Each unit also contains a resource of useful phrases and vocabulary to use in each writing task. Over the course of Improve your IELTS Writing Skills, you will encounter a wide range of ideas to ensure that you are not lost for words when you get to the real test. | Task 2 Developing and justifying opinions Look at the pictures and the text. Answer the questions below. a Which person do you agree with b Do you agree with the justification for each person s opinion c Is this situation the same all over the world 2 Read the following Task 2 question then answer questions a-b. Employers should pay young people the same salary as older colleagues doing the same job. To what extent do you agree or disagree a Do you have to strongly agree or disagree Is is possible to take a neutral view b Rewrite the statement in your own words. Begin with Young employees . 3 Read a-g taken from an answer to the question in 2. Match each sentence or part-sentence with the correct function from the list. The first one has been done for you. Contradiction Explanation Result Example Reason x 2 Opinion statement a Many people believe that workers should be paid according to age rather than merit. b However I feel that they should be paid according to results. . c Take for example someone in their twenties working in a financial company. . d They deserve to receive the same salary . . e . because they are doing the same work. . f Moreover young people nowadays are often faster at doing things than their older work colleagues . . g . which compensates for lack of experience. . 42 id unit 5 Youth ie 4 Underline the linking phrases in 3 which indicate the functions you chose. 5 Using the sentences in 3 as a model write a paragraph expressing your own opinion in response to the question in 2. Use appropriate linking phrases. 6 Read the Task 2 question and the model answer below. For each of 1-6 two options are possible and one is incorrect. Delete the incorrect option. Some people feel that young people face more pressures today than the equivalent age groups did in previous generations. Others think that they have a much easier life than their parents did. What is your opinion or n Model text Life- for the- young in today s world is in some ways certainly
