are going to look at 9 band 9 verbs you can use in your IELTS writing task today this

tutorial is divided into 3 parts first, we look at the verbs then I will explain why

they are band 9 this is quite interesting this useful to help you advance with your

IELTS writing thirdly, we look at examples of these verbs in IELTS sentences in IELTS

essays and this is really valuable because unless you get the context of the verbs then

you could be making a very serious mistake which is forcing the verb which I'll go

into in more detail in a minute of 9 band 9 verbs we have hinder, weaken, translate,

intensify, debate conceive, break, delegate, and lobby now some of these verbs have different

meanings for example I can say break as in I broke my arm yesterday and that's probably

around A2 or band 4 or 5 level now if I were to say that the media broke the story yesterday

then in that context with that usage then it's a C2 interestingly with these 9 verbs

the first four of them are extremely valuable for 3 types of IELTS task 2 questions the

3 types of questions are discuss both views give your opinion and advantages and disadvantages

and the reason why these verbs are useful are because they lend themselves very naturally

to these types of situations so hinder is to limit the abilities so if we're discussing

the disadvantages we can say that new government regulations for road safety drastically hinder

the effectiveness of logistics transport companies for example can you see or new government

regulations drastically weakened the effectiveness of logistics companies so just random examples

there but they lend themselves very useful for these types of essays the other one, translate,

is very useful because it's quite versatile we can say government resistance for new regulations

translates into a lack of enthusiasm and ultimately a lack of protection for the environment so

translate is very versatile we can use it in lots of different essays now the other

ones have to be used with more caution except conceive conceive, we could definitely use

when we're saying discussing both views when it's give your opinion because conceive is

imagine and I'll give you examples about how we can use these verbs in IELTS sentences

in a second how do I know that these are band 9 and this is really interesting because there's

no other IELTS tutor that I know of who is doing this and it is quite easy I think as

you probably know IELTS is owned by 3 organizations it's owned by the IDP, British Council, and

Cambridge English language assessment those 3 organizations Cambridge English language

assessments are the experts who decide about the language criteria they deal with all the

language aspects of the test not all but pretty much most of it and these IELTS band scores

correspond to the common European framework for reference which is basically the European

Union's version of the band scores except they don't go from band 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

7, 8, 9 they go from A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 now as you can see from the chart a C2 correlates

directly to a band 9 I mean not directly but there is a correlation there now if we click

on the verbs that I told you before and if we click using the Cambridge English language

dictionary remember this is the organization responsible for the criteria of the exams

or partly responsible for the criteria we find that the verbs that I give you the verbs

that I gave you correspond to certain levels here we go let's click on hinder I've got

it linked into the Cambridge dictionary we go there and what would you see look C2 C2

level and as I said before it's to limit the ability of somebody to do something you can

see that C2 look at that C2 to intensify to become greater more serious more extreme and

this is the case with all of them I think most of them are C2 now don't be confused

here it says B1 but the meaning that I was giving you okay is C2 to change something

into a new form okay so all of these are C2 or at the very very worst C1 okay so conceive

pretty certain like as a verb C2 debate now debate as a noun is B2 debate as a verb discuss

in a formal way C2 you see hinder okay hinder limit the ability of something abandoning

dated school buses would most likely hinder any efforts to improve road safety around

schools the main reason is that if each parent brings their own child the traffic around

schools would be horrendous so we can see here it's used correctly and it sounds very

natural and likewise disregarding a detailed list of activities for a free day would most

likely hinder any efforts to obtain the full potential of the said free day now in both

cases it sounds natural we could use these in the body paragraph we could easily use

them in the middle or the beginning because it would be a strong start to the body paragraph

but nevertheless, they're still useful and they're still valid it depends on your writing

style I think it would be good actually to use these at the beginning of the body paragraph

in a second in a minute I'll give you an example of a bad example I'll give you an example

of a bad sentence to use at the beginning of your body paragraph let's have a look at

the next one weaken cause something to be less strong hopefully you'd have spotted the

similarity between this sentence and this one okay so in this case they are interchangeable

but in this one it's not interchangeable at all and it's as I've noted here it's grammatically

perfect but it sounds forced okay so this one same as before abandoning dated school

buses would most likely weaken any efforts to improve road safety around schools the

main reason is that if each parent brings their own child the traffic around schools

would be horrendous so exactly the same as before here disregarding a detailed list of

activities for free day would most likely weaken any efforts to obtain the full potential

