before you start writing your c1
advanced essay you need to plan and this
is because if you don't plan then you
might not include everything that you
need to include to score the highest
marks possible but how does one plan
their c1 advanced essay maybe you
already know how to plan your c1
advanced essay but maybe you don't and
if you don't this video is for you my
name is toby this is smash english and
here is everything that you need to know
about planning your essay for the
seaworld advanced cambridge exam
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firstly if you have not seen my video
about how to structure a c1 advanced
essay then please watch it why because
you can't plan something if you don't
know the structure so because we have
watched that video we can now start
planning our c1 advanced essay before we
even read the question we know how to
structure our essay because we've all
seen toby's fantastic video about
structuring essays we need an
introduction we need one paragraph
introducing each prompt then paragraph
four should be comparing and contrasting
these prompts in relation to the
question obviously and then paragraph
five should be a conclusion that will
summarize and synthesize everything and
then finally give our opinion yes yes
the first thing that we must do when
planning our essay is to read the
question obviously but you should read
the question and try to understand four
different things number
one
what is the topic of the essay number
two
what is the question number three
which prompts should we talk about
remember we can only choose two and
number four
how can we connect these two prompts
together and sure these may look
confusing so let's look at an example
together
your class has attended a lecture about
ways nations could reduce fossil fuel
consumption you have made the notes
below
number one encourage use of public
transport number two recycling number
three alternative energy sources
some opinions expressed in the lecture
people will never take the bus when they
have cars
people need to be educated about the
importance of recycling
it is the government's responsibility
and not the public's to invest in
alternative energy
write an essay discussing two of the
ways in your notes
you should explain which way would be
more effective in reducing fossil fuel
consumption and provide reasons to
support your opinion
you may if you wish make use of the
opinions expressed in the lecture but
you should use your own words as far as
possible
so
first things first what is the topic
the topic is the need to reduce fossil
fuel consumption
and what is the question
the question is which of two ways would
be most effective at reducing fossil
fuel consumption
next we need to decide which prompts we
should choose
there are multiple ways to make this
choice however i would recommend
thinking about your conclusion while
choosing your two products yeah
you should already have your conclusion
in your head while choosing your prompts
perhaps you believe that recycled
material could be used as an alternative
fuel source
wow that is a great idea so we could
choose these two prompts and then talk
about that connection of the two prompts
in our fourth paragraph the idea that
recycling and alternative fuel sources
could be used together to reduce fossil
fuel consumption boy oh boy that's
brilliant and then of course our
conclusion will be connected to what we
said in paragraph four so this would be
a good option if this is your idea or
maybe you think that encouraging the use
of public transport is more important
than recycling you think that everyone
recycles anyway however many people
still use private transport so we can
compare and contrast these two points in
paragraph four i already have a
brilliant idea and therefore i will
choose these two prompts so this is the
sort of thing you should be thinking
about don't choose your prompts randomly
try and select two prompts that you can
compare and contrast successfully the
point is you should have the idea before
you make the commitment you don't want
to get to paragraph four and then
realize oh my gosh how are these two
ideas related i don't know because
that's a terrible thing so in this essay
i will choose recycling and encouraging
the use of public transport
i will argue that recycling is important
but that people are already aware of the
importance of recycling and in many
european countries it is a legal
requirement
however most people use private
transport and this situation should
change
so then we have our topic we've chosen
our prompts which means we understand
the question and we have our central
idea that we will argue for in paragraph
four
brilliant so now that we've done these
four things we should take this
information and try to integrate it in
to our structure
our introduction should introduce the
topic in a general way and then it
should state the point of the essay this
means you need to rephrase the question
in your own words in terms of planning
then i suggest just writing down key
vocabulary related to the topic in the
context of this topic which is the need
to reduce the use of fossil fuels you
could write down words like global
warming environmental pollution finite
resources
the greenhouse effect climate change
etc write these down and then try and
integrate as many as you can into your
introductory statement about the topic
in your
introduction and yeah that's how i
recommend planning the introduction
let's move on
in terms of the order of our two prompt
paragraphs it doesn't really matter
these two paragraphs serve to introduce
the prompt in relation to the topic and
the question so first let's talk about
recycling and in order to understand
what we should write about recycling
let's think about certain questions we
should answer in relation to the topic
and the question about recycling we need
to talk about recycling in relation to
fossil fuel use and maybe to you the
connection is really obvious but pretend
that the reader is an idiot you should
explain what recycling is and how
recycling relates to fossil fuel use and
also how it could help
these are some questions so number one
what is recycling number two how does it
relate to fossil fuel use and number
three how could it help if you answer
these three questions and connect the
answers all together then you will have
a pretty good paragraph
well done
so write down the questions and then
move on
and now we need to do the exact same
thing for prompt two which is
encouraging the use of public transport
so again let's ask ourselves some
questions about public transport but
number one how does public transport
relate to fossil fuel consumption what
are the advantages of public transport
over private transportation and maybe we
could give some examples of what
governments could do to increase the use
of public transport
i don't know some suggestions these are
complicated questions and if you answer
two of them then you will have produced
a good paragraph you can also invent
some scientific studies and statistics
to reference in your essay why not did
you know that private transport accounts
for 99 of carbon emissions oh
is that true i don't know but it sounds
good so i'm gonna say it in my essay
so now we have planned our introduction
and our two prompt paragraphs we now
need to write our fourth paragraph and
this should compare and contrast our two
prompts in relation to the question to
do this we need to understand what our
central point is and in this essay our
central point is that everybody recycles
everybody already knows how important
recycling is in some european countries
recycling is a legal requirement however
the majority of the citizenry still
thinks it's acceptable to commute in
private forms of transportation and oh
my goodness that is a travesty and so
governments should do more to encourage
the use of public transportation because
that should be where the priority is yes
yes in this paragraph we could also make
a suggestion on what a government could
do for example i will state that
governments should not spend more money
advertising about the importance of
recycling when that money would be
better invested into building up a local
infrastructure for
e-scooters that could replace cars
everyone will be going broom on their
electric scooters that is a great idea
i'm sure there will be no accidents
so to summarize in this paragraph you
should have your central point planned
and you should also have thought of an
example that you could use to illustrate
this central point
and now finally our conclusion and this
plans itself we simply summarize what we
have already said and then state our
opinion which will be connected to what
we have already said in paragraph before
right that's that's really obvious you
don't need to plan the conclusion
because if you've done everything else
perfectly the conclusion literally
writes itself well no not literally it
literally doesn't write itself you need
to write it it figuratively writes
itself
yes
so let us summarize number one identify
the topic the question and choose your
prompts number two
make sure you already understand what
your conclusion will be in relation to
the prompts number three
think about some great vocabulary that
you can use in your introduction related
to the topic number four think about
questions that you should be answering
in your paragraphs about the prompts and
these questions should be relating your
prompts to the topic and the question
number five think of your central point
in paragraph four and think of an
example that you will use to illustrate
this central point and number six well
there isn't a number six because the
conclusion will write itself if you have
done everything else perfectly
and with that we are finished now you
know every single thing you need to know
about how to plan your essay for the c1
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