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Now that you have completed the aisles, task one section of our course is now time to move into its

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task, to which is a standard essay.

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In this lecture I'm going to provide you the basic information of Ihls task too.

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So let's get started.

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First of all, it's very important for you to understand what we're going to cover in this section of

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our course.

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We're going to start off with an introduction, which is what you're listening to right now.

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Afterwards, we're going to really get into a scoring analysis.

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This is a really, really important part of this course section.

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Many students want to know, how can I move my score from a five to a 7.5 or really a five to a 6.5?

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A 7 to 8 and eight?

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Two and nine.

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In the scoring analysis.

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I'm going to tell you exactly how to do that.

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After the scoring analysis, we'll get into the question analysis.

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In this lecture, we're going to really explain to you how to understand a question properly.

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When you're answering the question, what are all of the elements that you need to address?

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This is going to really help you with getting a really high task achievement task development score.

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And then we're going to get into outlining essay questions, thesis statements, writing a complete

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introduction, writing topic sentences, writing body paragraphs, conclusions.

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And then you're going to get some live timed essay examples where I'm going to be writing an essay in

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real time so you can see how it's all put together.

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So for the elite exam, there are two question types that you have for a task.

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Number one, if you're doing the academic exam is going to be a chart or a report or possibly a map

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or a process.

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If you're doing the general exam, you're going to have to write a letter and that could be a formal

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or informal type of letter.

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Now, task number two is the standard essay, and that's what we're getting into here.

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The standard essay, this is where you have to prove your ability to write the standard essay that they

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teach in almost every ESL school around the world.

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You have to write in a way that's measured up to the standards that the examiners expect when giving

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a student a score of seven plus.

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So what is a standard English based essay?

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Let's just start with the foundation.

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What is a standard essay?

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It's a piece of writing that is used to convince someone of a position that you're going to take.

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You must use a certain level of reasoning and evidence to score very, very well in order for the reader

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to be convinced.

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You have to follow a certain logical pattern.

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There's certain components that you must include when writing a standard English based essay.

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Now, of course, I'm going to tell you what those components are, and I'm going to give you examples

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of each of those components.

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The examiner wants you to write a 4 to 5 paragraph essay.

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So there are many, many types of questions on the eye exam, many, many types of questions, and they

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all revolve around the same theme of argumentation.

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They're just different ways of phrasing it or stating it.

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But for every single question, you're giving your opinion.

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So.

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Of course, you have the agree or disagree question.

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And sometimes this is phrased as just a direct agree or disagree, and then at other times it will be.

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To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Then we have a discuss both sides question opinion questions, two questions embedded.

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That means that when you have the essay question, they'll have two separate questions within it.

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They may ask you whether something is positive or negative as one question.

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And then in another question, they will they will next to that question or right after that question,

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they'll have a separate question that is asking something different.

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Then you have a preference question where you have to choose one.

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Out of a list.

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Or you may have a pair choice where you have to choose between two.

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And also be aware that it's possible to have a question where you have to choose from three or four

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items.

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That was something that they used to do on the exam a long time ago.

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But be aware because anything they've done in the past, they can bring up again.

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Then we have the advantage disadvantage question and that could be worded many different ways.

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It can just be discussed.

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The advantages and disadvantages, it can be discussed the advantages and disadvantages and give your

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opinion.

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Or it could be compare the advantages and disadvantages.

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Then we have the cost solution question or problem solution question.

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So these are all of the different question types that you could possibly have to address on the exam.

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Now, the good thing for you is that I teach one method, one strategy to address all of the questions.

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There's no separate writing strategy or writing structure for a problem solution question.

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They all are going to use the same structure, the same strategy.

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All right.

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So there's something that I really want you to understand about essay writing.

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And that's any essay.

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Any standard essay is basically written like an inverted pyramid.

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And that's a very important concept to understand when you're trying to mentally imagine what an essay

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should be written like.

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So when you look at an essay from the overall global perspective of an essay, just look at the shape

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of how it's written mentally, because on paper it looks like the same shape, but really it's not.

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The introduction is more general.

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So it's like the wide base of the pyramid.

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And then when you get to the body paragraphs, it narrows down a little bit more.

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It narrows down just a little bit more.

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And then when you finally get to the conclusion, it all comes down to a point.

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When you look at the introduction and the body paragraphs is the exact same inverted pyramid shape.

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With an introduction, you start off with a general statement related to the topic.

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Then you move down and you narrow it into the specific question that's being asked.

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And then you wrap things up with a thesis statement.

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With a body paragraph is the exact same inverted pyramid style of writing.

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You start off with the topic sentence and then it focuses down into the details and then a more specific

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example or explanation of the detail.

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And then in my wrap up with a concluding sentence for that paragraph and then for the overall essay,

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of course, you conclude with a a overall conclusion for the essay itself, but that's really what essay

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writing is.

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And so you have to think about that when you're looking at your introduction.

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Is your introduction being written like an inverted pyramid?

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Are your body paragraphs being written like an inverted pyramid?

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That's what creates the type of writing.

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The score is very well.

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So here's our 35 minute six step writing strategy.

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We have six easy steps to follow for you to be able to write the type of essay that's going to score

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very well.

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Number one, you have 2 minutes to analyze the question.

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This is a critical step, a very important step.

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This makes sure that you're going to answer all the parts of the question and that you answer it accurately.

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Number two, outline the question after you understand what you have to write because you've analyzed

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the question.

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Now it's time to do an outline.

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And I need for you to be able to do your outline in less than 5 minutes.

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Then we're going to move to step number three, writing the introduction.

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The introduction should be written in 5 minutes.

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There are three parts to it.

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Introduction, the general idea, paraphrasing the question and then your thesis statement.

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Then we have steps four and five.

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Which are your body paragraphs?

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Each body paragraph.

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You have 10 minutes to write each body paragraph.

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And then finally, we're going to wrap things up with the conclusion which involves your restating your

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thesis statement and making any possible future recommendation for the reader.

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So.

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These six steps encompass what I want you to do in terms of your writing process itself.

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Now, you're going to hear me later on talk about in terms of the introduction and the body paragraphs,

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that it is possible for you to write your body paragraphs before you write the introduction.

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Some people like to do it that way because really the body paragraphs are the or the heart of the score.

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That's where most of your points come from the body paragraphs themselves.

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Also, by writing the body paragraphs first, some people feel like they'll have a better understanding

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of their essay and they can write the introduction faster.

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So we'll talk about that a little bit later on.

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But these are our six foundational steps to writing a 35 minute essay.

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And I always want you writing in 35 minutes.

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I know.

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I know that you basically have 40 minutes to do it.

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But if you finish in 35 minutes, that's going to give you 5 minutes to go ahead and really edit and

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improve your essay.

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What happens to a lot of students is they write right up to the 40 minute mark and then they have no

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time for improving the essay.

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I want you to have five strong minutes to really improve and edit that essay.

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Take some of those simple sentences and form compound sentences.

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Include an adjective clause.

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Find synonyms for some of your vocabulary.

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You need time to do that.

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Correct mistakes.

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Right.

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You need that extra 5 minutes.

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All right.

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Thank you very much.

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This completes part number one of the introduction.

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Coming up next, we will complete the introduction with part number two.

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And then we're going to go ahead and move forward with how to outline essay questions.

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Thanks a lot.

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I'll talk to you soon.