is divided into three parts first we look at the list of phrases second I'll give you

some advice and tips and knowledge on how to use these phrases and then finally we're

going to use a phrase in a real IELTS Task 2 question so you know exactly what to do

when it comes to the exam so let's jump straight into it so here we have our lovely phrases

you can see that we've got about -- we've got the starting phrase which says this essay

set out to… and then what we do is we add one of those 8 alternatives underneath so

we can say this essay set out to establish whether… and then we relate it back to the

question or this essay set out to determine whether… this essay set out to develop a

model for… we're probably not going to use that one this essay set out to better

understand the issues… so we've got a few options there and then we put on whatever

is relevant to our essay in the same regard we could say this essay set out to… and

then you can take over from there this essay has argued that the effects of globalization

are ever increasing and with that comes ever-increasing dangers… whatever okay last one or final

ones overall this essay strengthens the idea that equality for both genders is an important

issue okay and this essay has discussed the reasons for… in this essay the aim was to

assess… the aim of this essay was to examine… now I say use these with caution okay this

is the second part of the video where I'm just going to tell you how to use them I'll

give you advice use them with caution because you can start to sound verbose verbose is

when you use a lot of words to describe something that could be described with less the opposite

of verbose is succinct and succinct is the gold standard for your writing this is what

we want to be aiming for verbose writing is often encouraged in other writing systems

in other writing cultures I know for example in Spanish that using as many of these set

phrases is often encouraged especially in academic or in legal or in bureaucratic texts

however with academic English the opposite is true we want to say as much as possible

with as few as many words as we can this is why I say use these with caution because we're

adding words that are not entirely necessary that is we can say the same using less words

often however writing in a succinct style is sometimes not possible for certain students

because they just haven't reached that level yet in which case using these phrases can

be quite useful and it can be -- I don't like saying this but it can be a little shortcut

in improving your work so if you're around a 5, 6, 6.5 perhaps these sentences would

help you a good analogy is that when you've got crutches you know if you break your leg

or your knee or ankle something like that and then you're given those crutches that

go under here and here and you walk like that you're going to be walking and you're going

to reach your destination however your leg if you keep on using these crutches your legs

never get stronger eventually you've got to throw the crutches away these are crutches

these phrases so that's what I'm saying just use them with caution now let's have a look

and use these in action i.e. in a conclusion by the way I forgot to mention that these

we can use them at the end of our paragraphs as well not just at the end of our essay that

there are ways to incorporate these into our paragraphs but once again same rules apply

just be careful you do run the risk of sounding verbose especially if you overload your essay

with these copy/paste phrases so just bear that in mind please use these with caution

let's carry on so imagine we've got the question in some countries people think that women

should have equality with men in particular equal rights to work as police officers or

serve in the army others think that women are not suitable for such jobs discuss both

views and give your opinion so if we're going to use this -- one of these phrases for example

we're going to use returning to the question posed at the beginning of this essay it is

now possible to state that okay women with adequate and thorough preparation are suitable

for some positions historically held by men so we have to adapt the sentence and make

it unique in the fact that it's unique for this essay we cannot say something like returning

to the question posed at the beginning of this essay it is now possible to state that

we have reached a formal conclusion of the advantages of this issue okay this is terrible

terrible terrible writing because there's nothing there that's empty so this is why

you must adapt these sentences and make them correspond to the question or to the topic

of that paragraph otherwise you're not doing yourself any favors you're just wasting

time because you could be writing something that's going to get you points rather than

just copy-pasting these sentences that's not going to pick you up hardly anything okay

so if you need more help with these and if you're struggling with your writing you can

have a look at the online course and there's lots of modules and we don't rely so much

as the phrases but we do have a structure that's much easier to follow so before I make

the analogy of the crutches okay if we keep with this analogy the structure that we developed

and that we teach on the online course is the same as one of those Bionic suits okay

suddenly you've got muscles and you've got power and you can sprint and it's just a lot

easier and so all these obstacles that are stopping you you go straight through them

okay so if that's -- if you feel like you'd benefit from that have a look at the online

course and if you are struggling with your work you can also get feedback on your essays

there at ieltspodcast.com so good luck with your IELTS preparation and thank you for watching

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