Improve your IELTS Writing Skills is a complete preparation course for the Academic Writing paper of the International English Language Testing System. Through targeted practice, it develops skills and language to help you achieve a higher IELTS score in the Academic Writing paper. | IMPROVE YOUR I E LT S Writing Skills Sam McCarter Norman Whitby Improve your I ELTS Writing Skills Sam McCarter Norman Whitby MACMILLAN Introduction page 4 Topic Task 1 Task 2 Unit 1 page 6 Change and consequences Describing trends Related verbs and nouns Understanding data Understanding questions Expressing solutions Linking phrases Using trigger words Unit 2 page 14 The importance of the past Comparing information Adverbs in comparisons Comparing and contrasting Using it they this these Planning essays Developing ideas Unit 3 page 22 Machines cycles and processes The passive Sequencing Using which to organize information Expressing result and purpose Unit 4 page 30 Education General and specific statements Comparing information Describing proportions Avoiding overgeneralization Developing reasons Unit 5 page 38 Youth Describing changes Describing locations Developing and justifying opinions Writing introductions Unit 6 page 46 Culture Concluding statements Concession 1 Expressing advantages and disadvantages Advantage and disadvantage vocabulary Concession 2 Unit 7 page 54 Arts and sciences Adverbs Using adverbs to evaluate data Avoiding irrelevance Discussing other people s opinion Hypothesizing Unit 8 page 62 Nature Making predictions Factual accuracy Articles Writing conclusions Unit 9 page 70 Health Varying vocabulary Checking spelling Organizing words Verb-subject agreement Unit 10 page 78 Individual and society Word order Linking using with Task 1 revision Paragraph structure Relevant and irrelevant information Task 2 revision Sample answers page 86 Key page 96
