Written by David S. Wills · May 8, 2025
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I’ve been teaching IELTS since 2010 and I’ve marked many thousands of essays as part of my writing correction service (former service). In that time, I’ve noticed that there are many words that IELTS candidates always seem to get wrong. These include common words like “individual” and “recently.”
A few days ago, I made this video lesson to help explain these problematic words. I talk about each word and why it is wrong, with examples that show you how to use it correctly.
Discussion
Hello David Wills, I want to ask you a question. When I address the question asking me ‘Is this a positive or negative development’, and my position is primarily positive development, then I could separate them like this way below:
1. Body 1: benefits of this trend
2. Body 2: negative sides of this trend + Refutting them with two ways: 1 – such shortcomings can be mitigated/reduced/addressed by some ways + explain them OR 2 – they are relatively minor, and they are not serious enough to outweigh the rewards/benefits
Hello. Yes, that would be fine.
Personally, I tend to put a concession paragraph as the first body paragraph because it is allows me to end that paragraph by transitioning into the opposite view and the build upon those ideas in body paragraph 2, but it’s just a preference and you can write a great essay in many different ways.