The first time you see an IELTS Writing Task 2 question, these may be your common thoughts:

“I don’t know anything about this topic!”

“What should I write???!!!”

“Oh no! My mind is blank!”

“What’s this all about?!”

To help you overcome this problem, I decided to make a tutorial answering recent IELTS task 2 questions seen by students all over the world.

In this tutorial:

• I breakdown each of the question, suggest IELTS essay answers, then organise them into paragraphs.


• You will learn how to answer difficult Task 2 questions, generate ideas and get full points for each paragraph.

The formula I use in the entire tutorial is similar to the one I teach on the online IELTS course “Jump to Band 7 or it’s Free”.

On this online course, we have 16 exercises to solve this exact issue:

After watching the tutorial, you can send your answers to us for FAST feedback and improvement.

We see students improving EVERY DAY, and regularly getting IELTS essay answers after completing this idea generation exercise.

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1. Nowadays consumer goods have become the most important part of people’s lives. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

Ideas for body paragraph 1

– Advantage: Understandable – a car – can be the most important if you need it for work, family etc Advantages are mobility, freedom, independence…  

Ideas for body paragraph 2

– Disadvantage: When you fawn over a new product, it has been said the product owns you rather than you owning the product.

– Example: expensive phone, you are constantly worried about the screen smashing, or leaving it on a table, or in a taxi — the worry associated can be stressful. 

Conclusion

– Although it is understandable they are vital components of modern life, it must not be forgotten, that our lives are so much more than consumer durables.

2. Some people say that protecting the environment is the government’s responsibility. Others believe that every individual should be responsible for it. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

Ideas for body paragraph 1

– Yes: Government’s responsibility

– Policies govt could do, then country specific example

Ideas for body paragraph 2

– Yes individual responsibility also

– Action individuals could take + examples. 

Conclusion

– MY OPINION: Such a mess, such a disastrous state, such a shame, so much so that all parties need to step up and take responsibility for the state of affairs we have landed ourselves in. 

3. Some people are fond of buying new gadgets, phones, or laptops. Is this a good or bad thing? Discuss your opinion.

I can write it’s an entirely bad thing, or I can write it’s an entirely good thing. 

Ideas for body paragraph 1

– Good: New tech, drive innovation, tech development, job creation etc.

– Example: new investment in tech to stay competitive – Sony – manufactures new chip plant in Korea for PlayStation 5. 

Ideas for body paragraph 2

– Bad: Consumerism, waste, unnecessary, planned obsolescence

– Example: Research showed searches for the phrase “slow iPhone” peaked a few weeks before the launch of new iPhone models. This is an extremely worrying development because people might be manipulated into buying new gadgets, and finding an exaggerated happiness in their new products. 

Conclusion

– Pros and cons: I think in the past it was fantastic, nowadays with the environment in such a dire state consumerism needs to be upgraded somehow.

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