All right, question analysis.
Practice five.
Let's keep going.
Keep working at it.
Keep progressing.
Because if you get better at this, you're going to score better.
Again, we have three questions.
Our first question in red.
Nowadays, there is more and more competition between older and younger people for the same job.
What problems does this create?
How can it be solved?
Question two In blue some people argue that companies and private individuals, rather than governments,
should pay to clean up the pollution they produced.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Question three Nowadays, people in most countries decide to have children much later in life.
Why do they do so?
Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages?
OC Pause the lecture, take a couple of minutes and do a full analysis for each question.
All right.
Our our first question in red.
The general topic is about employment and jobs.
That's the general macro topic.
Our restrictive language is old and young, competing for the same job.
Our direction, words, problems and solutions.
What problems does this create?
What solutions?
This has two parts.
Our middle question in blue.
General topic pollution could be the environment.
But general topic pollution.
The restrictive limiting language.
Company and private responsibility, not government.
Our direction.
Words are to what extent of agreements you have.
To what extent you agree or disagree?
This can have 1 to 2 parts determining in what way you talk about it.
So this is a to what extent question you could 100% agree.
Then you will have one part.
You can 100% disagree, then you will have two parts or you can mainly agree in somewhat disagree.
There are different ways of approaching it.
Maybe you will really agree the companies should have more responsibility than governments.
And then you may only slightly agree that private individuals should have responsibility rather than
governments.
To what extent?
Third question general topic is children.
Restrictive language.
Having them later in life.
Direction, words, why?
And also more and more advantages than disadvantages.
Do the advantages outweigh two parts?
How do students mess up these questions?
For our first one in red.
The main way the students fail is by talking about or writing about causes.
This essay question is not about the causes of why there is competition.
It's also not about why young people are better at certain jobs or vice versa.
In blue.
Not discussing companies and private individuals will result in a lower score.
You can't only talk about companies and not talk about private individuals.
To what extent also failing to express to what extent you agree or disagree?
For our final question, discussing children in any context outside of why people have them later in
life.
Also addressing only one part of the question or not focusing on the word outweigh.
You're not talking about these are the advantages.
These are the disadvantages.
Outweigh.
Okay, everybody, let's move forward to question analysis class practice six.
Let's keep up the pace.
Let's keep up the motivation.
We have three questions.
First question in red.
Human activities have negative effect on plant and animal species.
Some people think is too late to do anything about this problem.
Others believe that effective measures can still be taken to improve this situation.
Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Second question in blue today, more and more full time university students spend a lot of time on other
activities rather rather than time studying.
Some people think it is essential for students to be involved in other activities.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Third question Online shopping is significantly increasing.
What effects does this have?
What are the disadvantages and what are the job opportunities?
Stop the lecture.
Take a couple of minutes and do a full analysis.
Okay.
For our first one, the general essay topic is about plants and animals.
It's also possible you can have the general essay topic about human activities.
It doesn't matter.
The restrictive language doesn't change negative effects on plants and animals from human actions.
That's the restrictive language.
Our direction words are to discuss both.
Views and give your opinion.
Our second question.
The general essay topic is about university school activities, or maybe even university is our general
topic.
Our limiting language is whether it's critical that students participate in outside activities, whether
it's critical that they participate in outside activities, and then our direction words are to what
extent?
To what extent do you believe this?
To what extent?
You may not fully agree.
You may like, 75% agree, 25% disagree.
You have to make sure that you express that in your writing.
For our third question, the general topic is online shopping.
The restrictive or limiting language deals with increasing?
That is increasing.
You have three parts here the effects, disadvantages and jobs created.
Now, some people may look at it and say, hey.
Aren't the disadvantages the effects?
No, not necessarily.
First they ask you about effects.
Just what are the effects?
Then they're asking you to tell.
Talk about disadvantages.
How do students mess up the question for our first one?
Not understanding the reference of this problem.
In this situation that we're talking about, we're talking about negative effects of human activities
on plants and animals.
Also do not talk about positive effects.
We're not talking about positive effects and finally, not discussing plants and animals.
For our middle question, if you discuss spending time with anything but activities, you will get a
lower score.
Changing this into a discuss both sides question.
You will get a lower score.
It's not a discuss both sides question.
