows down just a little bit more.
And then when you finally get to the conclusion, it all comes down to a point.
When you look at the introduction and the body paragraphs is the exact same inverted pyramid shape.
With an introduction, you start off with a general statement related to the topic.
Then you move down and you narrow it into the specific question that's being asked.
And then you wrap things up with a thesis statement.
With a body paragraph is the exact same inverted pyramid style of writing.
You start off with the topic sentence and then it focuses down into the details and then a more specific
example or explanation of the detail.
And then in my wrap up with a concluding sentence for that paragraph and then for the overall essay,
of course, you conclude with a a overall conclusion for the essay itself, but that's really what essay
writing is.
And so you have to think about that when you're looking at your introduction.
Is your introduction being written like an inverted pyramid?
Are your body paragraphs being written like an inverted pyramid?
That's what creates the type of writing.
The score is very well.
So here's our 35 minute six step writing strategy.
We have six easy steps to follow for you to be able to write the type of essay that's going to score
very well.
Number one, you have 2 minutes to analyze the question.
This is a critical step, a very important step.
This makes sure that you're going to answer all the parts of the question and that you answer it accurately.
Number two, outline the question after you understand what you have to write because you've analyzed
the question.
Now it's time to do an outline.
And I need for you to be able to do your outline in less than 5 minutes.
Then we're going to move to step number three, writing the introduction.
The introduction should be written in 5 minutes.
There are three parts to it.
Introduction, the general idea, paraphrasing the question and then your thesis statement.
Then we have steps four and five.
Which are your body paragraphs?
Each body paragraph.
You have 10 minutes to write each body paragraph.
And then finally, we're going to wrap things up with the conclusion which involves your restating your
thesis statement and making any possible future recommendation for the reader.
So.
These six steps encompass what I want you to do in terms of your writing process itself.
Now, you're going to hear me later on talk about in terms of the introduction and the body paragraphs,
that it is possible for you to write your body paragraphs before you write the introduction.
Some people like to do it that way because really the body paragraphs are the or the heart of the score.
That's where most of your points come from the body paragraphs themselves.
Also, by writing the body paragraphs first, some people feel like they'll have a better understanding
of their essay and they can write the introduction faster.
So we'll talk about that a little bit later on.
But these are our six foundational steps to writing a 35 minute essay.
And I always want you writing in 35 minutes.
I know.
I know that you basically have 40 minutes to do it.
But if you finish in 35 minutes, that's going to give you 5 minutes to go ahead and really edit and
improve your essay.
What happens to a lot of students is they write right up to the 40 minute mark and then they have no
time for improving the essay.
I want you to have five strong minutes to really improve and edit that essay.
Take some of those simple sentences and form compound sentences.
Include an adjective clause.
Find synonyms for some of your vocabulary.
You need time to do that.
Correct mistakes.
Right.
You need that extra 5 minutes.
All right.
Thank you very much.
This completes part number one of the introduction.
Coming up next, we will complete the introduction with part number two.
And then we're going to go ahead and move forward with how to outline essay questions.
Thanks a lot.
I'll talk to you soon.