IELTS Live - Questions for Band 9 Results

and welcome to our live ielts class my name is adrian and i'm streaming to you from beautiful victoria here on the west coast of canada i hope everybody is having a superb weekend so far i hope you're all staying healthy and strong students in this class we are going to be taking some ielts questions from our members and viewers this is a class that we host once every couple of weeks to give a chance to all of our members who support our channel to ask their questions about ielts or about the english language so that they can improve their band scores and go for those band 9 results miyen has joined already and kyber's joining in right now we've got more members coming in while our members are coming into the class a little bit about us these lessons are brought to you by aehelp.com for academic ielts success check us out there you can get answers to many of your questions on our website for the general ielts visit us at g ieltshelp.com that's generalisedhelp.com both of those websites have loads and loads of materials to help you improve your english communication and your ielts band scores this is our academic ielts website here you can join our premium package by clicking this button that's just above my head there um it's a one-time payment for lifetime access so it's well worth it welcome janil and once you join you have access to your my student account that's way up at the top there and then again in here you have lots and lots of help so you have computer-based practice exams where you click on one of these and then you'll be in an ielts exam this is for the reading section and then as well you have your full online academic ielts course where you can get strategies for all parts of the ielts lesson videos and then importantly i always show students during these question and answer sessions these uh kind of big buttons here let me go for those right there the blog and the forum so if you click on our blog or if you click on the forum section of our website then here you can also ask questions from other students as well as us to get answers okay welcome manya i'm doing great thank you for asking again members this is a question and answer class so please get your questions ready about the ielts exam or about english and i will do my best to answer your questions um of course you have this red question mark button as well where you can just send us a question or sorry the contact us button hit the contact us button and then you can send us a question here as well through email okay so lots and lots of help there same idea for the general ielts at gilesh.com it's a green background you can click this big red button right there to join our premium package again it's a one-time payment for lifetime access so it's really really well worth it welcome andre hi to you as well hi bakrat so again q a class today students uh it's a first come first serve so the first question will get the first answer and of course if questions are related i will do my best to make those connections all right everyone so here we go um if uh if you decide to get that premium package again it doesn't cost a lot at all um and to help you even further there's this code uh 20 off r4tyj uh so you can get that discount you can follow us on instagram ielts underscore ae help and giles help on our instagram profiles we post daily vocabulary tips strategies questions uh our schedule uh if you have questions that we don't get to today please just send me an email adrian aehelp.com again so we have a full schedule next week even on christmas um so december 18th to december 25th our schedule will look like this i'll put this up on our youtube community board as well as instagram uh tomorrow monday tuesday no live classes but we've got new hd classes coming to our channels so check that out okay and then we've got lots and lots of classes coming up from wednesday the 22nd all the way to the 25th so definitely take a look at that all right okay everyone so we'll get into our questions and answers and if you have a question just let us know students in the general english help channel i'm looking at you as well so if you have a question mania just let me know i can see that kyber already is asking a question which is fantastic so again anything that you've come across and when you're doing your studies uh if you have questions write these down because you can ask them during these q a sessions um members so here we go let me just um do something a little bit different here all right there we go okay so now you can kind of see my screen as well and you can see our members in here already ready to learn um okay and kyber is asking uh a good question here very good question actually kyber so kyber is asking sir how to detect and avoid uh wordy sentences in writing okay kyber let me just grab that question and then we'll get it here okay so this is for the writing section clearly all right so okay um very good question kyber very very good question because it's actually one of the most common ways that students um score kind of a ban seven seven five instead of an eight or an 8.5 because they have uh wordy sentences so um first of all kyber let me kind of write an example wordy sentence and then i think that will make uh more sense so let's say that you have a task to question kyber and the task two question is something like um something like this um uh what are the uh advantages and disadvantages of driving a car to work okay all right and then let's say that you're writing your essay kyber and you write a sentence like uh this um actually i'm going to do this again because this is something i see a lot of times when students are doing this in my opinion i believe that cars benefit drivers who are commuting to work by