aubry how's it going great how are you i'm so good i just got confirmation um that my booking has
been approved for a teardrop trailer for this summer do you know what a drop trailer is yes
they're the cutest little trailers my sister had one for a while it was a little stamp and it was
adorable oh my god they're so cute they're so cute you guys so they're shaped if you're watching this
on youtube ielts energy tv you can see we're like doing the shape it's like shaped like a teardrop
and the main cabin is a bed like a queen-size bed right that takes up the whole space and then you
open up the back of it and all of these pieces like slide out and become a kitchen and then on
the one we're renting because it's like new and it's like super nice um there's an awning there's
so much great vocabulary today yes there's an awning built into the top and you roll it out
and the awning expands and so like once you set up and you have the kitchen popped out you
have the awning rolled out it becomes a whole like camping space it's like a transformer totally yeah
it's like a power ranger no transformer is better
anyway i'm so excited you guys i've been trying to rent something for our road trip this summer for
like a month and i finally got it so i'm stoked another cool thing about this is when you pull
up to your campsite you can just put your stuff in there lock it up unhitch it from the car and
drive away and not worry about your valuables because today we're talking about crime and we
don't want you guys to get your stuff stolen there's the segue that was an amazing segue right
thank you steal stuff out of jessica's trailer and let's talk about crime and let's talk about crime
all right guys so crime is one of those ielts hot topics if you guys look for lists of task
two questions lists of ielts topics list of part three questions you guys are gonna see crime on
there it's in every ielts textbook and it's weird because it's like it's not something we
really talk about a lot anymore but it's still on ielts and i have been administering
mock speaking tests where a question will be something about like you know
is is our city safe and if the student feels like their city is very safe often i find they
haven't really thought about this much yeah so there might be a follow-up question about
how can dangerous cities be made safer and they're kind of like um that's a really good point yeah
i mean i think about totally um i know last episode we were talking about like you guys are
adults with a life of experience you have all the ideas you need for writing task two and today i'm
going back on that a little bit because you're so right if we only think about our own worlds that's
not gonna be enough for all the ielts topics um that's really true so why here's a question
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um lesson about writing task to crime um we came up with this a little while ago aubrey and i
the spaghetti method guys the spaghetti method gets you a five on writing okay um students
use the spaghetti method in two ways one for ideas and one for vocab so if this is a topic
that you don't have a lot to say about um you haven't read about right you're not prepared for
then you're gonna use the spaghetti method you're just gonna throw out ideas maybe they're connected
maybe they're not you're definitely not gonna support them like we talked about
yesterday so that lowers your score and it's just throwing ideas out there and seeing what sticks
so this is this is named sure why we're calling it the spaghetti mess i was just gonna say that
spaghetti right they're noodles they're pretty sticky and if you just take a handful of it
and chuck it at the wall it's probably gonna stick don't do that that would be very messy
don't do that don't throw noodles at the wall you guys um and the other way
students use this which lowers their vocabulary score to a five or lower possibly is um
trying out words they are not sure of and trying to be too fancy right so you're just like
we see students do this all the time and speaking and writing it's like you're so worried about
vocabulary that you're only thinking about vocab not logic not like making sense and you're just
like forcing yourself to use all these words and your communication becomes very confusing okay so
don't take risks don't force yourself to be fancy it's not going to make sense yes exactly right if
you're using high-level vocabulary at the expense of your sentences making sense all of your scores
are coming down if the examiner doesn't understand your ideas and your supporting details it would
be much preferable for you to use words that you understand in context simpler so that the examiner
understands your details sees that they're supported and there you're getting higher scores
you know like we've had students that get really high writing scores 7 7.5 8 8.5 on writing and in
our personal coach classes with these students um i've noticed that when if they are worried
about vocab right then it's always something like i don't think my vocab is very good in this essay
i can't wait to get your feedback you know and i read through their essay and i'm like you got an
eight for vocab this is amazing and they're like what and they're always surprised because they are
only using vocabulary that they're sure of and so to their minds it's like more simple you know what
i mean because these are words they already know they're not forcing any crazy words but because
they have a handful we'll say two handfuls of amazing words that they use 100 correct um and
zero inaccuracies zero inappropriacies that's what gets you a high vocab score it doesn't have to be
every single word is amazing no you just need to use some words perfectly and then everything else
has to be precise you know what i mean exactly yes so that your ideas make sense the vocab you
are using yes you will want to have some band eight some band nine words but this doesn't mean
really complicated words that you don't really understand and no one you know understands no
that's not what you're looking for you're looking for ways of saying words that are a little more
impressive because not every student uses them but you understand what they mean you can use them in
context in a high level way not in a way that is complicating and confusing the ideas in your essay
exactly exactly guys so all of those reasons uh don't use the spaghetti method when you're
trying to improve your vocab score um but before we finish up today guys we want to
give you the opposite of the spaghetti method for a very real task 2 question about crime
so again spaghetti method about ideas is just throwing out ideas they're not connected they're
not supported right five for task if not lower okay so we're going to show you the opposite
of that how do we increase that score how do we expand on our ideas like we talked about yesterday
in a way the examiner wants and how do we make sure that these ideas are connected to the topic
so before we get to that paragraph aubrey what is the question that we're trying to answer
so we're going to take a question asking if crime rates can be changed and jessica give
us a high level body paragraph that would answer this question okay so um this is a very tricky
question to stay on topic okay so that's why guys when you are choosing your ideas try to make them
as simple and direct as possible again this is the opposite of the spaghetti method we are only
sticking to hopefully simple and clear ideas so we want to directly answer that question first
right we say i believe that crime rates cannot be changed right so remember directly directly
answer that question first don't get fancy in the topic sentence and the reason don't get fancy use
simple vocab use simple sentence structures and then when you support it that get get it
get a little fancy you know all right the um okay uh i believe that crime rates cannot be changed
one chief reason is that a large amount of crimes are due to individuals personalities at birth
for instance research has been done on the brains of deceased murderers and it has been
found that their neural networks are literally different they lack empathy and the ability
to interact healthily with others ted buddy bundy and charles manson are examples of this
so like um yeah guys this is of course for my own weird brain who i like to read about
true crime and watch all the true crime um but it's it's a tough topic yeah definitely
right and like you said it's really tricky to stay on topic because you have likely seen
multiple questions about crime and they're all a little different yeah we've seen another question
that says some believe that more action should be taken to prevent crime while others feel
that crime is being tackled effectively discuss both sides this is a different question right
yeah so if you start answering whether crime rates can be changed or not you're going off
topic so with this topic a topic like this that is common on ielts and common on practice questions
read the topic carefully to make sure that your ideas are directly answering that question
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wise all right aubry good stuff today thanks for hanging out yeah i'll see you next time bye
you