Simon’s ielts writing task 2

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FROM SIMON:
I'm glad you like the essay guys! 
In the comments above, students have expressed confusion about the phrases below: 
- to achieving 
- there do seem to be 
- it is no doubt true that 
- difficult to describe (the student suggests using the passive 'difficult to be described') 
These are not mistakes. Can anyone explain why? 
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Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 17:12
 
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 
IELTS Writing Task 2: five ideas, five sentences 
Last week, my students and I (here in Manchester) looked at a question about the positives and 
negatives of credit cards. You can see the full question 
here
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Nowadays it is easy to apply for and be given a credit card. However, some people experience 
problems when they are not be able to pay their debts back. In your opinion, do the 
advantages of credit cards outweigh the disadvantages?
Here's our plan for a paragraph about the negatives of credit cards: 
1. encourage spending money that people don't have 
2. leads to excess shopping, consumer culture 
3. more credit cards, debt becomes out of control 
4. bankrupt, in court, lose home 
5. sometimes fines or even prison 
We wrote a 5-sentence paragraph using these 5 ideas. I'll show you our paragraph next week, but 
can you use the same ideas to write your own? 
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Wednesday, October 01, 2014