saving their time since they do not need to walk or take the bus however um the emissions from their cars uh may lead to um more pollution uh which is bad for the air okay so kyber there we go all right um so let me actually make this a little bit smaller here so we can see it better all right there we go so this is kind of a typical type of sentence kyber that i often see for students okay to write this okay so again kyber's question here is how do we detect and avoid um wordy sentences in writing it's a very very good question and it's a question that i think everybody should ask even people who are quite advanced in writing when you're doing this okay so um the reasons that these kinds of sentences lower your band score are so it's actually called wordiness wordiness is a type of mistake in writing and it's actually a considered bad mistake and one of the most common types of mistake at the high band score so band score is 789 okay and wordiness leads to confusion wasting time and awkward flow of reading so that's why it's bad okay when we have too many words uh expressing one idea then the reader eventually starts to be like what's going on there's too many ideas too much repetition of ideas happening here and it becomes awkward and it wastes time time that you can use to give more detail okay so time that could be used uh for more details and valuable information okay so that's why wordiness is really really bad at the at the higher uh levels of writing right and um a native speaker an examiner will definitely cache that they'll be like oh this student's just kind of using way too many words to express one idea okay so um again here's the example all right so let's say that you have a task two question the question is what are the advantages and disadvantages of driving a car to work now um the best way to avoid and reduce wordiness to answer your question kyber okay is first of all always review your writing for conciseness okay conciseness means that you're actually saying the ideas in a short way there's a word for that so you can imagine that it's important it's called concise so professors often in college and university will tell students you have to be concise in your communication so review your writing for conciseness okay and in specific you want to review your writing in this way so first of all check for repetition of ideas words and phrases okay b look for phrases that can be better expressed by one word okay and then c um check your grammar to see if a simpler or other grammar form can make the sentence more concise okay it's a very good question and i'll give you this example all right so one of the most common types of mistakes i see is this kind of mistake here let me ask you students so what do you think so what is what is some steps we could do with my example uh to make it more concise let me just kind of pull everything here so we can maybe see what some of our members are responding to this so again here the sentences in my opinion i believe that cars benefit drivers who are commuting to work by uh saving their time since they do not need to walk or take the bus however the emissions from their cars may lead to more pollution which is bad for the air so uh give me some ideas what can i do to make this sentence um more concise okay and again having concise writing comes from practice it comes from training your brain to do this and sometimes students will say oh well i don't have the vocabulary or i don't have the english it's not true okay you do it's being concise in your writing is much more about just thinking and the way that you look at the information yeah so meehan um right here says uh in my opinion and i believe that have the same meaning so we should erase one absolutely it's a very common mistake so um here uh we should erase the i believe that okay let's say for instance that we erase that okay yep janil says that too so i you can erase i believe that so we can say in my opinion cars benefit drivers who are commuting okay um we can do more erasing tell me more okay so that was the easy one and that's the one that you know it's an easy catch so make sure that you erase that one all right okay okay um what else what else this is a great question by kyber and um yeah i definitely think it's a good one to start with i see some other good questions as well so we've erased i believe that what else can we do tell me how else i can make this a better more concise sentence where i'm not wasting a ton of time and i'm making more sense or it's easier for the um for the reader to understand what i'm saying there's a lot more i'll give you a hand there's at least three four more uh steps that we can take okay so meen says drivers who are commuting to work simplify that to commuters very good me absolutely okay so notice this very wordy grammar here so who are commuting to work okay so we could say i believe or sorry we could say in my opinions cars benefit commuters going okay so let's uh replace that with this here and then let's take out this okay and then we're going here so okay now the sentence is becoming a bit better so we're saying in my opinion cars benefit commuters going to work by saving their time since they do not need to there's even more everyone what else can we do here okay keep looking at it and uh kyber this is exactly how you detect and avoid by practicing and figuring out how to do this in an easier way all right i'll give you one more chance here to um to give me some more ideas all right and uh and then we'll move to some other questions because i can see that there are some other good questions coming up here okay all right so some other ways this is still a very wordy sentence this would still not be considered a band 9 caliber sentence okay all right what else can i do and