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this short video discusses the difference between topic sentences and thesis statements when writing academic essays let’s start with a topic sentence as you know topic sentences are the topic of a paragraph each paragraph is a unit in which a single unified idea is discussed the topic sentence is the sentence within that paragraph that declares what the subject is now a topic sentence has certain characteristics first of all it has to declare the topic of a paragraph every other sentence must refer back to the topic sentence in some way a topic sentence must be narrow remember a paragraph is usually somewhere between five and ten sentences long usually a good paragraph is not going to take up more than about three-quarters of a page single-spaced that’s about how much information a reader can hold in their mind at the same time before they start to forget so your topic sentence has to be narrow enough to allow you to discuss the topic at hand but it can’t be so specific that you don’t have anywhere to go or anything to discuss once you stated a topic sentence maybe an argument but it doesn’t have to be an argument again a topic sentence is declarative and finally even though you can find topic sentences pretty much anywhere in a paragraph the most common and most useful place for them is often right at the beginning of the paragraph so let’s take a look at a couple examples of topic sentences look at these two sentences which of them would make a better topic sentence for a paragraph Eugene’s hot temper causes problems at work or this paragraph will discuss my two closest friends go ahead and think about it if you said the first one Eugene’s hot temper causes problems at work you’re right if you take a look at the second paragraph a second topic sentence this paragraph will discuss my two closest friends it’s true that it does declare a topic but there are some pretty big things wrong with it first of all when you’re writing an academic essay you don’t need to tell us this paragraph we’ll do X or this essay we’ll do y instead go ahead and just write and assume your reader is smart enough to see what’s happening the bigger issue though is that it’s really very broad this paragraph will discussed my two closest friends okay what will it discuss about them will it discuss their positive characteristics will it discuss the things that irritate you about them from this particular topic sentence we can’t really even get a tone for the paragraph that’s about to come in comparison Eugene’s hot temper causes problems at work is a much more narrow topic sentence we know that it’s going to be about someone named Eugene we know that it’s going to discuss specifically instances in which his hot temper was a problem and it’s specifically going to talk about problems at work it could be that Eugene has problems everywhere he goes but that’s not what this particular topic sentence is going to do okay let’s try another child abuse is something to think about or learning a foreign language has several benefits which would make the better topic sentence if you said learning a foreign language has several benefits you’re correct the second sentence gives us a much more specific understanding of what to expect in the paragraph to come child abuse is something to think about is rather vague and rather broad what exactly are we supposed to think about that it’s a horrible thing how to stop child abuse how to work to help children involved in child abuse the actual topic of what the paragraph is going to be is a bit unclear in that one in the second learning a foreign language has several benefits we can easily predict what the paragraph will do it will list benefits specifically of learning a foreign language we know right off the bat that it’s going to be a positively toned paragraph so topic sentences are one thing they control your paragraphs they give the idea that you are about to write in those little building blocks but what about thesis statements students are often somewhat nervous when they have to write a thesis statement because honestly these statements are hard thesis statements are probably the hardest thing about writing an essay because they have to do so much in so little space so let’s review what a thesis statement is first of all a thesis statement is very similar to a topic sentence in that it declares the topic of your essay but there are some really specific differences between a thesis statement and a topic sentence first of all a thesis statement must declare the argument of your essay a thesis statement by definition has to be an argument a topic sentence does not thesis statement like a topic sentence is a single sentence a thesis statement is always found in the introduction of your essay unless you’re writing an essay that’s more than about 10 pages long your introduction should really happen on that first page and that’s where your thesis statement should be located your thesis statement like a topic sentence has to be specific to the essay it has to be very very specific for instance you could be writing about the subject of obesity your thesis statement is going to reveal the specific points and topics that your essay will cover most subjects are quite large and everybody will have their own idea about what’s important and what’s not important your thesis statement tells your reader what you is important so that the reader knows what to expect and finally your thesis statement should preview the organization of your essay if you list items a B and C in your thesis statement you should discuss those items or those topics in that particular order so let’s take a look at some examples evaluate the following thesis statement drug use is detrimental to society at first glance it doesn’t seem too bad it’s clearly an argument we know what the topic is it might be a good start but if we think about it a little bit