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Please write an essay describing some of the
environmental problems that the world faces today and
suggesting ways in which we can protect natural
resources so that they can be used by future generations.
Cite relevant examples where you can.
Reading the question 1- what do we have to write about?
This is a fairly typical IELTS Type 2 assignment that centres on
a topic that frequently features as a topic in this module of the
Test – the environment. On your first word you should underline
the most important topic words. When we do that here it will
look something like this:
Please write an essay describing some of the
environmental problems that the world faces today and
suggesting ways in which we can protect natural
resources so that they can be used by future generations.
Cite relevant examples where you can.
So let’s list what we have, then we can look more closely and
order them in terms of primary and secondary importance.
Environmental problems
Protect natural resources
Future generations
So we have a fairly straightforward task here. Remember that
on your first reading of the essay question you should always
look for key nouns/noun collocations. The phrase that
indicates the main subject of the essay, or the primary topic is:
Environmental problems
Now let’s see how we can order and under and understand the
secondary topic words and phrases in order to understand what
aspect of the topic we have to write about. The secondary topic
words will usually contain a verb or verb collocation – in other
words, something that is actually happening in relation to the
noun subject. So let’s look for this is our secondary topic
indicators:
Protect natural resources
Future generations
Once again, it is fairly easy to understand what we are being
asked to write about here. The key verb is protect, specifically,
protecting natural resources – the things that nature provides
us with in order for us to live on the planet.
Reading the question 2 – what type of essay are we being
asked to write?
Two words offer an important indication of what type of text we
are being asked to produce here – problems and suggesting.
The former noun indicates that we need to describe some
things that are wrong, and the verb here tells us that our essay
needs to suggest some measures that may help to solve them.
Summary: Question analysis
We are being asked to write a problem and solution type
essay about environmental issues. A simple plan will look like
this:
Introduction – tell the reader that your text is about the
environment in your opening sentence. Introduce some
ecological issues that you think are important and relevant. Tell
your reader that your essay will describe these problems in
more detail and also offer some ideas on things that may
address them.
Body paragraph 1 – feature two to three problems Describe
why they present a problem to the international community and
threaten the sustainability of human life on the planet. Use
examples of these problems – for instance, you could point to
the melting of the polar ice caps in the Artic, the loss of the rain
forest in large parts of the Amazon or the terrible pollution that
afflicts cities and urban areas in developing countries such as
China.
Body paragraph 2 – the aim of this paragraph is to offer your
reader suggestions in order to make the environment better –
remember that you must address the question directly, which
means stating how to protect and conserve resources. This
paragraph is the place in your essay to do that, so its tone
should be positive and upbeat. You also need good examples
of how conservation is taking place and environmental
problems are already being addressed, things such as the wide
scale development and use of sustainable energy sources such
as solar power in China, the international cooperation signalled
by the signing of the Paris Climate Change Accord that seen
most of the world’s nations agree to cut their carbon emissions
or the incredibly successful recycling campaigns in nations
such as Taiwan.
Conclusion – link back to your body paragraphs, restate how
pressing the problems with the environment outlined in body
paragraph 1 are and how solving them is important to all
nations – large and small, rich and poor. Now refer to the things
that you have suggested in body paragraph 2, state how if such
measures are implemented they will serve to conserve and
protect resources for future generations.
Remember to address all aspects of the question when you
write. Refer forwards and backwards to the points contained in
your essay in order to build coherence and convince your
reader to agree with your line of argument.
Brainstorming – synonyms and vocabulary
Environmental problems
Environmental issues, environmental blights, unstainable
technologies/practices/energies, environmental/ecological
depletion, environmental/ecological degradation.
Protecting natural resources
Conserving, conservation, resources, sustainable energy
sources, renewable energy sources, environmentally friendly
technologies/energy sources, conservation programmes.
Future generations
The future, people as yet unborn, well into the next century, in
future decades, our grandchildren.
Quick collocations
Familiarising yourself with any collocations associated with the
topic of your essay is fundamental to success in Type 2 writing.
So getting to know phrases and terms used in magazines such
as The Economist means that you use them in your own
righting to say the right thing in the right context with the right
grammar.
