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Useful vocabulary
1. Reformed offenders
2. They can also dispel any ideas
3. often indifferent
4. The vivid and perhaps shocking nature of these..
5. be useful in terms of informing teens
6. reluctant to take advice from figures of authority
7. as credible sources of information
8. deter teenagers from committing crimes.
Thanks
Posted by: Biks | Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 09:19
Reformed offenders can say reformed persons?
We use 'any of' before a pronoun or a noun with a determiner, so these three sentences are correct:
I don't have any ideas about this topic.
I don't have any idea about this topic.
I don't like any of the ideas in this book.
See this site: http://www.perfectyourenglish.com/usage/any.htm
Posted by: pete walton | Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 19:02
@ Pete Walton
Thanks
Posted by: Nee | Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 20:11
thanks for advice
Posted by: mujib | Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 01:23
I have noticed a variety of useful words and phrases:
ex-prisoners = reformed offenders, reformed criminals, after serving a prison sentence
teenagers = young people, adoescents, teens, students
Best wishes.
Posted by: Giang | Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 03:31
Thank you all the time, Pete! Perfect explanation!
Posted by: James Z. | Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 03:48
While indifferent to guidance ........keen to hear
Posted by: Giang | Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 04:19
HI simon,
If the question type is " do you agree or disagree"
can I still write a balance option essay?
Best,
Lucian
Posted by: Lucian | Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 14:32
Deryck,
Yes, you can partly agree. Look at this lesson:
http://ielts-simon.com/ielts-help-and-english-pr/2014/12/ielts-writing-task-2-agree-disagree-or-partly-agree.html
...
Lucian,
Yes, the question uses "YOU", so you will almost certainly need to use "I" or "MY" in your answer.
Posted by: Simon | Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 19:28
Dear Simon,
I am not able to think for supporting ideas about following topic, can you please help me out!!
Some people think that both travelers and business people have same attitude to local people and the traditions of countries they visit. Do you agree or disagree with this
statement? give your opinion.
Posted by: Nisha | Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 02:14
Hi simon,
In essays like this, is it allright to use the first person "i" ? When do we know if essay needed is strictly academic? Please enlighten me. I really enjoyed reading your posts.
Posted by: Elaine | Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 02:38
Hi Simon,
Thank you for your support.
Could you please evaluate my performance in the given task?
"Some people who have been in prison become good citizens later, and it is often argued that these are the best people to talk to teenagers about the dangers of
committing a crime.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?"
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After serving their prison sentence,some criminals become good citizens.Whether to present such people as clear examples which illustrate the hazards of committing a
crime to young people,or not, is a debatable and interesting subject.In my opinion, I think it is a good idea to give the opprtunity to those criminals, who became good
citizens,to orient young esters about the dangers of committing a crime, for many reasons.
First and foremost, each criminal has a unique experience, and each is best one to tell about own experience, in order to impress young people,which is far better than
giving advices to the young. Therefore such criminals, who became good citizens,how they gain bad behaviour, what the motivation of committing crime was.Thus, young
people learn how to avoid bad behaviour.
Secondly, and most imprtantly, those mentioned good citizens, who were originally criminals,can illustrate to young people that criminal will be inevitably arrested
wherever one escapes. Thus, each one will talk to teenagers about how he was arrested, which is, definitely, a bad experience. In addition, and what is more painful, is
what criminals experience during the prison sentence, as they lose their freedom. Therefore,, despite being a painful event, it is beneficial to tell young people about
prison sentence, in order to warn them against committing a crime.
Finally, these criminals, who became good citizens, are role models for young people who do illegal actions, as those who behave badly may give up doing such offences.
To conclude, criminals who succeed to become good citizens after serving prison sentence, are the ideal ones who should warn teenagers against committing a crime.
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is the sentence correct or not?
Thanks in advance.
Posted by: Swati | Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at 10:10
Hi Simon,
My privet teacher said to me it is better that the second paragraph is near to your idea in conclusion, however,in this writing it is not.
I wonder if what could be the best ?
Thanks
Hope that you can reply to make every thing clear for me.
Thanks
My second main paragraph is arguing against the alternatives. Notice that I write a "but" phrase after each alternative to explain why they would not be effective. In this
way, I'm still agreeing with the question statement - I'm not partly agreeing.
Thanks.
Posted by: Livia | Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 07:33
Livia,
It might be best to learn the whole phrase "one option would be for x to..." without trying to understand it word by word. You could consider this to be a 'fixed phrase'.
In other words, rather than looking at this from a grammar perspective, you could learn it as a vocabulary item. Then, the best way to understand the phrase is to see it
used in various different contexts. Here are some examples from a Google search:
This helps a lot! Thank you Simon, you are the best!