Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Support your Positions - Stay within the Question

 It's 1 November,  My thanks to the candidate who offered up material to present a lesson. Important lesson here for Task 2 writing.



Wednesday, July 26, 2023

2023 so far

 Here are some recent candidate writings I've reviewed with some lessons included.

The first of two videos based on the same question about risk
RISK

 

A rare Task 1 process diagram

 We got a map in here
 

And the 2nd risky report




Sunday, July 16, 2023

Meet the Band: Descriptors

 

The Band Descriptors have a new release in 2023– their first in more than a decade.  Scoring Criteria”, boldly released as double album of 36 tracks, brings IELTS-music that will sound  familiar to those who’ve known and loved  their last release, “Public Version”, while making their messages clearer and accessible to the next generation of fans.  Indeed, the Candied Dates – as followers of the Descriptors call themselves – could get a lot more out of this collection when they understand and heed what it’s saying. 

 
Let’s meet the band.  They’ve got a bit older as compared to when they were newly signed to Cambridge/BC/IDP Records. Let's remember the band, Descriptors!

The lead guitarists remain two brothers named Task, who will actually play the same instrument at any given show. The older brother, Achievement, starts off with his focus on accuracy and requirements. When his younger brother, Rez Ponse, takes over, we hear an overall more position-based and opinionated tone.


Words cannot describe the inimitable vocalist and lyricist Lexi Kalre-Source. Born to a poor family of limited resources, she’s overcome her vocabulary dependency struggles to earn the incredible range and precision she shares today.

 

 

 

 

The organization and progression of the


Descriptors’s sound comes from the Coe brothers, bassist and percussionist, Herence and Hesion respectively.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lastly, but never forgotten, the Descriptors are punctuated by the silver-haired sweethearts, Gramma “Tea-Caller” Ainge and Gramma “Tea-Call-a-Cure” Racie. 


 

Saturday, April 8, 2023

What the Fook?

 This advice comes from a guy whose name I used to make fun of... while informally coaching him on what he needed to do in task One


Here's the advice I'd given Fook.




Thursday, September 1, 2022

Beware the 12-pont Task 1 question!

 


A Long Way to Go -

 I don't review IELTS writing voluntarily as much as I used to, but I don't think that jad much to do with why I had to stop midway through the 2nd paragraph and give up.


Saturday, February 26, 2022

Can't See the Forest (overview) through the trees (details)

 

 

Lots of description here  - made possible by the small scope of the task.  Lost is the overview.