Discussion Essay
In this guide, you’ll learn how to answer IELTS writing task 2 questions that ask you to discuss both points of view before giving your opinion. This type of question is often confused with an agree/disagree question or a give your opinion question. In the latter types of questions, you can choose an opinion and generate your arguments. However, for a discuss both views + give opinion question, you have to discuss both points of view impartially before giving your own view.
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Essay#48 | Global Warming
Should the international community do more to tackle the threat of global warming?
Essay#46 | Violence
Many people believe that increasing levels of violence on television and in films is having a direct result on levels of violence in society. Others claim that violence in society is the result of more fundamental social problems such as unemployment.
Essay#14 | Advances in Science and Technology
Advances in science and technology and other areas of society in the last 100 years have transformed the way we live as well as postponing the day we die. There is no better lime to be alive than now.
Essay#13 | A dream job
The most important consideration when choosing any career or job is having a high income.
Essay#12 | Environmental Issues
Most people do not care enough about environmental issues.
Essay#11 | Value of Money
Very few schoolchildren learn about the value of money and how to look after it, yet this is a critical life skill that should be taught as part of the school curriculum.
Essay#9 | Gap Year Before Starting University
Many students choose to take a gap year before starting university, to travel or gain work experience.
Essay#8 | Unemployment
Some people argue that the government should give every unemployed person a mobile phone and should make sure they have access to the Internet.
Essay#7 | Healthcare
In many societies in the world, the population is ageing rapidly and this is leading to an unsustainable increase in the cost of public healthcare.
IELTS Sample Charts (IELTS Academic Writing Task 1)
IELTS Writing Task 1 – Academic
The Writing Task 1 of the IELTS Academic test requires you to write a summary of at least 150 words in response to a particular graph (bar, line or pie graph), table, chart, or process (how something works, how something is done). This task tests your ability to select and report the main features, to describe and compare data, identify significance and trends in factual information, or describe a process.
IELTS Writing Task 2 (IELTS Sample essays)
IELTS Writing Task 2 requires you to write at least 250 words. You will be presented with a topic and will be tested on your ability to respond by giving and justifying an opinion, discussing the topic, summarizing details, outlining problems, identifying possible solutions and supporting what you write with reasons, arguments and relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
The assessment of Task 2 carries more weight in marking than Task 1. Writing scripts are marked by trained and certificated IELTS examiners, who all hold relevant teaching qualifications and are recruited as examiners by the test centres and approved by British Council or IDP: IELTS Australia.