Written by David S. Wills · March 3, 2018
Today I’m giving you a sample answer for an IELTS Writing Task 2 question that I heard about recently.
Question
Nowadays, most people in cities live in large apartment blocks.
Does this kind of accommodation have more advantages or disadvantages?
Analyzing the Question
What sort of question is this? I’d say it’s a society question.
What about keywords? “People” and “apartment blocks”.
What do you have to do? Talk about advantages and disadvantages.
To be honest, it’s probably easier to talk about the advantages, but I wanted to show how you could do the opposite and give a more complex answer. In my essay below, I have mentioned an advantage in each body paragraph, and then given a counter disadvantage. I have tried to expand and give details for each, in thoroughly devel