Grammar for ielts fiona Aish & Jo Tomlinson ■L& 11

• What they are like
• How often you see them
• Why they are particularly im portant to you
And say in what ways you would like to be sim ila r to them.
I'm going to ta lk about my grandm other on my fa th e r’s side. She is little quite and has 
w hite hair and glasses. I have glasses too. We are the only people in the fam ily that wear 
glasses! She is very old now and I don’t get to see her very often ... I th in k I maybe two 
or three tim es a year see her. She lives quite far away in the countryside. It takes us 
about three hours to travel there. W henever we visit, she always gives to me sweets. She 
is im portant to me because she is so kind and so nice, and really I love her. She is my 
favourite fam ily m em ber definitely! I th in k I take a fte r her in some ways. We laugh at the 
same things and we both like reading. When we go and visit, always we go out w alking in 
the fields and have a really lovely tim e. My dad always says that we are very sim ilar. I would 
like to be when I am older as wise as her. I would also like to have a s im ila r life. A very 
successful career she had. She was a doctor and w orked fo r charities. She was very much 
in love w ith my grandfather, w hich I th in k is lovely.
Exam tip: 
Always allow tim e to edit your w ork, especially in the W riting exam. Noticing 
and correcting details like punctuation and word o rder (as w e ll as spelling and 
gra m m a tica l structure) can improve your score dram atically.
Grammar for IELTS
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Unit 6
4
Correct the mistakes in the word order and punctuation in the following sample essay.
"Rich and famous people are increasingly adopting children from developing countries. This
has overwhelmingly negative effects." Do you agree with this statement? Why?
Adoption has long been a com m on thing yet there a recent trend has been in adopting 
children from overseas. This trend has been noted in the media as more and more 
celebrities have adopted children from oth e r countries. Some people th in k th is is a 
negative thing, but I think that on the w hole the effects positive of this outweigh any 
negative repercussions as I sh a ll go on to show.
Firstly, adopting from other countries raises the awareness of a countrys plight. Seeing 
fam ous people adopting children from countries like cambodia means that cambodia is in 
the news more and people can find out w hat there is going on. Also, these children move 
to ric h e r countries and can te ll people about th e ir native country raising awareness on a 
s m a lle r scale.
Secondly, these children may w e ll not be adopted unless people come from overseas to do 
it. A happy life in another country is surely bette r than an unhappy life in the country where 
a person was born. The new country w ill give more opportunity the child and a fam ily that 
they may not get if they were to stay in the orphanage
However fo r the children to retain th e ir cultu re it is im portant. There is a danger that this 
m ight not happen if they move to another country. Therefore there should be a rule that 
the adoptive parents allow the child to revisit th e ir home country and retain th e ir original 
culture.
In conclusion, I th in k the personal adoption benefits gives a child and the awareness that 
can be raised from these adoptions fa r outweighs any negative factors, such as change of 
culture.