9 band 9 verbs for IELTS writing task hi my name is Ben Worthington in this tutorial we
are going to look at 9 band 9 verbs you can use in your IELTS writing task today this
tutorial is divided into 3 parts first, we look at the verbs then I will explain why
they are band 9 this is quite interesting this useful to help you advance with your
IELTS writing thirdly, we look at examples of these verbs in IELTS sentences in IELTS
essays and this is really valuable because unless you get the context of the verbs then
you could be making a very serious mistake which is forcing the verb which I’ll go
into in more detail in a minute of 9 band 9 verbs we have hinder, weaken, translate,
intensify, debate conceive, break, delegate, and lobby now some of these verbs have different
meanings for example I can say break as in I broke my arm yesterday and that's probably
around A2 or band 4 or 5 level now if I were to say that the media broke the story yesterday
then in that context with that usage then it's a C2 interestingly with these 9 verbs
the first four of them are extremely valuable for 3 types of IELTS task 2 questions the
3 types of questions are discuss both views give your opinion and advantages and disadvantages
and the reason why these verbs are useful are because they lend themselves very naturally
to these types of situations so hinder is to limit the abilities so if we’re discussing
the disadvantages we can say that new government regulations for road safety drastically hinder
the effectiveness of logistics transport companies for example can you see or new government
regulations drastically weakened the effectiveness of logistics companies so just random examples
there but they lend themselves very useful for these types of essays the other one, translate,
is very useful because it's quite versatile we can say government resistance for new regulations
translates into a lack of enthusiasm and ultimately a lack of protection for the environment so
translate is very versatile we can use it in lots of different essays now the other
ones have to be used with more caution except conceive conceive, we could definitely use
when we're saying discussing both views when it's give your opinion because conceive is
imagine and I'll give you examples about how we can use these verbs in IELTS sentences
in a second how do I know that these are band 9 and this is really interesting because there’s
no other IELTS tutor that I know of who is doing this and it is quite easy I think as
you probably know IELTS is owned by 3 organizations it's owned by the IDP, British Council, and
Cambridge English language assessment those 3 organizations Cambridge English language
assessments are the experts who decide about the language criteria they deal with all the
language aspects of the test not all but pretty much most of it and these IELTS band scores
correspond to the common European framework for reference which is basically the European
Union's version of the band scores except they don't go from band 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9 they go from A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 now as you can see from the chart a C2 correlates
directly to a band 9 I mean not directly but there is a correlation there now if we click
on the verbs that I told you before and if we click using the Cambridge English language
dictionary remember this is the organization responsible for the criteria of the exams
or partly responsible for the criteria we find that the verbs that I give you the verbs
that I gave you correspond to certain levels here we go let's click on hinder I’ve got
it linked into the Cambridge dictionary we go there and what would you see look C2 C2
level and as I said before it's to limit the ability of somebody to do something you can
see that C2 look at that C2 to intensify to become greater more serious more extreme and
this is the case with all of them I think most of them are C2 now don't be confused
here it says B1 but the meaning that I was giving you okay is C2 to change something
into a new form okay so all of these are C2 or at the very very worst C1 okay so conceive
pretty certain like as a verb C2 debate now debate as a noun is B2 debate as a verb discuss
in a formal way C2 you see hinder okay hinder limit the ability of something abandoning
dated school buses would most likely hinder any efforts to improve road safety around
schools the main reason is that if each parent brings their own child the traffic around
schools would be horrendous so we can see here it's used correctly and it sounds very
natural and likewise disregarding a detailed list of activities for a free day would most
likely hinder any efforts to obtain the full potential of the said free day now in both
cases it sounds natural we could use these in the body paragraph we could easily use
them in the middle or the beginning because it would be a strong start to the body paragraph
but nevertheless, they're still useful and they're still valid it depends on your writing
style I think it would be good actually to use these at the beginning of the body paragraph
in a second in a minute I'll give you an example of a bad example I'll give you an example
of a bad sentence to use at the beginning of your body paragraph let's have a look at
the next one weaken cause something to be less strong hopefully you'd have spotted the
similarity between this sentence and this one okay so in this case they are interchangeable
but in this one it's not interchangeable at all and it's as I've noted here it's grammatically
perfect but it sounds forced okay so this one same as before abandoning dated school
buses would most likely weaken any efforts to improve road safety around schools the
main reason is that if each parent brings their own child the traffic around schools
would be horrendous so exactly the same as before here disregarding a detailed list of
activities for free day would most likely weaken any efforts to obtain the full potential
of the said free day weaken any efforts why does it sound unnatural because there is not
a strong force or movement or group of people or any effort for that matter of people like
actively promoting that do not make plans for free days okay so this is why it sounds