You have to talk about to what extent you agree or disagree is not a balanced discussion and then also
failing to show subject specific vocabulary around the word activities.
This question opens it up for you to be able to show the extent and range of your vocabulary.
For number three, changing the question or disputing that online shopping is significantly increasing.
They're telling you that it is.
You're not going to write about it and say, I disagree that it's increasing.
Also, address all three parts of the question.
Okay.
Question Analysis class practice seven.
We have three questions in front of us.
First one in red.
In the modern world, the image is becoming a more powerful way of communicating than the written word.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Question Too many people today communicate using mobile phones and computers, and this has affected
their need to meet face to face.
Do the advantages advantages of this development outweigh its disadvantages?
Give reasons for your answer and include relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.
Question three Many cities are replacing cars with bicycles.
What are the reasons for this?
Which do you think is better?
OC.
Stop the lecture.
Take a couple of minutes and do a full question analysis for all three of these questions.
So for our first one in red, the general topic is about communication.
The restrictive language is about images being more powerful than words.
Our direction.
Words are again.
To what extent?
For our second question, the general topic is phone computer communication.
Our limiting language is affecting the need for face to face.
Our direction words are advantages over disadvantages.
And then our general essay topic for the third one, bicycles.
Our restrictive language.
Bicycles being bicycles.
Replacing cars.
Our direction.
Words.
Why?
Which is better?
Two parts here.
For the first question, not restricting the question to the words modern world.
We're not talking about the past.
We're not talking about the future, discussing something outside of communication.
Outside of communication.
Or discussing something outside of the written word.
We're not talking about the spoken word
for the second one.
Discussing why mobile communication is better than face to face would not be a proper response.
That's not what we're talking about.
All right.
Also, keep in mind about outweigh and finally, look at this question in blue.
It says, include relevant examples from your knowledge and experience.
If you don't include relevant examples, then your answer will be incomplete.
Now what?
You don't don't make up studies and all that kind of stuff.
That's not what they're talking about.
A study in 1960 show Don't Make Up Stuff.
Now for the third question.
You're not supposed to agree with the stated fact that cities are replacing cars with bikes.
That's a stated fact.
Right.
Restrict yourself to the reasons and also make a choice about which do you think is better?
Is it better to replace them, replace cars with bicycles or not?
Which is better?
OC and finally, class practice eight.
We have three questions in front of us.
Question one in red.
Some people believe that nowadays we have too many choices.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Question two Living in a country where you have to speak a foreign language can cause serious social
problems as well as practical problems.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Question three Nowadays, more and more people read news on the Internet.
Nevertheless, newspapers will remain an important source of news and information for the majority of
people.
Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
All right.
Pause the lecture.
Take a couple of minutes and do a full question analysis.
So for question one, our general topic choices.
Choices.
What's the limitation to many today?
Ask yourself, what do the words too many?
What does that mean to many?
Direction?
To what extent?
One or two parts.
In blue.
General topic foreign language restriction resulting in social and practical problems.
We don't talk about why it's good to learn a foreign language or the effects of learning a foreign language.
We're talking about resulting in social and practical problems having to speak a foreign language.
Our instruction direction words are to what extent?
And we have two parts.
And for our last one, the general essay topic newspapers restriction still important source for majority
of people.
Instruction words.
Agree or disagree?
One part.
For our first question.
Students confuse the meaning of too many.
Too many has a negative context, not a positive context.
It only has a negative context for our middle question in blue.
Students make a mistake by not understanding the word practical problems.
Right.
Not understanding practical problems, not using subject specific vocabulary related to practical problems.
Not keeping things in the context of speaking a foreign language.
And for our final question, the biggest error occurs by failing to realize the first sentence is about
background information is not the question is just background information.
You're not talking about why more people read news on the Internet.
That's not what the question is about.
Right.
Stay focused on the question.
Will newspapers remain an important source for a majority?
Look at the word majority of people.
Majority.
So, you know, you have to be able to stay focused and within within the context of the question.
All right.
So thank you so much for joining me today in this lecture.
I really hope you understand the concept of question analysis so much better.
It is it's an important concept that you really handle before you start writing is equally important
to outlining.
Outlining is critical.
And we'll be talking about that in the upcoming lectures.
Have a great day and I'll talk to you soon.