you have to be careful because when you're making your sentence more concise you must be careful not to lose information okay so that's a also an important detail to pay attention to is don't lose any important information okay so me says maybe we should erase from their cars yep we don't need from their cars exactly it's understood information of course in the sentence we know that these emissions emissions are the gases right that are coming out of the exhaust we know that the emissions are coming from the exhaust so it's unnecessary okay don't include information that is clear for the reader you don't need to say that when you have repetition of nouns like cars cars that's usually a strong hint that something is going on there okay yeah um exactly laura very good so laura is saying there we go so see now you're picking it up it just takes a bit of thinking right so laura says um i suppose we can take out which is bad for the air because it's again uh redundant information yeah this is unnecessary which is bad for the air in this kind of sentence so um take out information which is intuitive intuitive means uh clear for the reader now you have to be very careful there because not all information is clear for the reader but most readers will know that emissions are bad for the air okay all right so we can take that out all right okay um another uh um kind of common uh mistake for wordiness is unnecessary articles or unnecessary uh pronouns okay so take out and this takes practice but you should practice it take out unnecessary pronouns like they and there and articles okay sometimes students overuse articles like ah on and the okay so here um for instance we can take out there okay it's unnecessary we know it's the time of the commuter or of the person so we don't need that okay okay now we could argue that since they do not need to walk or take the bus um it may or may not be necessary but we do have to be careful because that's not necessarily understood for the reader so we might want to keep that okay also another one um is that we well i don't know if it's wordiness per se but it helps to make this sentence better is um take out uh weak often modal language okay so uh here is this other word may and uh i see this a lot where students use words like would or may or could and these modal words they actually weaken your writing so they're bad in two ways they they make your i should not put that in green uh they make your writing um weaker and they also make it wordy okay so if i have this sentence now let me put it below here okay and let's take out these elements and then we can compare it okay very good question kyber to start the class here look at look at all of these just disappearing there um you hear me hammering away on the delete button maybe even okay so here we have the original sentence uh one more time in my opinion i believe that cars benefit commuters going or sorry one more time in my opinion i believe that cars benefit drivers who are commuting to work by saving their time since they do not need to walk or take the bus however the emissions from their cars may lead to more pollution which is bad for the air okay now here is the much better sentence so in my opinion cars benefit commuters going to work by saving time since they do not need to walk or take the bus however the emissions lead to more pollution okay you can hear it like when you read it you can hear it so this first sentence is 46 words and this second sentence is 30 words okay so there's 46 words just did the word count on it and i by the way i minus these two words because i know we're still using those and we added those so i did take those out it actually showed me 48 words right and this second sentence here is 30 words according to so that's a difference of uh 50 percent okay that's huge right um imagine that on a uh on an essay that's uh 450 words so think about that okay just so you're like oh it's okay it's 16 or 15 words but what does that actually mean so this means that you can turn um a 450 word essay into a 300 word essay okay so it is very important to work on wordiness and making um your sentences much more concise okay so uh does that make sense everyone is that is that good okay thumbs up you got it so again just to reiterate to reduce wordiness look for word repetition look for weak words modals that are not necessary look for pronouns and look for articles that are not necessary look for grammars maybe another type or another grammar approach can make the sentence a lot more concise um look for intuitive ideas so some idea that like you say people need to breathe okay well yeah most people know that people need to breathe you don't have to tell your reader right okay so we've got some thumbs up there that's super cool um yeah bakra the second version of that sentence would definitely be closer to your band nine type of writing okay all right um so be very careful okay be very very careful and practice writing concise okay all right um and i did see some more questions coming after kyber here but i did see a question that was related to this so i'm going to look at that one and i believe it was yes there was a task to question that was asked here let me try to find it maybe it was taken out okay yeah um students don't remove your questions once you have them in there because i think hasn't this was your you had a task two question here um and uh oh yeah i think it was yeah so asana was asking this i believe see i'm really paying attention to your chat everyone um husna was asking this question it was a good question so hasn't was asking is task two more formal or informal a language okay there's actually an interesting answer to this hasn't so the answer uh is three-fold so uh task one for academic is formal expository