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#IELTS Writing Task 1: "This sounds awkward." 📊

"This sounds awkward" is a comment I sometimes have to give to my students. I know it's not very helpful. But sometimes what students write looks so awkward I don't know how to even begin to explain ...

So I wrote a paragraph in Russian to illustrate.

Касаясь пианино, дети учились играть в количестве 30% - то, что понизилось до 27% в 2016 году. Скрипко-играние было менее популярно: в 1996 году 14% будущих музыкантов сделало этот выбор однако двадцать лет спустя скрипка упала до числа 10%. Цифра акустической гитары оказалась на уровне 6%, но спустилась к финальному завершению данного рассматриваемого периода до 2% - они выбирали этот вид гитары меньше всего среди всех.

Even though the language is Writing Task 1 type of language, the paragraph is just a hodgepodge of awkward mistakes and collocations.

In our native language, the awkward phrasing is obvious even when we can't explain why every single case is awkward.

In English, getting the hang of Writing Task 1 language might take time, effort - and meticulous research.

But if you don't invest in this, you might end up writing something that's just... awkward. And "awkward" can't take you above Band 7.

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