INDEX
A. USEFUL TIPS FOR ESSAY WRITING IN IELTS (AUTHORS' ODYSSEY)
B. WRITING TASK 2 (ESSAYS)
AGREE OR DISAGREE
1. Do you believe in rising up early?
2. Should decisions be made alone?
3. How do bad experiences teach you valuable lessons?
4. Is success due to luck or hard work?
5. Advantages and disadvantages of hostel life
6. Fiction reading versus watching movies
7. Change in leisure activities from past
8. Is traditional music superseded by international music?
9. Positive side and negative side of becoming a leader
10. Importance of newspaper
11. Importance of national costume
12. Has education become an ongoing process?
13. Should primary education be made free and compulsory?
14. Do nursery schools help in children's development?
15. Can computers be used for translation instead of learning a foreign language?
16. Responsibilities of a teacher
17. Influence of classmates and parents on a child's performance
18. Information technology is creating a polarised society.
19. Negative effects of computers on children
20. Effect of modern technology on the agriculture industry
21. Advantages and disadvantages of automobiles
22. Effect of advancing technology on the environment
23. Machine work versus manual work
24. To what extent should creative artists be given freedom of expression?
25. Advantages and disadvantages of the tourism industry
26. Should the public sector be privatised?
27. Should government spend money on weapons?
GIVING OPINION
28. Do you prefer change or not?
29. Should free time be planned or not?
30. Would you spend your leisure time indoors or outdoors?
31. Should one spend money or save for the future?
32. Do you believe in the system of gifting?
33. Do you prefer to take quick decisions?
34. Do you like to work alone or in a team?
35. Watching events live versus on television
36. Would you opt for living in a university dormitory or in an apartment?
37. Importance of hobbies
38. Advantages and disadvantages of keeping pets
39. Love marriage versus arranged marriage
40. Should one marry before 30 or after 30?
41. Dieting
42. Is knowledge of family history needed?
43. Should children prefer watching television over reading books?
44. Should children be sent to school at the age of 6-7 or at the age of 3-4?
45. Is daily homework necessary?
46. Importance of uniform in school
47. City-side people versus countryside people
48. Adventurous versus non-adventurous people
49. Male boss versus female boss
50. Lifestyle and culture becoming similar
51. Positive and negative influences of the host culture
52. Advantages and disadvantages of increased lifespan
53. Importance of sex education
54. Advantages and disadvantages of co-education
55. Learning in the classroom versus outside knowledge
56. Internet education versus school education
57. Should there be separate teaching for intelligent students and weak students?
58. Which is more important from a career point of view, school or college?
59. Should ragging be banned?
60. Should students work while studying?
61. Functions of university education
62. Should university funds be spent on libraries and sports equally? 63. Should university reserve equal seats for males and females?
