Hidden task response mistakes you and IELTS Liz make. 

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Comparison of YouTube teachers, AI and Richard elite’s essays, and why using band descriptors helps you win.

Task response ‘what is a lapse? And how do I avoid it?

Agree/disagree essay structure

The third is clearly best, but why? You can see that the first uses procure, which means get, but is it really important to say the same thing as the question?

Actually, it makes no sense. You should say something that introduces YOUR particular essay and reasons because it’s an introduction to your essay. Examiners want to know what you think, not what the question said.

Hidden Mistakes: how to answer health topic agree/disagree questions in IELTS writing task 2″

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It’s here for free because I want you to succeed. You are going to need your money for university and for your dream projects. 

The best use of your time and mine is for you to carefully study these pages and buy essay assessments when you feel you are ready to execute (do) essays properly.

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Trust me when I tell you, your classmates at university are going to be crying over their laptops at 3am while drinking coffee and you’ll have spent the day in London exploring and you’ll be fast asleep, knowing that your essay is correct. I did it at Cambridge and you’ll can do it at, wherever you study.

I suggest doing one page a day, writing one introduction and paragraph (it’s not necessary to write a full essay every day. The logic is in the planning.) 

Hidden mistakes that hold you at 6.5.

The hidden trap is called a ‘lapse’. 

What is a ‘lapse’?

A lapse is a ‘missing part’ of something.

In an essay, it’s a missing piece of your logic.

It means that you haven’t explained your reason for your opinion clearly. 

Vocabulary boost:

Common uses are ‘a lapse in concentration’ or ‘a lapse in serviice’ or ‘a lapse in logic’ (in essays).

This means that when you explain your reason for your opinion, the other person doesn’t think ‘wait why……..? About any part. 

For example: Why do you like Mcdonald’s?

The answer: “my childhood” isn’t complete.

There is a ‘lapse in logic’. 

We want to know why you link the two.

So, a band 9 ‘full answer’ would be “my mom and I used to go to McDonald’s every Sunday for ice-cream, and she would ask me about my week. This was a positive experience because my mom cared about me. Now that she is gone, I still connect McDonald’s to positive feelings.

When you write your paragraph, and explain your reason, imagine that your little brother needs to understand it. It sounds like ‘not high-level English’ but quite the opposite is true. England’s greatest writers all employed simplicity and clarity.   

I’m going to show you one of their essays, no I’ll show you a few, that are full of ‘holes’.

In academics, ‘holes’ are weak points or lapses in logic. 

More physical education lessons would help reduce obesity in the world.

More physical education lessons is the best way to reduce obesity in the world. Agree/disagree

To you, it sounds good. 

It’s from IELTS Liz, so it must be great right?

It’s not terrible, it’s just not very good.

Let me show you why in terms of task response. 

When you agree with the question/statement, you don’t criticise it. 

Critical thinking is the biggest weak point in IELTS and university students. In an essay, your job is to find why we shouldn’t do something. What are the hidden dangers in that situation? 

What’s wrong with the logic?

If you know what’s wrong, you can avoid doing something stupid right?

(Further explanation: if your friend says ‘let\’s jump off that bridge and you say great! You might end up landing on a rock in the river and breaking your leg, or worse. Ask questions before you jump!)

So, can you find the problems, the lapse in logic, in liz’s paragraph?

1. The question asks if this is ‘the best’ way. This essay doesn’t show that it’s the best. You have to show that other methods are inferior in order to do that.
   1. Disagree and show why it’s not the best. This method ignores diet which is the major contributor to obesity due to the high caloric levels in modern food. Etc.
      1. right?
2. This essay says that if kids do exercise they won’t get fat. Well, it doesn’t matter how much exercise you do, if you eat poorly, you are likely to gain weight, and thus exercise less. 
3. The essay says ‘they will develop crucial habits’, like what? We need a specific habit and to know exactly how it reduces obesity in the general public. 
4. The weakest and killer word for your mark and logic at university here is ‘undoubtedly’. Wow, this is like spitting in the streets in university terms. Why are you so certain that a few extra classes are going to solve this problem? Again, food issues negate this argument. 
5. Another huge issue is that the essay does not show how we get from ‘a few more classes’ to a ‘healthy population’ let alone it being the BEST way. 

You should be able to avoid these weaknesses in your work now.

Let me show you a paragraph that disagrees with the question. 

More physical education lessons is the best way to reduce obesity in the world. Agree/disagree

“While exercise is useful, it is only a part of the overall picture of maintaining a healthy weight. Diet plays the largest role in obesity. This is because it is far easier to consume calories than it is to burn them off. It takes many hours of exercise to burn off a large meal, and if someone is eating three meals a day and snacking in-between, the number of hours of exercise needed to maintain balance becomes nearly impossible to hit, especially as we all have busy lives. So, reducing calories is one of the most important first steps, and exercise, while important, is generally ineffective without proper diet.”

*you see how I’m criticising the original statement?

This is what you should do. 

Are there ‘lapses in logic’? 

Not really, I showed one basic point, step-by-step that responds directly to the statement that ‘exercise is the best…..’

My answer, ‘no because……’

You can understand clearly why i say no.

That’s your job on IELTS and university.

Let’s see how Gemini AI answers. 

More physical education lessons is the best way to reduce obesity in the world. Agree/disagree

“The primary reason physical education is the superior solution is its capacity to enforce consistent metabolic activity across the entire demographic. Unlike public health campaigns, which individuals can easily ignore, the school environment is a controlled setting where physical exertion can be made a non-negotiable requirement. This consistency is vital; obesity is the result of long-term caloric imbalance, and the school is the only institution that can guarantee the daily, high-intensity movement necessary to calibrate a child’s metabolism. By making PE the centerpiece of the curriculum, we ensure that the “upgrade” to a student’s physical health is built into their daily routine rather than left to the discretion of their home environment.”

What’s the lapse in logic?

Just because they exercise at school, doesn’t mean they will as an adult.

Secondly, this paragraph does not show that it’s the ‘best method’.

Even AI is wrong. 

Put that paragraph into AI and tell it that it is wrong based on this logic I gave you and you’ll see. 

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Practice and checklist

Question: 

Governments should be responsible for reducing obesity through strict regulation of the food industry, rather than relying on individuals to change their own habits. To what extent do you agree or disagree?”

Checklist

Have you:

Checked the question and what it’s really asking? (It’s not about ‘best’ here. What is the key point to talk about?

Planned so that your logic follows step by step?

Make sure that your essay meets the requirements

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