essay in third person voice okay task two for general or or i should say and academic is a formal uh persuasive essay in first or third person voice and task one for general uh is uh informal or formal um in first person voice i should say narrative essay in uh first person voice okay so this is what you need to know and hustle this is a really good question because a lot of students don't understand this or don't understand it enough but task one for academic is a formal expository essay where you explain a table a pie chart a diagram and you do it in the third person voice so in the objective general voice without using i me my of course know you or yours because that's second person voice task two for general and academic they're they tend to be formal so you don't use contractions like don't you have to write do not instead of hasn't you have to write has not okay so it's a formal persuasive essay and it's either in the first person you and your sorry i mean i um or it's in the third person it depends on the question if it's asking for your personal opinion you can use the first person voice if it's not asking for your personal opinion then you can use the third person voice task one for general can be formal or informal and it's a narrative it's a story it depends if you're writing a letter to your friend if it's a letter to your friend then it's informal but if it's a letter to your boss for example then it should be formal okay so you have to really pay attention to the question uh for these uh task two and task one general all right okay uh does that make sense everyone about the formal and informal essays so i know we get a lot of questions um about this from other students as well and again if we if we go back to our website here and i'm already logged in here at ahelp.com and then we go to our my student account um there's uh there's a blog on this so if you go to our blogs and you type essay types i think you can do a search for that yeah and so use this search bar here that i just used in our blogs just above my head i typed an essay type and then i hit search and as soon as i did that i've got this blog here and it says ielts task to writing question types answer strategies let me make this page a little bit tinier there we go um and now you can see uh this blog okay um so this blog there you go um it says there's a lot of confusion about the types of essay questions for task two of the alts examine the correct structure for answering these some people believe there are four types of essays while other believe two and others still believe many more in fact these are all true and false okay and then here's the full article that gives you a lot of explanation about this so read these blogs on the website you can look at those for free by the way everyone okay all right kyber says yes that's cool awesome okay so let's see um let me go back to the question coming after kyber here so the next question is by andre and andre is asking uh what must we what we must to do okay andrew a little bit easier what must we do what must we do if uh in reading we have a difficult topic to read and totally do not understand dum dum dum [Music] okay all right andre um i'll give you some ideas here okay so this is andre's question here let's make this a little bit bigger all right so andre uh number one this is the answer okay let's move andre to the next line here so let's say you come across uh just a really a topic that's really foreign to you okay that you're having a lot of uh difficulty with um for instance uh we have a couple in our exams where students are like oh that's a tough one like causes of the american economic crisis for instance um so answer number one um if you have other passages that you haven't read yet uh start with those okay so if this happens to be passage one or passage two uh and you're like whoa what's going on this topic is just really weird um look at all of the titles of every passage okay in general ielts you're going to see five different kind of topics in academic you're going to see three but they're three longer ones if you're not if one of them is just really confusing leave that one till last okay so um start with the ones that you know where you have the best chance to pick up uh marks okay so keep that in mind don't force yourself because then what can happen is you'll waste a lot of time trying to figure that one out and then you get to another one where you do understand it and then you're like oh but i only have 10 minutes left in the reading section that's really bad so don't don't do that okay so start start with ones that you understand okay so um the next that the next step that you can do of course is a read the questions as these are paraphrased uh from the passage so they will give you a better idea okay so just um just read the questions read them a couple times okay and those should help you a little bit uh visualize all right so do your best to see the information okay all right um remember your own knowledge okay so uh ielts kind of introduces like grade 12 level information usually so if you've finished your grade 12 and maybe you've done a year of college then think about what you've learned about that so let's say that your passage is about psychology and you're like whoa i don't know much about psychology or don't panic it might just be you know a lot of it might be just general information about psychology so as long as you remember the basics that you learned about human psychology in your school that could really be helpful okay so use your own knowledge so basically those are the best those are the best ways and i'm going to give you another important piece of information here if you are getting frustrated and you are still having lots of problems take a deep breath do your