This short exercise aims to introduce you to some of the
common collocations that we use when talking about the
environment.
For instance - endangered species
The increasing degradation of many rain forest habitats has
resulted in orang o tang becoming an endangered species.
Now link the words numbered 1 to 12 with those labelled A to L
in order to form collocations that are often used in order to
describe the environment. Answers are below.
LIST 1
1) Eco
2) Genetically
3) Waste
4) Global
5) Bio
6) Environmentally
7) Greenhouse
8) Air
9) Sustainable
10) Renewable
11) Food
12) Green
LIST 2
A) Recycling
B) Warming
C) Friendly
D) Modified
E) Chain
F) System
G) Issues
H) Pollution
I) Development
J) Diversity
K) Gases
L) Technologies
SOLUTION
1) Eco - SYSTEM The phrase that we use the ECOLOGY of
any given environment and the plants and animals that live
there.
2) Genetically MODIFIED. The scientific ability to breed plants
of animals that have certain characteristics.
3) Waste RECYCLING. When we keep the material used for
making something in order to use again.
4) Global WARMING The name given to the rise in the earth's
temperature over the past century or so.
5) Bio DIVERSITY Is the term that we used the wide variety of
plants and animals that live in a particular place or area.
6) Environmentally FRIENDLY. That's how we describe
something or someone that preserves or improves the
environment.
7) Greenhouse GASES are produced by burning HYDRO-
CARBON fuels such as coal, oil and gas. These are thought to
cause the GREENHOUSE EFFECT that results on GLOBAL
WARMING.
8) Air POLLUTION is caused by activities like cars and
industry. It is the name given to anything that CONTAMINATES
the air that we breathe and makes it more difficult for our lungs
to function normally.
9) Sustainable DEVELOPMENT is how we describe economic
activity thatdoes not harm the environment that it takes place
in.
10) Renewable TECHNOLOGIES take their energy from the
environment that they operate in. They include things like
WIND, SOLAR and WAVE power.
11) Food CHAIN is the phrase that we use to describe how
humans, plants and animals source their food. Most of the
things that we eat are at the very end of a complex FOOD
CHAIN.
12) Green ISSUES is the general category that all of the things
above can be described as. Anything that relates to the
environment is a GREEN ISSUE. So in this exercise we can
say thattopics such as GLOBAL WARMING, AIR POLLUTION
and RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES are all important GREEN
ISSUES that are human beings have to cope with.
If you have any problems, please contact your tutor – that
is what I am here for! Good luck.
CHRIS LEACH 2016
※ 引述《niu66 (niu)》之銘言：
: 我是3/12 台大二活報考
: L:7 R:7 W:7 S:6 Band:7
: ------------------------------------------------
: 我去年10月下定決定要去英國念書，因為我不喜歡念書時間拖很久，
: 所以我決定先專心把學校要的資料準備完成，而這些竟然準備起來就花了很多時間...
: (因為不想申請太多學校很焦躁,而且還一直對我男朋友發飆...)
: 準備時間應該算3個月，但真的有感覺是我付了報名費的當下。
: 真的良心建議如果自己底子其實不會到太差的人，準備時間不要拉太長...
: 時間緊迫自己會更鞭策自己，尤其看到戶頭瞬間噴了6000大洋時，
: 不唸好像很對不起自己坐辦公司努力賺錢而犧牲走樣的屁股
: 建議大家可以換個作息，我都早上5點起來念書，每天10點睡覺。
: (畢竟下班不一點準時，賭爛的事情又很多...很難靜下來，反之5點很安靜很快就能專心)
: 既養身，也不用擔心考試當天睡眼惺忪XDD
: 我是公立大學中文系畢業，但因為之前有去新加坡做過地勤，所以對怪口音英文接受很高
: 回台灣後擔任國外業務助理，學生時代考過多益7XX(久到忘了...)。
: 因為我考試前一周公司忙著在世貿參展，晚上還要跟客人吃飯...
