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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 
IELTS Writing Task 2: a useful question 
A student asked me for advice about the question below: 
The use of mobile phones in public places is as antisocial as smoking. Smoking is banned in 
certain places, so mobile phones should be banned in the same way. To what extent do you 
agree or disagree?
Here's what the student asked: 
If I regard the part about mobile phones being antisocial as a fact, and only focus on answering 
whether we should ban them like smoking, is that okay? And how can we determine which part of the 
question requires an answer?
What do you think? I'll give you my answer next week. 
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016 
IELTS Writing Task 2: answer both parts 
Last week I showed you the question below, and I asked you to think about which part of the question 
to answer. Hopefully you realised that it would be better to answer both parts. 
The use of mobile phones in public places is as antisocial as smoking. Smoking is banned in 
certain places, so mobile phones should be banned in the same way. To what extent do you 
agree or disagree?
So, let's look at the two statements separately. 
1) The use of mobile phones in public places is as antisocial as smoking.
This is clearly an opinion, not a fact. We can either agree with the view that the use of mobiles is as 
antisocial as smoking, or we can disagree. This gives us the perfect topic for our first main body 
paragraph.