it's Thérèse here with IELTS ENGLISH GURUS and today we're looking at writing tasks to
the essay part of your exam and in this video i'll cover the technique to help you with main body
paragraphs one and two and i can guarantee that this technique is definitely going to help you
to improve your balance score for coherence cohesion and task response so please watch the
video until the end so that you don't miss out on important details to help with those points we'll
be looking at a problem solution essay but in fact this technique will help you for three types
of ielts essays that's advantages disadvantages problem solution and also double question essay
what exactly is a double question i say anyway a double question essay is an essay with two
questions so for example with problem solution you have to describe the problem or the causes
of something and then the solution in advantages disadvantages you describe the advantages and the
disadvantages and in double question you need to devote a paragraph to the first question and
then the second paragraph to the second question that is presented in the essay title in the video
i'm going to speak about the method how you can break this down in detail and then we'll look at
a problem solution essay that my student brought to me so we can make sure that you're addressing
it very coherently you have your introduction main body paragraph 1 main body paragraph 2
conclusion in the introduction we're going to bring up the problem and possible solutions
in main body paragraph 1 you present a topic sentence that will refer to the general problems
and then go into detail and then explain it with an example and then paragraph two we're
gonna present the solutions with the general topic sentence and then we're gonna explain
two solutions with an explanation and examples so let's get started so what is the purpose of the
main body paragraph it's to present your position related to the question to explain your ideas and
to support your ideas with examples so that's what an essay is it's a development of argument
so it's really necessary to support your idea because if you don't have an example then you
don't have an argument so we're going to look now at this title many working people get little or no
exercise either during the working day or in their free time and have health problems as a result
why do many working people not get enough exercise what can be done about this problem so this is a
problem solution essay or what we call cause and solution so main body paragraph one will cover the
two causes and main body paragraph two will cover the two solutions so that's how this breaks down
if we break it down even further sentence one will be our topic sentence we present the main
ideas one and two in general so you're not just presenting the first cause you're presenting
the causes in general in the topic sentence in paragraph one then in sentence two you explain
your main idea sentence three and four you support your main idea with an example now sentence five
you move on to your main idea two this will be cause two sentence six support explain your idea
with an example and then you have your ending sentence so let's put it in writing
so topic sentence is there are two reasons why a lot of working people have limited
physical activity so the topic sentence refers to the reasons plural and it's a general
referral to the causes now we're going to explain cause number one
firstly more professionals now work in sedentary jobs let's explain that developments in technology
have led to less physical active work to illustrate a 2020 census of the population
of india show that the majority of professional workers spend seven to eight hours of the working
day sitting at a desk so here we have explanation an example cause number two
secondly many working people watch tv or play on devices after work instead of practicing sport
now we explain and example as many professionals are distracted by the conveniences of technology
they are less inclined to become physically active in fact a survey from the magazine health today
reported that only 90 of gym members in europe never used the sports facilities and then
ending sentence to wrap up overall a sedentary and technological lifestyle has resulted in less
exercise for more working people so do you see how that was broken down it's very structured
topic sentence you have cause one explain example cause 2 explain example ending sentence so this
is the good structure to follow and as you can see it's very easy to write the essay if you have that
structure in mind main body paragraph two will follow the same structure exactly topic sentence
we're going to present solutions one and two we're going to explain example
and then we'll have an ending sentence at the end of the two solutions let's look in
writing topic sentence there are two effective solutions to the problem of the lack of exercise
among working people so it's a general topic sentence introducing two solutions number one one
way to deal with a lack of physical activity is to provide opportunities for exercise during the day
for professionals in their place of work now i explain this with example in this way workers
can break up their day with moments of sport and fitness practice for example japanese companies
allow their employees to practice martial arts for one hour before their working day begins
solution two a second solution to boost exercise for workers is to encourage the use of health apps
on smartphones explain studies have shown that these applications encourage workers
to exercise regularly and keep track of their heart rate stamina and other fitness levels
so the example here is the studies an ending sentence in general when these solutions are
applied in society more working people increase their rate of physical activity and boost their
overall health i've followed the same structure here again the topic sentence the solutions and
breaking them down into examples and explanations just to recap everyone in main body paragraph one
you have your topic sentence with your main ideas the problems or causes introduced
then you explain main idea one support with example and then topic sentence main idea two
explain and support with example main body paragraph two the same idea you're presenting
the solutions in general then explain the first solution example second solution
explain example so that's the structure that you can use for any double idea essay whether
it's disadvantages and advantages problem solution or double question