64. Advantages and disadvantages of being a famous sportsperson
65. Can material success be achieved without talent?
66. Should media focus on good news or bad news?
67. Advantages and disadvantages of keeping video cameras
68. Are you happy with the plan of having a high school in your community?
69. Are you happy with the plan of having a hypermarket in your community?
70. Shopping malls versus small markets
71. Should old buildings be preserved or knocked down? 72. Should smoking be banned at public places?
73. Should the government put restrictions on the number of children a family can have?
74. Should wealthy nations help poorer nations?
75. Universal language
76. Practice of job rotation
77. Should we pay tax?
78. Should child labour be abolished?
79. Should animals be killed for food?
80. Should animal testing be allowed?
81. Should juvenile delinquents be treated like regular criminals?
82. Are you in favour of capital punishment?
83. Should euthanasia or mercy killing be made legal?
84. Human cloning
86. Nuclear power as an alternative source of energy
85. Brain drain
QUESTION TYPE
87. Who makes a better parent, mother or father?
88. Does the father have more influence on the son and the mother on the daughter?
89. Should parents impose strict rules on children?
90. Should children help in doing household tasks?
91. Should children be taught the skill of home cooking?
92. Change in lifestyle of children
93. Youth facing problems due to women working
94. Rich children versus poor children
95. Should youngsters spend excess time and money on shopping?
96. Involvement of youth in voluntary community work
97. Increasing crime among the youth
98. Why are families not as close as they used to be?
99. Qualities of neighbours
100. Bad behaviours of guests
101. Travelling alone or with companion(s)
102. Do people work only for money?
103. Feeling of happiness
104. Need to speak truth
105. Fast food
106. Should traditional skills be preserved?
107. Why do some people go for playing dangerous games?
108. Why do people spend on fashion?
109. Importance of clothing
110. Should media intrude in the private lives of celebrities?
111. Should celebrity opinion be taken seriously?
112. Effect of movies on society
113. The most important room for you in your house
114. An important quality you seek in a friend
115. How will you spend a bulk of money?
116. What one thing would you take on a deserted island?
117. One custom of your country that people of other countries should follow
118. What would a foreigner like or dislike about your city?
119. Big job versus business
120. Job transfer
121. Telecommuting
122. Multiple-job scenario
123. Work stress
124. Should employees be given extra benefits?
125. Qualities of a co-worker
126. Age of retirement
127. Old age homes
128. Generation gap
129. Advantages and disadvantages of mobiles
130. Advantages and disadvantages of computers
131. Positive side and negative side of television and internet
132. Advantages and disadvantages of bicycle use 133. Advantages and disadvantages of modern technology
134. Face-to-face communication versus other means of communication
135. Advertising field
136. Importance of museums
137. Are zoos a good option for keeping animals?
138. Government's responsibility for disabled people
139. Transnational marriages
140. Advantages and disadvantages of international sporting events
141. Increasing size of cities: Reasons and consequences
142. Drug abuse
143. Unemployment: Reasons and consequences
144. Globalisation
145. Outsourcing
146. A less safe world to bring up children
147. Increasing amount of rubbish
148. Road accidents
149. Fresh water problem
150. Space tourism
C. ESSAY OUTLINES
1. Should government support science faculty or regular faculties like commerce and arts?
2. Is the invention of robots fruitful or dangerous?
3. Should children be encouraged to compete?
4. Advantages and disadvantages of aircrafts
5. Effect of violence shown on television and in movies on society
6. Assessment through formal exams or project work
7. How should public transport be encouraged? 8. Why should a country remember its past?
9. Alternative forms of medicine
10. Importance of handwriting
11. Should we save endangered species?
12. Will the internet replace books in the future?
13. Importance of education in development of a country
14. Negative effects of computer games on children
15. Positive and negative effects of frequent change in fashion
16. Changes in students' behaviour
17. Disarmament
18. Overpopulation: Reasons and consequences
19. Advantages and disadvantages of a single currency worldwide
20. Advantages and disadvantages of cashless society 21. Should corporal punishment be allowed in schools?
22. Should financial education be taught to children?
23. Is rote learning a good method?
24. Should one follow his own culture in a foreign country?
25. Why do people have less politeness than they used to have?
26. Should teachers be friendly or strict?
27. Effect of advertisements of fast food and toys on children
28. Positive and negative effects of opting to live alone
29. Social, educational and commercial pressure on children: Causes and measures
30. Is teaching foreign language(s) to children desirable?
31. Should people change jobs at least once in a lifetime or not?
32. Why do criminals commit crime once they are set free?
33. Should government reserve seats for women for higher positions?
34. Should public speaking be taught to children in schools?
35. Should museums and art galleries display artefacts and art only of the country?
36. Giving individual freedom against society's laws and rules
37. Helping the community directly or through organisation
38. Will woman leaders be less violent than men?
39. Should government spend more budget on medical and education fields than entertainment and stadiums?
40. Can people learn a foreign language better in the country where it is used?
41. Long vacation versus several short vacations
42. Is it fair that teachers and doctors get less salary than sportsmen or film stars?
43. Are safety laws necessary?
44. Do modern medicines help one to live long?
45. Is it necessary to spend money on space exploration?
46. Should government give extra facilities to working women?
47. Government education versus private education
48. Do children learn quicker than adults?
49. Forest destruction: Consequences
50. Should women be allowed to join armed forces?
D. COMMON LINES
E. ESSAY VOCABULARY
F. MUST-KNOW WORDS
G. COMMONLY MISSPELT WORDS
H. CONFUSABLES
I. ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1 (GRAPHS, CHARTS, TABLES, DIAGRAMS, MAPS)
J. GENERAL TRAINING WRITING TASK 1 (LETTERS)
K. IDIOMS AND PHRASES
L. PROVERBS AND SAYINGS
