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IELTS Worksheet
📝 Essay Practice Planner
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After this worksheet you can
Plan an essay in 5 minutesIdentify a thesis quicklyApply the self-mark checklistChoose supporting examples📚 Quick Recap
🎯 What you'll practice: A quick planning drill for one of the five Task 2 essay topics, plus the self-mark checklist.
🧠 Section A · Concept Check ● BEGINNER 4 × 1 = 4
1How many essay topics are given for practice?
2Each essay should be written under:
3Self-marking uses how many criteria?
4Minimum words per essay:
🧮 Section B · Planning Drill ● INTERMEDIATE 2 + 3×3 = 11
5Practising untimed builds bad .
6Essay topic 3 compares public transport investment to .
7Choose one of the five topics and write a one-sentence thesis statement for it.
8List two supporting points you could use for that thesis.
9Name the four self-mark criteria in order.
🚀 Section C · Challenge ● CHALLENGE 5
10Why does self-marking with the real four criteria (rather than just checking grammar) give a more accurate picture of your essay's likely band score?
💭 Reflection — the most useful thing I learned:
A ___/4 B ___/11 C ___/5 Total ___/20
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1-B 2-B 3-C 4-C | 5 = habits 6 = roads 7 = (student's own thesis) 8 = (student's own two points) 9 = Task Response, Coherence & Cohesion, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range & Accuracy | 10 = Because grammar accuracy is only one of four equally-weighted criteria — an essay can be grammatically flawless but still score low if it doesn't fully answer the question (Task Response) or if ideas aren't logically connected (Coherence & Cohesion); checking against all four gives a realistic, examiner-style picture rather than a one-dimensional grammar check.