forced okay and the way you start to spot verbs or words that are forced into sentences
is by improving your language skills so it almost becomes natural that something sounds
off or that it sounds unnatural and this is a long process to get to that ability however
if you're writing for IELTS if you can find more lists and more examples then it's going
to speed up your learning curve or it’s going to speed up your advancement or your
learning regarding academic writing it's going to speed it up considerably let's have a look
at translate abandoning dated school buses would most likely translate into congested
and dangerous roads around the school furthermore the air quality could only worsen translate
yeah it's quite straightforward this is very useful to have this verb the reason is it’s
because it's quite versatile i.e. you could use it in a lot of different essays the other
ones but these ones you could probably use in the discuss both views and your opinion
and advantages and disadvantages quite easily whereas this one you could use in most essays
okay because it's basically saying this means this which is an essential part of your paragraph
because it's you developing your argument and your position now second example disregarding
a detailed list of activities for a free day would most likely translate into a sloppily
organized day replete of spontaneous distractions and unforeseen costs this is writing rather
aggressively okay because there's no doubt in the reader’s mind after reading this
about my position on this issue and the issue basically was you know should you plan your
day or should you leave it to be spontaneous without planning and replete by the way is
a very good word it means full of spontaneous distractions okay a day full of spontaneous
distractions and unforeseen costs let's move on intensify this is my favorite so abandoning
dated school buses would most likely intensify any road safety or pollution issues the school
district might already be facing so here it just makes it to become stronger it intensifies
these issues okay now once again I can't use intensify because there's no real sort of
like issue around unplanning or not planning a day okay so once again this is why the list
is very useful if you want to start using these and also examples and as I said before
on the online course there are lots of lists and examples to help speed up the learning
process to help you to get you writing better you’re going to improve your writing faster
let's go debate to discuss in a formal way those who debate in favor of abandoning school
transport may have forgotten important issues such as air quality, road safety, and dual
income families and you see so in this way I've used it more as argue in favor of okay
and once let's see this one again not really suitable because there's no real debate here
yes there is no -- you cannot imagine two groups of people arguing whereas in this case
you could easily imagine a group of parents arguing with another group of parents saying
bring back school buses no each to their own everyone's got their own way of transporting
of transport so this is why debate well this is why some verbs are more suitable or more
useful than other ones here well as you saw before we could definitely use hinder, translate
we can but we could definitely use some of the others for the free activities essays
now final one conceive here this is just let me share a useful spelling rule and that's
‘I before E except after C’ you probably know that already anyway it is difficult to
conceive any benefits of abandoning school transport okay I won't go into it anymore
into more detail but here what I wanted to say is that two things this is a useful word
because we're talking about opinions we're talking about the advantages and disadvantages
or we're talking about discussing both views so here it’s quite versatile we can conceive
of the views of that question we can conceive both views can you see how it's much more
versatile than some of the other ones so conceive is definitely useful and as we saw before
this is C2 level which equates to band 9 second point if we were starting the body paragraph
like this it is it would be terrible -- well not terrible but it's just not good form and
the reason why is because it creates reader strain I’m going a bit off-topic now but
it's useful it creates reader strain because I have to wait until the middle of the sentence
until I find out what this object pronoun refers to this is why I put those dots and
this is why this sentence we couldn't use it as the topic sentence to introduce the
body paragraph or to start the body paragraph we would use the ‘it ‘in the middle of
the or would use ‘it’ later on in the body paragraph when it's clear what the ‘it’
refers to and it would be useful to use ‘it’ because it would improve our cohesion and
coherence score because we don't have to keep repeating the issue that we're talking about
we can just refer to it as ‘it’ so this is why if we do start a sentence with an object
pronoun it's better when it's crystal clear what that object pronoun is referring to next
one here it is difficult to conceive any benefits to planning a valuable free day perhaps a
more optimized schedule but the stress of okay so here it's quite versatile again so
this is why it's quite useful there we go 9 band 9 verbs for your IELTS writing task
now my recommendation is that you start using these words in your IELTS essay use them today
get familiar with these words write out some example sentences and get some feedback if
you do want some feedback have a look at ieltspodcast.com we've got an essay correction service there
it's 24 hours so you can improve fast and personally I think the best way to improve
is by getting feedback and getting guidance now there are 3 things I want you to do before
you stop watching this video number 1 in the comments section can you write out a sentence
with one of the verbs and I'll try and give you feedback on that sentence I’ll try and
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there you might as well check out the online course and the essay correction service thank
you for watching and have a great day and good luck with your IELTS preparation