best and stay calm for the writing section just remember students the worst possible scenario is losing your cool as this will have a negative effect on your writing as well okay so don't freak out don't panic okay you might surprise yourself you might still do okay even if you think that you don't understand the passage the worst that can happen is you start freaking out okay and then you get to the writing section your brain is still ruminating about the reading section and your writing section score suffers so careful with all that okay andre does that make sense students um does that does that make sense so uh what i said here so andre's question again was what do we do if there's a really difficult topic in the reading section and you totally don't understand it start with another passage go to another passage read the questions paraphrase they're paraphrased right so visualize really really hard try hard to create some kind of an image in your head and use the knowledge that you have okay all right andre says i will do that okay and definitely definitely don't get all frustrated and get all crazy okay all right uh let's see after uh andre we have mien asking how to avoid repeating myself and improving fluency while speaking very nice question me and it's a good one for next class because we have um a speaking part three next class and i'm going to take some volunteers and me if you're in the class and you're volunteering you can practice this okay so a really good question for now and for the next class as well so this is me and me is asking this question and it's a good one because uh in fact me this is kind of connected to kyber's question with um wordiness so wordiness is not only in writing of course but it's also in speaking and it's good to avoid wordiness in uh your expressed communication so when you write and when you speak you express ideas right you give ideas to the audience and certainly you want to avoid wordiness in both of those scenarios so oral or written okay and of course you can't do the same as in writing because it's real time right so it's a little bit different than than writing you can't exactly be like just a second i'm going to say that again but i'm going to remove some words and i'm going to avoid my modals like wood and can and then say it again so you have to do it in real time it's real time editing right it's real time review real-time editing so it's more challenging now here's an interesting one meme by practicing concise writing you will also become more concise while speaking okay so uh doing this uh we're doing these steps here for writing that we covered at the beginning from kyber's question is super useful because that helps your verbal communication to be a lot more concise as well all right so that's tip number one is do it in writing okay will help your brain to work fast in real time okay um here are some other tips okay so visualize uh the information and the age-old saying your parents have said it all societies all cultures have this saying think before you speak so do your best to come up with an answer before you speak okay it is better to use natural fillers and buy time to come up with a clear answer then to just start speaking okay so keep that in mind it's not ideal so in a perfect world you're not using natural fillers and you're not asking for time but it's still better to do that than to be really wordy so it is better to use natural fillers such as and to ask for time that's an interesting question may i have a moment then to repeat yourself or go off topic of course another way to be concise is to remember that strategy that i keep saying okay so always remember answer explain examples so a lot of what you're hearing here me it's just me kind of repeating those tips that i give you during the speaking classes and to do this use connective words and this is an important one me because i think me if you practice this you're gonna get really good at this okay and use connective words that force you to be fluent and concise like uh because therefore as a result okay that's for examples and then for um or sorry that's for explanations and then for examples uh use the word just or like just keep that in your head me like really keep it in your head and even if you don't have your example yet use the word so you can be like just the other day i went for a walk in the park and took some pictures of birds okay so you can kind of stretch these connective words and then that gives you an extra second to think about new information and to kind of hold on to your fluency okay so example um and you can use just or like or the other day okay lots of ways to do that all right is that clear uh me okay so thumbs up students if that's clear on how to make your speaking more fluent and less repetition of course pay attention to the question use the elements of the question as well it was a really good question because i know you know a lot of this information keeps getting repeated but that's what it is and even at the advanced level people need to hear it again and again to really focus in and say oh yeah of course yeah i keep forgetting that example i keep forgetting that quantitative information okay so pay attention to the question and use it in your answer okay all right um [Music] let's see here so bakrat is asking why does it take me more than an hour to solve three passages and i'm unable to finish the passages buckrat you know to simply answer your question here read more so keep reading don't just read ielts exams and ielts passages but read novels so pick up a book that you like that's got an interesting story maybe it's a mystery novel maybe it's a fantasy novel maybe it's a biography and read it okay read casual english every day to improve your comprehension and your fluency a lot of students don't do that a lot of students who take the ielts still think that english is going to be just a secondary language for them and they really only need to do the ielts and then once they pass the ielts they can kind of be like okay well english is my secondary language and uh whatever you're speaking whether that's vietnamese hindi punjabi russian they think okay i'll just go back to that and that's my main language students you have to make if you're especially if you're young still and i mean young like 30 or less or even 40 or less you have to make english your equally important primary language it's the global language so you have one language that's local to your region and then you have another language that's just the language of the world that's english so you have to almost balance your language use like 50 50. 