Hi guys! It's Asiya. Welcome to my IELTS channel. Today I'm going to share
with you six tips on how to improve your IELTS Writing skills immediately. I have
another video on the same topic which contains seven other tips and I'm
going to link it here and now if you're ready, let's get started!
before we dive into the first tip I want to say this in task 2 you're
required to write a formal essay and it doesn't matter whether you take IELTS
academic or general training and my tips today are for those who want to achieve
a band 7+ score but use them wisely and ensure that you maintain
accuracy in your writing tip number one also is more formal than too also and too
mean the same thing but too is more common in spoken and informal English in
your IELTS writing use also instead we usually place too at the end of the
sentence let me show you an example in addition to teaching students their
subject universities should help them develop their soft skills too - to make the
sentence more formal use also in addition to teaching students their
subjects universities should also help them develop their soft skills where do
you place also usually it comes before the main verb universities also help or
after the first auxiliary verb universities have also helped or
universities will also have helped after the first auxiliary verb or after the
modal verb universities should also help tip number 2 use the passive voice
formal sentences often use the passive voice because it sounds more
impersonal and neutral the active voice on the other hand may seem personal and
direct and it may sound a bit too casual or even a bit too aggressive
compere this some companies pay women less than their male colleagues or women
are paid less than their male colleagues the second one is more impersonal and
neutral that the passive voice is a great tool to use in some sentences of
your task 2 essay to make your essay sound more formal here is another
example they should make recommendations or
recommendations should be made the second one is impersonal and much more
formal tip number 3 use modal verbs in task 2 you are often required to give
your ppinion or find a solution to a problem or give a recommendation and
those opinions and solutions may often sound too direct in English you need to
soften your language to make it more diplomatic and more formal and that's
something you could achieve by using modal verbs such as could would might
here are some examples banning cars from city centers will alleviate the problem
of air pollution this is a statement but if you say banning cars from city
centers could possibly elevate the problem of air pollution it gives your
sentence a sense of possibility it's not a statement anymore and it makes your
writing sound more advanced however the meaning is still clear here is another
example some people consider physical education
at school unnecessary or some people might consider physical education at
school to be unnecessary I said to be to make the sentence
more formal as well tip number four use noun phrases if you
have no idea of what those are let me show you some examples and you get what
I mean so are the first initial sentences to
solve the problem the government should ban cars from city centers it sounds all
right but we could make it more formal by
saying the solution to this problem may lie in banning cars from city centers so
the solution to this problem is the noun phrase here is another example if those
suggestions are applied in practice the employment rate may decrease
using the noun phrase we could say application of those suggestions in
practice may yield reduction of the unemployment rate the second sentence is
much more formal and more sophisticated you may see that writing sentences using
noun phrases is more difficult and requires more vocabulary but they
definitely sound more formal and advanced tip number five place adverbs
within the verb in informal English we often begin our sentences or end our
sentences with an adverb for example then collected rainwater is filtered
try to place the adverb within the verb to make a sentence more formal collected
rainwater is then filtered here is another example often companies that get
the most from their people consider the human resources their biggest investment
or a more formal version would be companies that benefit the most from their
employees often consider the human resources their biggest investment as
you can see in the second sentence I placed often just before the main verb
consider I've also changed some words and I said to benefit the most from
their employees instead of saying to get the most from their people it sounds a
bit more formal where do you place your adverb
well usually just before the main verb companies often consider or after the
first auxiliary verb companies have often considered or companies will often
have considered if you have a modal verb place it after the modal verb companies
might often consider my next tip is simple don't use idioms I won't beat
around the bush there is no place for idioms in formal writing idioms belong
to informal language and you shouldn't use them in your IELTS task 2 essay if you
think about it it's a piece of cake avoid idioms your markers will be over
the moon if you do to learn 7 other tips on how to improve your writing
skills immediately you can watch this video the link is on the screen and in
the video description box below and you'll learn lots of things including why you
should avoid using the word very thank you for watching me today good
luck with your preparation and your exam bye