how can you demonstrate that you have a sufficient range of vocabulary for your
IELTS writing task 2 today I'm going to show you four simple ways to avoid word
repetition and also I'm gonna give you a downloadable PDF file with synonyms for
20 most common adjectives used in the task 2 - ok let's get started hi there
it's Asiya do you know that lexical resource weighs 25% of your mark in IELTS
writing it means that 1/4 of your writing score depends on your vocabulary
and if you look at the IELTS band descriptors document you will see that in order to
score band 7 in writing you need to demonstrate a sufficient range of
vocabulary it means you need to show you know enough words to communicate your
ideas one of the ways to do so as to avoid unnecessary word repetition have
you ever noticed that you use ser words over and over again in your essay you
can easily spot this mistake yourself if you read your essay loud now let me show
you how to avoid repeating those words
instead of writing the same now two times in a row replace the second
occasion with a pronoun imagine you're given an example in the USA and it
sounds like that mister Adams has become the youngest CEO of his company mister
Adams was promoted when he was just 29 as you can see these sentences don't
sound quite right because words mister Adams are used twice we need to replace
them with a pronoun he but if we just do that
second sentence will read he was promoted when she was just 29 that
sounds lame so we slightly rephrase a sentence to drop the second he and we
get mr. Adams has become the young CEO of the company he was promoted at the
age of 29 non-native speakers often repeat words and that's because we tend
to write full sentences but in English you should try to drop any words which
are not necessary in the sentence like in our previous example instead of
saying when he was 29 just say at the age of 29 let me show you another
example large cities suffer from different types of pollution one of the
types of pollution is air pollution again there is no need to mention words
of the type of pollution twice in two sentences we replace it with the pronoun
there are types is plural so we can replace it by either the pronoun of
these of those large cities suffer from different types of pollution one of
these is air pollution or you can say one of those is air pollution when you
use a pronoun you refer back to the original idea and helps to link both
sentences together pronounce provide a smooth transition from previous sentence
to the next and that's a great way not only to avoid word repetition but also
to make us a more cohesive which improves your coherence and cohesion
school
instead of repeating around twice you can use to do so here is an example many
people are leaving the villages and the reason they're living is a lack of jobs
instead of our living we can say they are doing so many people are leaving
their villages and the reason they are doing so is a lack of jobs as you can
see we keep the same tense of the verb our living is present continuous so we
say our doing so and if our sentences weren't present perfect we would say
have done so many people have left the villages and the reason they have done
so there is a lack of jobs a number of nouns can replace other nouns let me
show you some of them system approach method solution problem factor you can
also use veo for example way of thinking type of
activity kind of form of method or it will be clearer what I mean if I show
you an example many schools use formal exams to great performance of their
students the main benefit of formal exams is cost effectiveness here we need
to replace the words for more exams in the second sentence what word from the
left column could you use here I would choose a face
approach many schools use formal exams to great performance of their students
the main benefit of this approach is cost-effectiveness now look at the right
column a way of type of what words could we use here Hamo exams are a form of
assessment so we could say the main benefits of this form of
assessment is cost-effectiveness here is another example large corporations
successfully use performance bonuses to motivate that stuff
however performance bonuses are too costly for small companies so how can we
replace the words performance balances I would use method large corporations
successfully use performance bonuses to motivate their stuff however this method
is too costly for small companies the word approach would also suit here this
approach is too costly for small companies so far we've been talking
about avoiding word repetition in two consecutive sentences but in general you
should not use the same word several times of many times in your essay even
in different paragraphs for example in one essay you might be talking about a
new type of transport a new idea new information that's not ideal you should
use a different word every time a synonym the task of learning synonyms is
enormous it's like telling someone improve your English it's not really
helping if you're preparing for the IELTS exam then probably you have
limited time and the best thing you can do in the limited period of time is to
learn synonyms for most common words used in IELTS writing for this video
I started with adjectives I went through lists of most common adjectives used in
English and I chose 20 which you're most likely to use in your IELTS writing task
2 these rods are really common and you
will definitely use at least some of them in USA then I found synonyms for
them and made a PDF list for you to download I'm going to tell you where to
find it in a second but now let's go back to our example what adjectives can
be used instead of the word new how about modern type of transport fresh
idea and up-to-date information judging by the
day's phrases one would things that you have a sufficient range of vocabulary
right but even though all those words are synonyms of the word new can you use
them interchangeably let's say fresh type of transport or up-to-date idea of
this will not each of them has its own subtle meaning and cases where you can
use the word that's why for my downloadable document I also included a
definition for each word and chose examples which are relevant for IELTS
writing now you can see that we can use the word modern to talk about present
time for example stress is a major problem of modern life or to talk about
the latest technology and materials and modern computer system up-to-date means
including the most recent information up-to-date equipment or when keeping up
to date with the latest developments and the road fresh means different in a way
that adds or replaces something I think it's time we tried a fresh approach or a
fresh idea I personally find it much easier to memorize a new word in a
phrase for example problems of modern life or keep up to date with the latest
months these are really nice free this and you couldyou them in your essay
directly speaking about the list of synonyms I've been talking about it so
much in this video and the link to download it will be on the screen in
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