more we start to see some weaknesses first of all what kind of drug use many of you when you hear that where drug use might think about hard street drugs cocaine or marijuana or any number of illegal medications but what if this author is really talking about prescription drug use and how they can be abused if you were a reader expecting an article or an essay about the dangers of cocaine you’d be pretty disappointed if the essay never touched on that particular drug use one way that you can make a stronger thesis is to specify the terms that you’re about to discuss so instead of the very general drug use is detrimental to society we can specifically talk about illegal drug use is detrimental because it encourages gang violence now the topic isn’t necessarily different but in that second thesis statement the reader knows exactly what’s coming we know that we’re talking about illegal drugs and we know that we’re talking specifically about the fact that they encourage gang violence not because they make students say drop out of school anytime you can preview your argument you make for a happier reader think of it this way if you’ve ever gone to the movies and you’ve seen a preview that looks amazing for a movie and then you go see the movie and it’s really nothing at all like the preview you’re really disappointed usually your thesis statement is kind of like your preview you want to make sure that whatever you give in your thesis statement gives your reader a real taste of what you’re about to say in your essay okay let’s do another one pollution is bad for the environment on the surface again this looks great it’s an argument it’s a single sentence it seems to fit all the criteria the problem it’s way too big pollution people have written whole books on pollution what kind of pollution air pollution water pollution noise pollution light pollution each of those are very very different types of pollution and would take a great deal of research and documentation to really discuss in any kind of complexity so how could we fix it again it’s all about being specific to what you want to talk about so because a large portion of air pollution comes from automobiles America’s anti-pollution efforts should focus on privately owned cars it’s not really a different argument but in the second thesis statement your reader knows exactly what to expect I could predict from this thesis statement that the writer would first talk about what portion of air pollution comes from automobiles and then the writer would most likely turn to talking about America’s anti-pollution efforts in the present and what might happen in the future if they are focused on privately owned cars as a reader I know what’s coming and anytime your reader knows what’s coming and can predict your essay appears to be more clear and more effective okay let’s do another one barn owls should be protected okay not bad but always thing even in a decent thesis how can you make it more specific barn owls nests should not be eliminated from barns because the owls help farmers by eliminating insects and rodents it’s a little clunky but we know much more about what we’re talking about we’re not talking about hunting down barn owls we’re not talking about say the pollution effects on their habitats specifically we’re talking about their nests and what’s been happening to their nests that’s going to make for a more specific essay okay last one reducing sugar consumption by elementary students yeah there’s something wrong with that right this particular thesis statement isn’t a complete sentence that ing verb turns it into a fragment so the first thing we have to do is fix that we also want to make sure that we’re being a little bit more specific so more attention should be paid to the food and drug beverage choices available to elementary students but you know what we can get more specific still because elementary students consume nine times the daily recommended allowance for sugar school should replace soda machines with healthier alternatives that last one we know exactly what’s happening in the essay we can predict that the essay is going to talk about how much elementary students actually consumed in terms of sugar it’s going to talk about the soda machines that are already in the schools and then most likely if the essay is doing its job is going to talk about the healthier alternatives so I hope some of these examples have helped you understand how you can take a topic sentence and make it more focused and a thesis statement and make it more specific remember you can never have a thesis statement that’s too specific the goal of the thesis is to give away the ending so that your reader knows exactly what’s coming up

section 4 a walkthrough of the process for rating the critical AC itself for the section of the podcast you should refer to the extract of the question paper which is on sheet 1 as well as example plan on sheet 3 from section 1 you should know that BC KC will consist of sex parts an introduction for main paragraphs and a conclusion let’s look at the first of these elements the introduction an introduction should be simple and succinctly the examiner thought you’re doing and how you intend to do it plan to use just five senses to do so as follows sentence one details for the text sentences two and three a summary of the text sentences four and five a restatement of the task sentence one is best remembered through the action and tag title author genre a genre refers to the type of text as a play a poem an autobiography a novel and so forth here then as a four sentence a fellow as a play written by William Shakespeare the name of the text appears in inverted commas and the author’s name is spelled correctly it will be ashamed to make an error and a very fast lane so remember appropriate punctuation and be sure you know how to spell the author’s name an opening which describes our phthalo by sharks bar would not