of the said free day weaken any efforts why does it sound unnatural because there is not

a strong force or movement or group of people or any effort for that matter of people like

actively promoting that do not make plans for free days okay so this is why it sounds

forced okay and the way you start to spot verbs or words that are forced into sentences

is by improving your language skills so it almost becomes natural that something sounds

off or that it sounds unnatural and this is a long process to get to that ability however

if you're writing for IELTS if you can find more lists and more examples then it's going

to speed up your learning curve or it's going to speed up your advancement or your

learning regarding academic writing it's going to speed it up considerably let's have a look

at translate abandoning dated school buses would most likely translate into congested

and dangerous roads around the school furthermore the air quality could only worsen translate

yeah it's quite straightforward this is very useful to have this verb the reason is it's

because it's quite versatile i.e. you could use it in a lot of different essays the other

ones but these ones you could probably use in the discuss both views and your opinion

and advantages and disadvantages quite easily whereas this one you could use in most essays

okay because it's basically saying this means this which is an essential part of your paragraph

because it's you developing your argument and your position now second example disregarding

a detailed list of activities for a free day would most likely translate into a sloppily

organized day replete of spontaneous distractions and unforeseen costs this is writing rather

aggressively okay because there's no doubt in the reader's mind after reading this

about my position on this issue and the issue basically was you know should you plan your

day or should you leave it to be spontaneous without planning and replete by the way is

a very good word it means full of spontaneous distractions okay a day full of spontaneous

distractions and unforeseen costs let's move on intensify this is my favorite so abandoning

dated school buses would most likely intensify any road safety or pollution issues the school

district might already be facing so here it just makes it to become stronger it intensifies

these issues okay now once again I can't use intensify because there's no real sort of

like issue around unplanning or not planning a day okay so once again this is why the list

is very useful if you want to start using these and also examples and as I said before

on the online course there are lots of lists and examples to help speed up the learning

process to help you to get you writing better you're going to improve your writing faster

let's go debate to discuss in a formal way those who debate in favor of abandoning school

transport may have forgotten important issues such as air quality, road safety, and dual

income families and you see so in this way I've used it more as argue in favor of okay

and once let's see this one again not really suitable because there's no real debate here

yes there is no -- you cannot imagine two groups of people arguing whereas in this case

you could easily imagine a group of parents arguing with another group of parents saying

bring back school buses no each to their own everyone's got their own way of transporting

of transport so this is why debate well this is why some verbs are more suitable or more

useful than other ones here well as you saw before we could definitely use hinder, translate

we can but we could definitely use some of the others for the free activities essays

now final one conceive here this is just let me share a useful spelling rule and that's

'I before E except after C' you probably know that already anyway it is difficult to

conceive any benefits of abandoning school transport okay I won't go into it anymore

into more detail but here what I wanted to say is that two things this is a useful word

because we're talking about opinions we're talking about the advantages and disadvantages

or we're talking about discussing both views so here it's quite versatile we can conceive

of the views of that question we can conceive both views can you see how it's much more

versatile than some of the other ones so conceive is definitely useful and as we saw before

this is C2 level which equates to band 9 second point if we were starting the body paragraph

like this it is it would be terrible -- well not terrible but it's just not good form and

the reason why is because it creates reader strain I'm going a bit off-topic now but

it's useful it creates reader strain because I have to wait until the middle of the sentence

until I find out what this object pronoun refers to this is why I put those dots and

this is why this sentence we couldn't use it as the topic sentence to introduce the

body paragraph or to start the body paragraph we would use the 'it 'in the middle of

the or would use 'it' later on in the body paragraph when it's clear what the 'it'

refers to and it would be useful to use 'it' because it would improve our cohesion and

coherence score because we don't have to keep repeating the issue that we're talking about

we can just refer to it as 'it' so this is why if we do start a sentence with an object

pronoun it's better when it's crystal clear what that object pronoun is referring to next

one here it is difficult to conceive any benefits to planning a valuable free day perhaps a

more optimized schedule but the stress of okay so here it's quite versatile again so

this is why it's quite useful there we go 9 band 9 verbs for your IELTS writing task

now my recommendation is that you start using these words in your IELTS essay use them today

get familiar with these words write out some example sentences and get some feedback if

you do want some feedback have a look at ieltspodcast.com we've got an essay correction service there

it's 24 hours so you can improve fast and personally I think the best way to improve

is by getting feedback and getting guidance now there are 3 things I want you to do before

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