JUMP IELTS IELTS ESSAYS LETTERS, GRAPHS, DIAGRAMS & MAPS ABAZAR ALIZADEH Whatever you do, do it heartily, as for the Lord and not for the Man Acknowledgements I would like to appreciate all those who provided me with enlightening suggestions by reading the manuscript. I would like to thank Mr. Ashkzari who helped me immeasurably to publish this book. Finally I would like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to my wife without whose patience and support writing this book would have been impossible.
Abazar Alizadeh Tehran, December 2009 About the Author Abazar Alizadeh specialized in ELT (English Language Teaching) from the University of Allameh Tabatabaee, and started his professional teaching career as a TOEFL (Pbt) instructor in 1998 and in 2000, he began to teach IELTS, GRE and GMAT preparation courses. In 2002, he was awarded a prize by the University of Allameh Tabatabaee for wining third place in Iran's nationwide MA examination. He also has taught "Contrastive Analysis", "Language Teaching Methodology", "Advanced Essay Writing" and many other courses at various universities in Tehran. He published his first book entitled "New IELTS Strategies" in 2004 and from 2004 to 2007 he worked as an IELTS supervisor and syllabus designer for various IELTS Centers in Iran.
In 2008, he published his speaking book entitled "New IELTS Interview Samples" which is widely used by candidates in Iran and many other countries in the world including Georgia, Armenia, the UAE and Turkey. In 2009, he published his writing book "IELTS Essays" to give a chance to IELTS candidates to read as many samples as they wish to prepare themselves for the writing test. Author's Guide to the Book IELTS Writing Tasks For the first task of the Academic Module, you need to describe a graph; a diagram or a map and you are required to write at least 150 words in 20 minutes. The second task requires you to write an essay with at least 250 words within 40 minutes.
For the first task of the General Module, you need to write a letter and you are required to write at least 150 words in 20 minutes. The second task requires you to write an essay with at least 250 words within 40 minutes. Essay Samples IELTS Essays provides numerous essay samples in both the academic and the general modules of the test. There are precisely 30 academic essays and 30 general essays.
There are five essay question types in the IELTS writing test and the book provides essay samples on all question types. Candidates should note that even though academic essay questions need you to discuss more complicated issues than the general essay questions, there is no difference in the essay formats. As a result candidates can benefit from all sixty essays regardless of the module they intend to take. In addition to practicing the essay formats by analysing the sample essays, you can have access to a plethora of ideas on various issues along with topical words used to discuss the idea.
After each essay sample, a question is provided to let you practice writing an essay on your own. Hence in total the book provides 60 different essay questions for the candidates. Graph, Diagram & Map Samples Graphs are far more frequent than diagrams; accordingly, the book contains 20 graph descriptions and 6 diagram descriptions. Maps are rarely given in IELTS task 1; hence, only two map descriptions are provided in order to give you the chance to familiarize yourself with such tasks and not to deviate your attention away from the main task which is the graph.
The graph, diagram and the map samples not only let you get familiarized with various task types but also provide many of the words needed to pull off each task. Letter Samples There are formal letter questions, semi-formal letter questions and informal letter questions in IELTS writing task 1 and so the book contains letter samples of all types. The letters are written according to standard letter formats and include all the various parts of a standard letter. The letter samples give you enough ideas, expressions and words to handle sample questions provided after each letter sample.
Appendix To ace your writing test, you need to know numerous expressions and structures for different purposes. I have included useful connectives, words and structures for 27 different functions. Learning these useful words and structures can help you with various language functions. Table of Contentss Table of Co ontents Genneral Moddule Letter Samplles.
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10 ou want to seell some of you Yo ou borrowed some books from f a library. 11 W Write a complaaint letter to a bank. 12 Yo ou have just been b qualified n. 13 d for a position W Write ompany.
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18 W Write a fareweell letter to one of your colleeagues. 19 W Write a letter to t a colleague who is hospittalized. 20 ou cannot attend the class for some reassons. 21 Yo Gen neral Essaays .22 Do o animals havve rights?.
23 W What are the advantages a nd disadvantagges of being rich?. 24 an Are comic bookks trash?. 25 W are teenagers becomin Why ng addicted?. 26 healthy foods from school canteens? Caan they remove all the unh c.
27 Su uggest some solutions s in orrder to preven m getting obeese. 28 nt people from Does playing gaames teach uss about life?. 29 W What are the advantages a an nd disadvantagges of studyin ng abroad?. 30 Caan the govern nment set a hiigher driving age? a.