encourage the examiner the Udacity is going to be one of the high standard the next two sentences should provide a summary of the text keep it tight all you need to do here is state the main events characters and themes here’s an example the text charts the growing jealousy of a general a sailor who becomes increasingly suspicious of and eventually kills his wife Desdemona the jealousy is engineered by the journals trusted aide a a girl who convinces his master of his wife’s deceit that’s it remember keep it tight don’t try to retail all the events of the story the examiner should have some knowledge of the text you’re studying so there is no need to rehash the entire plot section four activity one but each of the tanks you’ve studied craft a perfect to sentence somebody this is something you’ll be able to use in the exam when you have any couple of senses simply learn them and use them an exam itself it would be useful if you could add your sentences as a comment to the critical AC podcast post on our hsn.comm that’s also the first second and third sentences of the introduction the last two senses should be a restatement of the task you’ll be addressing as well as we rate in the task you should mention some of the techniques that you’ll be examining this tells examiner’s what you’re doing but also through the process of rewarding the task reminds you of the demands of the question here’s the question we’ve been looking at choose a plea in which the main character is in conflict with a family member or a close friend or a fellow worker sure how the dramatist creates the conflict and discussed to what extent it is successfully resolved by the end of the play the first sentence is asking you to pick two characters the characters in conflict as I’ve chosen Iago and Cassio I would mention them and also the fact that the success of the conflict that allies upon secrecy here’s the sentence hyukoh carries a secret conflict against a thalers lieutenant Michael Cassio Fane the second part the task is ask you to show how Shakespeare engineers the conflict and whether or not things are sorted by the conclusion of the text there’s a stock freeze you can use for opening the sentence it has ever been chosen to see how successfully here’s the second sentence it would be interesting to see how successfully Shakespeare through his manipulation of techniques such as plot and characterization constructs this conflict and how it is settled by the final scene sex of the four activity to have equality wanting the tasks from the ex tie to the question paper for the second part you can use a stock flees ever been facing to see how successfully when you’re feeling confident try to find your own alternative to this Feliz thus she concluded introduction here is the completed version a phthalo as a play written by William Shakespeare the text charts the growing jealousy of a general a fellow who becomes increasingly suspicious of and eventually kills his wife Desdemona the jealousy is engineered by the generals trusted aide a legal who convinces his master of his wife’s deceit Ayaka carries out a secret conflict against her fills lieutenant michael cassio ever bein chasing to see how successful is shakespeare through his manipulation of techniques such as plot and characterization constructs this conflict and how it is settled by the final scene this introduction does everything it needs to it lets the examine all what takes your examining and fought a particular aspect of the writer’s craft you will be discussing the key here is obviously to keep things simple the main paragraphs will example it takes to close a deal the second element of your AC is the mean or payer paragraph paired as an acronym point evidence analysis relate to tasks this forms the skeleton for each of you mean paragraphs the peer structure helps you to present a reasoned argument with supporting evidence the most important part is a analysis at hire it is a depth of the analysis which determines overall mark you would receive this is a simple structure a higher however you would probably expand it to generate more complex paragraphs with sustained arguments but this Amin the foils t of one main point for the paragraph you might repeat the evidence and analysis steps so the paragraph becomes point evidence analysis some more evidence further analysis relate to task as you become more confident with the basic structure you would know don’t want to alter it to suit your own writing style let’s break at the pier structure down if you want a more detailed walkthrough of the pier process listen to the appendix podcast which contains this information alongside an example paragraph P or point is the first sentence or couple of sentences this will normally nor to the question mention the author mentioned one or two luxury techniques and highlight the section of the text you’re focusing upon the section you focus upon is the appropriate key event you have jotted down in the plan E or evidence as the next part of the paragraph the best kind of evidence is an appropriate quotation from the text if you’ve been revising using a sequencing sheet you would probably have a handful of quotes to sum up each of the key events if you don’t have a quote Bank this is something you could work on before the exam you should try to lead them to the courtyard using don’t simply plunk it down onto the page a leaden freeze might mention the author or the character for example Shakespeare tells us how good of use that Desdemona can finding an amelia declares if you can’t remember course and then the stress of Examiners possible you should try an accurately gloss which means briefly summarize the key event either way you should be sure to mention the characters involved and the context in which the court appears tell the reader briefly what is happening II or analysis is where you’re answering the question the purpose here is not to be what the key event