50 hindi 50 english or 50 vietnamese 50 english the sooner you do that the more likely the much more likely that you're going to not only be more successful financially because of course a lot of money is made and traded using english but you'll also get to enjoy a bigger picture of the world so basically these days all countries share their cultures through english right so it's not just like oh i'm learning english so that you know i can study in the states and understand american movies no you can be learning english to understand people better in russia or better in sudan or better in malaysia because that's how other cultures are sharing their their people their language as well so make english fifty percent of your life and background as soon as you start doing that your reading will improve okay all right and again for those people who are like wow he's canadian he's english and he's no i i'm a canadian hungarian i speak canadian i speak hungarian or canadian i speak english i speak hungarian and i also learn japanese for university as in canada university students are required a global language like japanese korean mandarin russian hungarian is not accepted so i had to so i speak three languages and i can see how it's difficult and i can empathize but english is still the language that you know most of the world is using right okay all right um so that's kind of my short answer bakrat all right everyone we've had lots of questions and i can see that there are a few more in the chat uh laura pronunciation focus on phonetics okay i'm gonna leave on that note so laura's asking how do i improve my pronunciation laura two important points on that number one don't worry too much about your pronunciation if other people can understand you it's good enough okay only worry about your pronunciation if people are like what's going on laura i can't understand you what are you saying or they're like it's so weird how you pronounce that word laura if you're getting a lot of that worry about your pronunciation if you're not getting a lot of that don't worry about it because there are many different styles of english around the world so pronunciation is i don't want to say the least of your worries but it's not a major focus area in my opinion okay unless people don't understand you people don't understand you yes then focus on pronunciation and you focus on phonetics okay pronunciation first of all don't really worry about it as long as people understand you like there are some native english speakers that i don't really understand sometimes okay all right if people don't understand you uh understanding your words laura if you can um volunteer for a question next class in the next speaking class and then i'll let you know if you need to even worry about your pronunciation okay so if people have trouble understanding your words focus on phonetics okay and there are different kind of speech therapies and speech therapists and videos that show you how to move your tongue in your mouth to pronounce certain words copy native speakers okay students i'm going to stop there again if i didn't answer your question we had some really good questions in today's class but if i didn't answer your question send me an email to adrian aehelp.com okay so again that's my email and we can answer your questions there you can also go to our website and uh in your my student account uh you can uh get your questions answered by clicking on that contact us button way up there um you can look at the the blog up there or the forum right up there okay so these three parts will help you to get answers um and of course you can get a lot of answers by just going through the course uh there okay i'm looking the other side there um and and to get access to our premium ielts package just click on that big red button there it's a one-time payment for lifetime access uh coming up in 30 minutes i will host a speaking class we're going to finish the week with speaking part three and uh i will ask some questions i'm going to call some of our viewers i'm going to spend as much time as possible today on that so make sure to come back and get into the chat i'll be looking for some members as well okay all right andrew says it's like i'm in a spaceship i'm looking around right it's like i'm in the cockpit of a spaceship um all right so uh 30 minutes i'll be back everybody uh make sure to visit us on our websites at aehelp.com for academic ielts and geilshelp.com for general isles we've got loads and loads of learning there for you it's well worth it have an awesome break shake out the legs take a short walk maybe have a cup of water come back and get ready for some speaking part three see you soon everybody i'm adrienne signing out from victoria thanks for your questions members bye for now

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Length: 54min 11sec (3251 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 18 2021