: 最後一周衝刺周所有mail等著處理，偏偏還發燒...就這樣一路燒到考完的後一天orz
: 能有這樣的成績我整個大淚奔~~~所以想跟大家分享一些我覺得好用的書!!!
: -------------------------------------------------
: Listening
: 其實就如同版上各強人分享，先看題目!!!
: 動詞跟名詞一定要大大圈出來
: 要先有心理準備speaker 80%會用"同義詞"來表示!!!
: 這樣的練習反覆多次之後，part 4就變得很輕鬆
: 平常的時候要有聽廣播的習慣，我認為對短時間的人來說戲劇並不適合
: 因為你需要的是可以增加知識&速度&適應英文的環境
: 我很建議一個app < English radio >
: 我最常聽就是裡面的ted & BBC news ，基本我通勤跟健身房都會一直聽
: 而且他會一直播不同的事情，你都不用再花時間想要聽什麼 (考生的時間很寶貴低~)
: Reading
: 我覺得就是兩件事
: 多讀
: 快讀
: 平行閱讀法我也看過，是很好的一個基本概念，讓你大略了解到你會面對的題型有哪些
: 有了初步概念後，就是不斷地讀~ 讀讀~~ 讀讀讀~~~
: 我每天工作前一定看BBC news頭條&亞洲新聞
: 2天會做一篇閱讀並檢討 (劍7~9& 9分達人)，並且測時間控制在15~18分內
: 一個小建議: 把不會的單子(尤其動詞)抄成一句話在筆記本，你才會知道怎麼使用他
: 標題、文章第一句、最後一句話 這些會在我看題目前先掃過給自己一個準備
: 了解題目問的是什麼? 大大圈出重點主詞(人名年分)&動詞
: 再來就是一段一段看
: 看到,&, 解釋某個人或事情，先()起來，把句子看完了解再回去看。
: Writing
: 我要大大感謝我的家教Chris
: 因為我的學校要求writing 6.5↑我一度以為我辦不到...
: 其實真的不需要很難的單字或困難的文法...
: 版上介紹的Simon我也拜讀過 真的是太厲害 看似太簡單
: 可是這樣的簡單裡面卻藏了非常多的小細節，沒有長時間閱讀跟練習寫作背景，很難達成
: 我介紹一本(家教推薦的書)一步一步讓你Writing進步的書
: <Ielts advantage writing skills>
: 其實重點就是台灣學生的文章邏輯看似沒連貫，但這個是可以克服的，一起step by step!
: 我個人認為家教有兩個好處
: 一、不用出門(Chris住在英國，是個有口音的記者伯伯喔)這可以節省很多通勤，
: 尤其我家在林口...
: 二、超stressful!!每次我交作業300字，Chris給我回快500字。我都覺得我作業
: 是不是寫的不認真。 而且Chris都會為各別的學生量身寫講義，超怕自己犯了同樣的錯誤
: 剛開始會有點抓不到自己的盲點，但是漸漸你就會抓出英文的邏輯跟中文真的很不同。
: 尤其他每次都會塞超多講義叫我念，一兩周沒念完你也會覺得很對不起他，
: 而且Chris介紹的書大多是British council 的老師寫的，或他認為在writing很厲害的人
: Speaking
: 我實在沒什麼臉建議大家...
: 像我這種沒什麼準備，就是多講!!! 介意大家可以使用Engoo/Eikaiwa
: (其實同個公司，可以看日幣匯率決定當月用哪個付錢)
: 每天25分鐘練習，良心建議菲律賓老師!!!(推薦Phine他總是很仔細聽你的文法問題)
: 因為他們比很多歪國人會教英文跟注意你的文法
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: 以上，是我這三個月的小小心路
: 祝大家考到需要的成績，要煩心的事還很多，加油!!!
: 書籍:
: 劍7~劍9 (建議大家做到10，我是沒時間...)
: 平行閱讀法
: Ielts Advanced Writing skills
: OG
: 9分達人雅思閱讀真題還原及解析
: APP:
: English radio
: Ted
: BBC News
: 英漢字典(離線辭典)
: 家教:
: Chris: [email protected]
: (1000/HR 十堂好像變8000)
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