you’ve chosen but to show its relevance in answering the question many promising higher critical aces make the mistake of merely showing hokey events are important to themes of the text rather than how they’re important to the question itself for example in the first paragraph of the plan examining the opening scene of a fellow Shakespeare creates the conflict through characterization showing us a gross personality and motivation as well as plot foreshadowing tragic events to come try not to rely on one simple point instead you should make a number of length points which expand upon an initial idea the rational point which opened your paragraph remember also to use critical terminology the terms which are outlined in the box and the questions people and the author’s name like seasoning through your analysis this prevents your lapsing into storytelling our order late as a quick sentence to close your paragraph this would just be a restatement of what the author’s achieved in relation to the particular point you made in the opening of the paragraph a better relate sentence would link in some manner to the next point you’re making a good plan allows you to do this it is easier to like one paragraph to the next if you have a good idea where your race is going Zach should forward activity 3 in all you have 8 minutes for each of your paragraphs this gives you a perfect activity for your vision which takes your knowledge of your text rather than rating entire basis you should try rating time paragraphs in response to AC questions from past papers pick a question from the extract of the question paper or a past paper quickly to say Dan one key event you would rate about kept yourself just eight minutes to rate a paragraph and be sure that responds to the task and the expiry lovin points about the texture picked at the end of the time you should review the paragraph and look for a point that contains the author’s name some critical terminology and the reference to the section the texture focusing upon an accurate quote in inverted commas which is led into an analytical of we a number of develop points in relation to the task and as succinct concluding sentence if you completed these peer paragraphs and small sheets of paper or even post cards you can soon build up a useful store of revision cards paired paragraphs that not only describe what happens in a text but fatally how the author has achieved a particular effect the third and final element of your critical AC is a conclusion you plan allows for three minutes for this the purpose of the conclusion is to summarize all your main points and to succinctly as possible provide your response to the question this should actually be rather straightforward merely harvest the ideas from your point and relate sentences and rewarding them if necessary length them together into a coherent argument the only other thing to remember to do is to mention the author’s name in your summation after all without the author they’ll be no texture study and no critical a sitter eight you mate at this stage be dreaming of such a situation hopefully however this podcast has helped you with your critical AC skills and at the very least stopped you worrying quite so much about how to tackle this part of the exam good luck you

Higher English Critical Essay Workshop — Four: Writing the Critical Essay

section 4 a walkthrough of the process for rating the critical AC itself for the section of the podcast you should refer to the extract of the question paper which is on sheet 1 as well as example plan on sheet 3 from section 1 you should know that BC KC will consist of sex parts an introduction for main paragraphs and a conclusion let’s look at the first of these elements the introduction an introduction should be simple and succinctly the examiner thought you’re doing and how you intend to do it plan to use just five senses to do so as follows sentence one details for the text sentences two and three a summary of the text sentences four and five a restatement of the task sentence one is best remembered through the action and tag title author genre a genre refers to the type of text as a play a poem an autobiography a novel and so forth here then as a four sentence a fellow as a play written by William Shakespeare the name of the text appears in inverted commas and the author’s name is spelled correctly it will be ashamed to make an error and a very fast lane so remember appropriate punctuation and be sure you know how to spell the author’s name an opening which describes our phthalo by sharks bar would not encourage the examiner the Udacity is going to be one of the high standard the next two sentences should provide a summary of the text keep it tight all you need to do here is state the main events characters and themes here’s an example the text charts the growing jealousy of a general a sailor who becomes increasingly suspicious of and eventually kills his wife Desdemona the jealousy is engineered by the journals trusted aide a a girl who convinces his master of his wife’s deceit that’s it remember keep it tight don’t try to retail all the events of the story the examiner should have some knowledge of the text you’re studying so there is no need to rehash the entire plot section four activity one but each of the tanks you’ve studied craft a perfect to sentence somebody this is something you’ll be able to use in the exam when you have any couple of senses simply learn them and use them an exam itself it would be useful if you could add your sentences as a comment to the critical AC podcast post on our hsn.comm that’s also the first second and third sentences of the introduction the last two senses should be a restatement of the task you’ll be addressing as well as we rate in the task you should mention some of the techniques that you’ll be examining this tells examiner’s what you’re doing but also through the process of rewarding the task reminds you of