and today I'm going to give you some useful phrases you can use

in your academic writing task 2. Well,

as you know, academic writing task 2 is a little bit

more broad more general in terms of topics

so you have to be able to use a variety of vocabulary

related to different topics, however, here are some useful

linking phrases you can use with any topic

given. Usually, in task 2 you analyse a topic

by discussing about the advantages

or the disadvantages or both so here are some useful phrases

you can use when you describe, when you discuss about

advantages. Okay so if you're going to talk about

for more than one advantages you can begin the first paragraph of the main

body like that

the first advantage of

this is something

for example you can say the first advantage of... I don't know

exercising is the fact that you can keep

fit, the fact that we keep fit alright?

another way to say the same thing would be there are many advantages to

exercising and one of them is keeping

fit, alright another way of stating an advantage

and of course if you want to talk about results

at the same time would be the positive aspects

of are... the positive aspects of exercising are

keeping fit; losing some weight

et cetera et cetera you can put anything there

or you can use you can also use the positive points include

okay if you want to state more than one advantages

you can use the phrase another positive

aspect is

another benefit is or

another advantage is of course I give you all these options

in order for you not to use the same words

all the time and of course if you're talking about

a topic that the advantages are more than the

disadvantages you can state it

in this way; the benefits or the advantages are far more than the disadvantages

Now, let's see some useful phrases

you can use when you discuss about disadvantages

okay when you state disadvantages you can use the same

phrases that we already talked about in the advantages

section but of course you can change your vocabulary so let's check

them out

if you're talking about the first

disadvantage you're going to argue about in your first paragraph

of the main body you can start the paragraph by saying

the first disadvantage of smoking for example

is that it is bad for your health

other phrases would be there are many negative aspects and one of them

is that it is bad for your health

the fact that it is bad for your health you choose your phrasing

the drawbacks of smoking are

instead of saying disadvantages

all the time or you can also say the negative points

include if you are going to state more than one disadvantage

you can say another disadvantage is

or one of the major disadvantages is the fact that

smoking is very bad for your health also

if you want to talk about results you can put it this way

a negative consequence of smoking is...

many illnesses that are associated with it

for example

again you can you can change these phrases

anyway you like according to what you're talking about

and of course if there is a topic that the disadvantages

outweigh the advantages you can state it

in this way just an example the disadvantages

are far more than the positive aspects or the advantages

in this case okay and now last but not least let's see some useful phrases you

can use

to express your own personal opinion on the topic

of course there are various ways you can state your opinion but here

are the most common ones

you can say in my opinion never forget

the commas after these phrases

so in my opinion from my perspective coma

in my view, from my point of view, taking into account

or taking into consideration the fact that

smoking is bad for your health I firmly believe that

the governments should take measures

et cetera et cetera or you can also say

I strongly agree or I strongly disagree with the view that

exercise should be you know

compulsory let's just say I am just giving you examples here randomly

so try to use these phrases now in your writing and you will see that these

phrases will instantly help you express your views better

and what is more your writing will greatly

improve

ok that's it for today, I hope it helps for questions and comments here

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