31 i TTable of Contents W What are the benefits b of exeercise?. 32 overnment heelp reduce thee number of car accidents?. 33 How can the go W are schoo Why ng and uselesss?. 34 ol classes borin Sh hould huntingg animals as a sport be illeggalized?.
35 How can recycling save the environment e and help the people on Earrth?. 36 W do you think people atttend college or Why o university?. 37 W What are the most m importan nt reasons forr getting divorrced?. 38 Iss people’s cho ons.
39 oice of leisure activities affeected by fashio hould studentts spend theirr free time leaarning their school lessons??. 40 Sh Sh hould police forces f use security camerass in public placces?. 41 W What are the advantages a of attending sch hool before th he age of 7?. 42 Su uggest some good g places to o obtain inforrmation for a research.
43 W What are the major m o getting exeercise?. 44 effects of W What are the reasons for sch hool drop‐outt and what are e the solution ns?. 45 W What are the negative n effects of television? how can we hem?. 46 w minimize th W What are the problems p asso ociated with TV nd what soluttions can you offer?.
47 V addiction an nity. 48 Discuss the advvantages and disadvantagees of building a company in your commun W What are the advantages a an n a big city?. 49 nd disadvantagges of living in uses of longevvity?. 50 Discuss the cau W What are the causes c of stresss and how caan we solve it??.
51 Discuss the advvantages and disadvantagees of studying abroad?. 52 Acaademic Module M Graaphs, Diaggrams & maps m .53 Th he different leevels of post‐sschool qualificcations in Australia. 54 Th he proportion n of different categories c of families livingg in poverty. 55 Th he amount off money per week w spent on n fast foods in Britain.
56 Th he rate of fish he USA and Caanada. 57 h catches in th he trends in the Australian immigration from 1992 to 2002. 58 Th Th he causes of diseases d ed countries. 59 in developing and the develope Th o generate eleectricity in the USA.
60 he forms of energy used to he average monthly tempeeratures in thrree African countries. 61 Th Fo our different cars untries. 62 c manufacttured in threee different cou Th he factors affeecting students' decisions when w choosing a universityy. 63 How much coal it would takee to make all the energy.
64 ii Table of Contentss Th he incidence of o injuries cau used in differeent sports. 65 Th ng patterns in two differentt years. 66 he US spendin Th net users. 67 he percentagee of the intern Th he literacy rattes of six diffeerent countriees.
68 he percentagee of obese people in 12 diffferent countriies. 69 Th Th he amount off meat consum A. 70 med in the USA Th he number off London Undeerground stattion passengers. 71 Th i six different Persian Gulff countries.
72 he oil producttion capacity in he number off children killeed in road acciidents. 73 Th Th he typical stagges of consum mer goods manufacturing. 74 he process byy which bricks are manufacttured. 75 Th he process byy which examss are taken in a computer room.
76 Th Th he process byy which plasticc paper clips are ured. 77 a manufactu How a central heating h system m in a house works w. 78 How olive oil iss produced. 80 he map showss the site of a shopping cen Th N Townsville.
81 he map showss the city of New Acaademic Esssays .82 Sh hould the sociiety ban violent and pornoggraphic scene es from being broadcast?. 83 M capital pu Must unishment bee banned?. 84 M capital pu Must unishment bee banned?. 85 W are the main reasons fo Why or advertisem ment?.
86 w what are the harmful effectss of body pierrcing on our health?. 87 W Would they likee to live in a multicultural m s society?. 88 W should wee avoid racism Why m and how can n we solve it?. 89 W violence on Television ultimately Will u resu ult in more vio olence?.
90 W internet ussers finally end up addicted Will d to the net?. 91 M the goverrnment ban hand guns?. 92 Must W is it hard to Why t define happiness? and how h can we acchieve it?. 93 Discuss views for f and againsst human cloning and give your y opinion.
94 Does space exp ploration makke any sense?. 95 W What are the main o environmental pollution?. 96 m sources of mes?. 97 How can peoplle save energyy in their hom W What are somee of the factorrs affecting seelf‐esteem?.
98 Iss children’s miisbehaviour in n life due to th heir genetic ch haracteristics??. 99 iii TTable of Contents M violent an Must nd pornograp phic scenes bee censored?. 100 How can techn ducation? .