the demands of the question here’s the question we’ve been looking at choose a plea in which the main character is in conflict with a family member or a close friend or a fellow worker sure how the dramatist creates the conflict and discussed to what extent it is successfully resolved by the end of the play the first sentence is asking you to pick two characters the characters in conflict as I’ve chosen Iago and Cassio I would mention them and also the fact that the success of the conflict that allies upon secrecy here’s the sentence hyukoh carries a secret conflict against a thalers lieutenant Michael Cassio Fane the second part the task is ask you to show how Shakespeare engineers the conflict and whether or not things are sorted by the conclusion of the text there’s a stock freeze you can use for opening the sentence it has ever been chosen to see how successfully here’s the second sentence it would be interesting to see how successfully Shakespeare through his manipulation of techniques such as plot and characterization constructs this conflict and how it is settled by the final scene sex of the four activity to have equality wanting the tasks from the ex tie to the question paper for the second part you can use a stock flees ever been facing to see how successfully when you’re feeling confident try to find your own alternative to this Feliz thus she concluded introduction here is the completed version a phthalo as a play written by William Shakespeare the text charts the growing jealousy of a general a fellow who becomes increasingly suspicious of and eventually kills his wife Desdemona the jealousy is engineered by the generals trusted aide a legal who convinces his master of his wife’s deceit Ayaka carries out a secret conflict against her fills lieutenant michael cassio ever bein chasing to see how successful is shakespeare through his manipulation of techniques such as plot and characterization constructs this conflict and how it is settled by the final scene this introduction does everything it needs to it lets the examine all what takes your examining and fought a particular aspect of the writer’s craft you will be discussing the key here is obviously to keep things simple the main paragraphs will example it takes to close a deal the second element of your AC is the mean or payer paragraph paired as an acronym point evidence analysis relate to tasks this forms the skeleton for each of you mean paragraphs the peer structure helps you to present a reasoned argument with supporting evidence the most important part is a analysis at hire it is a depth of the analysis which determines overall mark you would receive this is a simple structure a higher however you would probably expand it to generate more complex paragraphs with sustained arguments but this Amin the foils t of one main point for the paragraph you might repeat the evidence and analysis steps so the paragraph becomes point evidence analysis some more evidence further analysis relate to task as you become more confident with the basic structure you would know don’t want to alter it to suit your own writing style let’s break at the pier structure down if you want a more detailed walkthrough of the pier process listen to the appendix podcast which contains this information alongside an example paragraph P or point is the first sentence or couple of sentences this will normally nor to the question mention the author mentioned one or two luxury techniques and highlight the section of the text you’re focusing upon the section you focus upon is the appropriate key event you have jotted down in the plan E or evidence as the next part of the paragraph the best kind of evidence is an appropriate quotation from the text if you’ve been revising using a sequencing sheet you would probably have a handful of quotes to sum up each of the key events if you don’t have a quote Bank this is something you could work on before the exam you should try to lead them to the courtyard using don’t simply plunk it down onto the page a leaden freeze might mention the author or the character for example Shakespeare tells us how good of use that Desdemona can finding an amelia declares if you can’t remember course and then the stress of Examiners possible you should try an accurately gloss which means briefly summarize the key event either way you should be sure to mention the characters involved and the context in which the court appears tell the reader briefly what is happening II or analysis is where you’re answering the question the purpose here is not to be what the key event you’ve chosen but to show its relevance in answering the question many promising higher critical aces make the mistake of merely showing hokey events are important to themes of the text rather than how they’re important to the question itself for example in the first paragraph of the plan examining the opening scene of a fellow Shakespeare creates the conflict through characterization showing us a gross personality and motivation as well as plot foreshadowing tragic events to come try not to rely on one simple point instead you should make a number of length points which expand upon an initial idea the rational point which opened your paragraph remember also to use critical terminology the terms which are outlined in the box and the questions people and the author’s name like seasoning through your analysis this prevents your lapsing into storytelling our order late as a quick sentence to close your paragraph this would just be a restatement of what the author’s achieved in relation to the particular point you made in the opening of the paragraph a better relate sentence would link in some manner to the next point you’re making a good plan allows you to do this it is easier to like one paragraph to the next if you have a good idea where your race is going Zach should forward activity 3 in all you have 8 minutes for each of your paragraphs this gives you a