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hello in this lesson we're going to look

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at the official writing paper that you

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will use to write your writing task one

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report and your writing task 2 essay in

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the IELTS test this is the official

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IELTS paper here and I will explain to

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you in this lesson why you need to

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practice writing with this paper and how

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you need to fill it in when you have

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your test so let's have a look at why

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it's important to practice writing using

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the official writing paper the main

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reason to practice writing using this

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writing paper is mainly because of the

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word count now in the tests for writing

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task 1 you need to write a hundred of 50

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words or above you shouldn't write under

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a hundred and fifty words now the

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examiner is going to check how many

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words you've written and in the test you

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don't have time to sit and count how

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many words you have written but what you

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can do is you can download this paper I

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will give you a link at the end of the

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lesson you can download the official

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writing paper and you can practice

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writing on this paper and when you

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practice writing you will see how big

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the paper is and more or less how many

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words you will write for your writing on

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each line you can also start checking

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how many lines and how much space you

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usually take to write 100 or 50 words

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and that will save you a lot of time and

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a lot of worry when you're in the exam

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and of course another reason that you

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need to practice with this paper and

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practice your hand right

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a lot of students are typing on a

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computer rather than handwriting but in

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the test you need to use a pen and paper

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so what you need to do is practice make

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sure that you do not go over the lines

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keep your handwriting clear and easy to

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read

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if the examiner cannot read what you

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write you can't get a very good band

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score and of course just avoid any

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surprises now let's have a look at how

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to fill in this writing paper at the top

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of the answer sheet you've got some

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information that you need to fill in at

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the start of your test and the

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information is your candidate name your

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candidate number at the center number

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now this information you will be given

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when you go to your IELTS test center

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you also have to fill in the date so

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don't forget that

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but a very important part is this and

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this is just above the beginning of the

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writing paper we've got two boxes and

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we've got academic or general and that

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means which IELTS test are you taking

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there are two IELTS tests for writing

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there's the academic writing paper and

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the general writing paper and you need

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to tick and choose which one you're

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doing so for example the academic after

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that you've got the writing the lines

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down here we have an area where the

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examiner can write some comments down

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there and information over the back

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we've got more lines and at the bottom

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here this is where the examiner is going

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to write in your band score the examiner

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has four criteria now we've got task 1

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task

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- these are the four criteria got task

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achievement or task response coherence

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and cohesion lexical resource and

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grammar this is your information and

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your ideas your answer this is your

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structure and your organization your

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vocabulary and your grammar and the

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examiner will write a band score for

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each one and after that you will get a

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complete band score for your whole

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writing test and at the side here there

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is some more information that the

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examiner is going to write down and you

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can see this is the information that the

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examiner is going to check the first one

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is under length so that means the number

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of words the examiner will check how

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many words you've got if you are under

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the word count so you've written less

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than 150 for task 1 or less than 250 for

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task 2 and also he will make a note if

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you are going to have a penalty of

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punishment for having too few words also

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the examiner will check if your writing

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is off-topic and that means it is

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irrelevant and not following the topic

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also if you have any memorized answers

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in your writing any memorized language

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now I know there are some teachers that

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tell you to memorize a piece of writing

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for example a paragraph don't do it the

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examiner will check to see if there is

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something memorized in your writing and

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of course the examiner will also check

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if your handwriting can be read if your

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handwriting isn't clear that's a problem

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and may be a reason for a very low band

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score

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I think it's really worth you

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downloading this writing paper and

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practicing and just having a look at the

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information that's on there so here is a

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link so that you can download this

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answer sheet and if you would like any

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more IELTS lessons then please just

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follow this link here and you will be

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able to get some more writing task 1 and

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writing task 2 lessons well that's all

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for this lesson I'll see you in another

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IELTS lesson

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you