Avoiding repetitions in #IELTS Writing Task 1 - elegantly so 📊

One of my missions in my IELTS Writing classes is to teach students out of the "synonyms" mindset.

There are very few good synonyms for key words in IELTS writing task 1. And we all intuitively understand that repetitions are only fine if there aren’t too many of them.

Solution? As shown in the image above, you can simply not say the key word.

Instead of saying "The rest of the Americans don't celebrate... " you can say "The rest don't celebrate Thanksgiving."

Or instead of "A quarter of the respondents expect to ... " you can say "A quarter expect ... ."

And you have saved yourself a bunch of repetitions of "Americans" and "respondents," which you can comfortably use elsewhere in the answer instead of looking for synonyms.

📊 Screenshot from: Pew Research link.

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