perfect activity for your vision which takes your knowledge of your text rather than rating entire basis you should try rating time paragraphs in response to AC questions from past papers pick a question from the extract of the question paper or a past paper quickly to say Dan one key event you would rate about kept yourself just eight minutes to rate a paragraph and be sure that responds to the task and the expiry lovin points about the texture picked at the end of the time you should review the paragraph and look for a point that contains the author’s name some critical terminology and the reference to the section the texture focusing upon an accurate quote in inverted commas which is led into an analytical of we a number of develop points in relation to the task and as succinct concluding sentence if you completed these peer paragraphs and small sheets of paper or even post cards you can soon build up a useful store of revision cards paired paragraphs that not only describe what happens in a text but fatally how the author has achieved a particular effect the third and final element of your critical AC is a conclusion you plan allows for three minutes for this the purpose of the conclusion is to summarize all your main points and to succinctly as possible provide your response to the question this should actually be rather straightforward merely harvest the ideas from your point and relate sentences and rewarding them if necessary length them together into a coherent argument the only other thing to remember to do is to mention the author’s name in your summation after all without the author they’ll be no texture study and no critical a sitter eight you mate at this stage be dreaming of such a situation hopefully however this podcast has helped you with your critical AC skills and at the very least stopped you worrying quite so much about how to tackle this part of the exam good luck you

hello in this lesson I’m going to show you how to write an introduction paragraph for your IELTS writing task 2 essay now this is the essay title we’re going to look at the best way to improve health is to do regular exercise to what extent do you agree well let’s first look at the statement now I also have given us this which is the best way is a method it’s a solution and it’s a solution to improving health so our essay is all about improving health and their solution their best solution is to do regular exercise so that is what IELTS have said that’s the statement and we have to give our opinion to what extent do you agree now what does this mean to what extent well that means how much do you agree you don’t need to agree or disagree you can’t need to think about it and think do you agree with all the sentence is there something you don’t agree with do you agree with most of it so that’s how you analyze it right well let’s have a look at what information we need to put in our introduction now for many academic essays there are three parts to the introduction there’s the hook there’s a background statement and there’s a thesis statement so let’s look at each part of this the first one the hook now a hook is a center that has lots of interest in it so that immediately the reader wants to continue and we use that in many essays but do we use it for IELTS essays the answer is no we don’t need it let me explain why firstly the examiner is not looking for interesting ideas interest is not assessed in your IELTS essay so if your introduction is interesting or boring it makes no difference secondly another reason that you don’t need the hook and that is you don’t have much time you have a total of 40 minutes and in those 40 minutes you need to analyze the statement plan your essay and at the end of your essay when you finish you need to check it so really you only have about 35 minutes to write that essay there is not enough time to worry about having a hook that the examiner doesn’t want anyway so forget the hook the next thing the background statement what is the background statement the back row statement basically is this statement paraphrased so I’ll just put her paraphrase the statement so IELTS give you a statement you need to paraphrase it which means you need to write it again with the same meaning but use your own language I know that many students think they can just copy that but that will not help you for your essay if you copy those words they are not yours and the examiner will not take them so please don’t copy the sentence just paraphrase it and the next thing is the thesis statement the thesis statement is your answer so how much do you agree you need to answer that and it is an introduction to your ideas so we’ve got two parts to the introduction we’ve got paraphrasing the statement and giving our answer introducing our ideas so just those two parts and in this lesson I’m going to show you how to write them let’s start with the background statement so we need to paraphrase this sentence here now they start with the best way and we need to paraphrase that well the word way is a solution it’s a method so solution method you could use both words I’m going to use method and the best another way to say that I would use the most effective method so let’s write that down and the next one to improve health we need to paraphrase that a little bit health we cannot improve but we couldn’t we could paraphrase the word improve so the most effective method in developing and improving health so let’s just see what I’ve done here firstly I’ve added an extra word and I’ve added this to show IELTS that I can paraphrase and I understand the meaning I’ve added this word because I still like it I still think it’s a very good word to use for this sentence but they say improve I say improving this is also paraphrasing I’m using the same word but a different form of the word so I’ve taken the word and I’ve changed it a little bit this is very good for IELTS so it means you don’t have to