Simon’s ielts writing task 2

5. Mistakes, corrections and improvements
Try to find someone who can check your writing, highlight and explain your mistakes, and show you 
how to improve your essays. 
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015 
IELTS Writing Task 2: strong opinion 
Here's a recent exam question that a few people told me about: 
Some people who have been in prison become good citizens later, and it is often argued that 
these are the best people to talk to teenagers about the dangers of committing a crime.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Let's try writing a 'strong opinion' answer for this question. In other words, we're going to completely 
agree or completely disagree. We're 
not
going to write about both points of view. 
Can you suggest a 4-paragraph 
plan
for a 'strong opinion' answer? 
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Saturday, August 22, 2015 
IELTS Writing Advice: questions with 'strong' words 
Here's a useful question that someone asked me this week: 
Is it possible to give a balanced (partly agree) answer if the question contains a strong word 
like 
best
, 
most
, 
all
 or 
only
?
This is the question that the student gave as an example: 

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The 
best
 way to improve road safety is by introducing stricter punishments for bad drivers. To what 
extent do you agree or disagree?
Can you see the problem with the word 'best'? Either something is the best or it isn't - we can agree 
or disagree, but there's no middle point. So, is there a way to give a balanced answer or to talk about 
both sides of the argument? What do you think? I'll tell you what I think tomorrow.