My IELTS Classroom Podcast

Advanced Essay Skills - Avoiding "people"!

July 13, 2021 Shelly Cornick and Nick Lone
My IELTS Classroom Podcast
Advanced Essay Skills - Avoiding "people"!
Show Notes

One way to significantly improve your IELTS Coherence and Cohesion score is to avoid using "people" unnecessarily in your essay. If you can do this, you will find that your writing will be more concise, and you may even be able to pick up points for topic-specific lexis! Find out how to in today as Nick and I recover from England's football defeat!

You can read more about today's episodes at:  https://blog.myieltsclassroom.com/ielts-coherence-and-cohesion-score/

In this episode, we will

  1. show you how to replace "people" with more precise nouns
  2. discuss when you can just delete "people" 
  3. explain how to use the passive voice, gerunds, and noun phrases to replace "people" in more complex sentences 

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