change the word completely you can just change the form of the word so the most effective method in developing and improving health now we need the next bit they say is to do I will say is considered to be it’s considered to be so I’ve changed this part for considered to be and now we’ve got regular exercise now exercise I want to keep I don’t want to use sport because Sport and Exercise are not really the same thing Sport is a game often it involves a team it involves equipment exercise is something you can do on your own it’s not a game it’s just some movements so I want to keep the word exercise but that means I want to change the word regular so I could say daily it’s not exactly the same but it’s more or less the same I could say frequent that’s quite similar but for this essay I’m gonna say daily it’s considered to be oops daily exercise now I have finished my background statement so this sentence and this sentence has the same meaning but I’ve used different words I’ve altered it and this is my background statement to start my IELTS essay let’s have a look now at writing the thesis statement this is probably a little bit more difficult so how do we start the thesis statement well our thesis statement do you remember it’s our answer and the question is to what extent do you agree so this question is asking for my opinion now the examiner is looking for your answer so I want to show the examiner my answer and I want to help him or her find it easily and to do that we can say in my opinion now when we start the thesis statement with that for that question it means that the examiner can see that find the answer that’s great that is a good organized logical academic essay for IELTS so in my opinion now do we agree or disagree well I want to agree I really think that exercise is the most important way to gaining health I really believe that I think maybe there are other ways there are more things we can do but I think exercise is very important so I’m going to agree so in my opinion I whoops let’s write it correctly I agree that exercise is the key to have so that is nice and clear very clear answer but do I want to stop here my thesis statement is also a chance for me to introduce my ideas now am I going to write an essay that is only about exercise well to be honest I don’t want to write more than 250 words only about exercise it’s very useful to have some more relevant but different ideas so I’m going to add a little bit more to this essay and I’m gonna say however I also believe sorry let me write that believe that diet is important so by doing this I have introduced a new solution to health and that is diet I’m not saying it’s the key it’s not the most effective but it is important so I agree that exercise is the key but I also think that diet that means what we eat is important now you can see that I have written two sentences for my thesis statement it is possible to have two sentences or you could have one and you could link these together in a better way that’s up to you right well let’s have a look at the whole introduction together and here is the finished introduction the background and the thesis statement together the most effective method to developing an improving health is considered to be daily exercise in my opinion I agree that exercise is the key to health however I also believe that diet is import now let me give you some tips so that you can practice writing your introduction at home the background statement this should have the same meaning as the statement given by IELTS do not copy the IELTS statement you need to paraphrase it to use different language with the same meaning so for example IELTS said the best way and we say the most effective method you don’t need to change the words fully for example I out say improve and I have written improving you can keep the word and change the form of the word for the thesis statement that is your answer and an introduction to your ideas it is an agree disagree essay that means an opinion essay and I have put in my opinion so that the examiner can find it quickly and easily that is the key to a good academic essay logical organized easy to read my answer is clear I agree that exercise is the key you can see another paraphrase the most effective way the key lots of paraphrasing and I have also added another solution so that I can have different main points so I’ve added about diet now my thesis statement has two sentences that’s fine but if you want to connect it and make one long complex sentence you can you can change this part and connect them together so that’s your background on your thesis statement how many words does your introduction need to be how long should the introduction be well this is about 35 words and that’s fine usually your introduction for IELTS will be between 35 and 50 words I don’t really recommend that you write more than 50 words 50 55 don’t go further because you don’t have a lot of time and you must arrive quickly to the body paragraphs and you need time to write the body paragraphs to develop the idea to support the ideas so don’t spend too long on the introduction now if you found this lesson useful please press like and share it with your friends that would be wonderful now I hope you will practice writing the introduction at home make sure that you practice the background statement it’s the easiest part of the whole IELTS I think just paraphrase the statement you can practice and practice if you don’t have many IELTS essay titles please visit my blog I have more than 100 for you to practice my blog is wwl is calm also the thesis statement this is more difficult to write because you need your answer ready and you need your ideas ready so you need to look at the essay title plan your answer and practice giving your answer clearly in that way well that’s all for this lesson good luck keep practicing and I’ll see you again in 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