Simon’s ielts writing task 2

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012 
IELTS Writing Task 2: parents or schools? 
One of the questions in Cambridge IELTS book 8 asks who should be responsible for making children 
into good citizens: parents or schools? 
Here's a paragraph I wrote about this topic:
Parents play a huge ______ in their children’s lives, and shoulder more of the ______ for their 
upbringing than school teachers do. Before starting school, infants spend the first four or five years of 
their lives with their mothers and fathers. During those ______ years, parents teach their children vital 
skills and habits, such as the ability to speak, eat and behave. Parents are the major role ______ for 
young people, who copy the behaviour that they see on a daily ______ at home, and it would be 
wrong to expect schools to ______ a greater influence than the family. 
Task:
Can you guess what words I used in the spaces? 
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FROM SIMON:
These are the words I used, with a few alternatives in brackets: 
1. role (part) 
2. responsibility (burden) - singular is better than plural 
3. formative (early, preschool, important, crucial etc.) 
4. models 
5. basis 
6. exert (have) 
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Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 09:40
 
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 
IELTS Writing Task 2: video games 
Yesterday's listening exercise was about the topic of video games. This could also be an IELTS 
writing topic, so let's think about how we could prepare for it.