WEBVTT 00:01.350 --> 00:09.780 OK so now we're going to move into part number two of the general letter analysis and we're going to 00:09.780 --> 00:13.800 be taking a look at the keys to success. 00:13.800 --> 00:14.100 Right. 00:14.100 --> 00:18.970 A lot of students ask me many times why I want to get 8. 00:19.080 --> 00:20.700 I want to get a 7. 00:20.910 --> 00:26.150 Well it's important that you understand what are the keys to getting that 7 or getting that 8. 00:26.610 --> 00:33.450 And so I'm going to review a few of those things and is really to really understand this is not really. 00:33.510 --> 00:35.550 It's one thing to read. 00:35.880 --> 00:38.070 Well this is what you need for a need. 00:38.070 --> 00:40.210 This is what you need for a 7. 00:40.230 --> 00:43.710 What really matters is how well do you apply that. 00:44.280 --> 00:47.870 How will you apply those requirements for a 7 or 8. 00:47.970 --> 00:58.680 And that's why the focus of the course that I teach is so focused on application application of theory 00:59.160 --> 01:04.520 application of strategy application of these keys to success. 01:04.560 --> 01:06.140 That's what's important. 01:06.210 --> 01:08.120 That's what you need to be able to understand. 01:08.310 --> 01:10.270 That's what you need to be able to do. 01:10.710 --> 01:11.250 OK. 01:11.640 --> 01:16.920 So we're going to take a look at some of the keys to success here in this second part of our lecture 01:16.920 --> 01:21.480 series on task one general letter. 01:21.700 --> 01:22.030 Right. 01:22.030 --> 01:28.720 So as I said we're looking at the keys there is the lock and we need the keys to open the lock to your 01:29.200 --> 01:30.790 success. 01:31.230 --> 01:34.780 I know that's a little corny but it's true. 01:34.930 --> 01:35.820 Right. 01:36.340 --> 01:40.450 A lot of you are walking around with locked doors and you're looking for the keys to success and I'm 01:40.450 --> 01:42.220 going to give them to you. 01:42.790 --> 01:43.090 Right. 01:43.090 --> 01:51.620 So part number one for keys to a high score make sure that you addressed all the parts of the question. 01:51.790 --> 01:53.920 Every part of the question. 01:54.140 --> 01:54.680 Right. 01:54.700 --> 01:57.510 A lot of times people don't do that. 01:58.060 --> 01:58.930 They address. 01:58.930 --> 02:02.140 Point number one in three sentences. 02:02.140 --> 02:08.170 Point number one in one sentence you have to address address all parts of the question and do it with 02:08.410 --> 02:11.300 the right purpose and the right tone. 02:12.130 --> 02:17.750 And I'm going to talk about that a little bit more in the park in the next lecture. 02:18.040 --> 02:22.740 In terms of tone and language coherence is very important. 02:22.930 --> 02:27.400 You have to have proper paragraphs as you heard in the first lecture. 02:27.550 --> 02:30.160 You have to have you have five parts. 02:30.160 --> 02:33.480 Right those are five separate parts. 02:33.590 --> 02:34.380 All right. 02:34.570 --> 02:37.930 Cohesion deals the logical sequence. 02:37.930 --> 02:42.740 You can't talk about part number three before you talk about part number one. 02:42.820 --> 02:44.390 You can't talk about Point 2. 02:44.410 --> 02:47.640 Before you talk about point number one. 02:47.680 --> 02:54.080 Things have to go in the logical sequence the logical order the logical progression. 02:54.470 --> 02:55.150 Right. 02:55.450 --> 03:00.090 You have to be able to keep my attention on the point being covered. 03:00.450 --> 03:07.090 If we if you're bringing my attention to point number two don't talk about Point number three keep my 03:07.090 --> 03:09.050 attention on Point number two. 03:09.250 --> 03:12.470 Address that clearly right. 03:12.490 --> 03:15.200 Have a great vocabulary. 03:15.370 --> 03:21.560 That means no errors no errors in spelling no errors and word choice. 03:21.580 --> 03:24.000 Make sure you use synonyms language. 03:24.190 --> 03:28.240 Don't repeat yourself like a broken record. 03:28.480 --> 03:36.930 Now in terms of collocation collocation is great if you're working on a informal letter. 03:37.270 --> 03:42.410 If you're working on a formal letter no collocation leave it alone. 03:42.950 --> 03:44.570 OK. 03:44.900 --> 03:55.300 Grammar using a range of vocabulary or by a wide range of vocabulary different sentence structures compound 03:55.300 --> 04:04.090 sentences complex sentences conditional sentences correlative conjunctions use simple sentences in terms 04:04.090 --> 04:11.230 of sentence length your formal letters are going to have longer sentences than your informal letters. 04:12.100 --> 04:18.870 Make sure that your foundation and your basics are strong in terms of grammar. 04:19.090 --> 04:25.900 People that get great scores are able to write grammar mistakes they have no grammar sentences they 04:25.900 --> 04:31.620 have no grammar mistakes. 04:31.930 --> 04:37.850 Make sure that you like I've said earlier and it may sound like I'm repeating myself sometimes when 04:37.870 --> 04:40.270 I'm talking about these different points. 04:40.270 --> 04:46.890 I'm doing that for a reason because some people need to hear things in a different type of way. 04:46.900 --> 04:52.250 Sometimes you get stumped you get the idea or get the point when I say it in a different kind of way. 04:52.610 --> 04:58.860 OK so I don't need anybody to remind me or to say something about you kind of repeating yourself. 04:58.870 --> 05:04.380 Yeah I did because sometimes people need to hear things in different types of ways. 05:04.960 --> 05:05.280 Right. 05:05.290 --> 05:07.950 So we need to make sure we have a clear purpose. 05:08.130 --> 05:13.630 I do that with a really good synonym language when you state the purpose in your introduction have a 05:13.630 --> 05:16.680 fully developed response right. 05:16.720 --> 05:25.030 You can't have a response this heavy on on point one and the introduction and then light on point to 05:25.120 --> 05:27.060 point 3. 05:27.070 --> 05:33.160 Ok have a fully developed response fully developed does not mean a lot of words. 05:33.160 --> 05:35.380 Those are two different things. 05:36.160 --> 05:40.850 As you saw in the first lecture that I presented to you. 05:41.260 --> 05:44.530 Your introduction is one sentence. 05:44.530 --> 05:46.180 Your point one. 05:46.180 --> 05:52.990 Point two point three are part 1 part two point three part three part 1 is two to three sentences part 05:52.990 --> 05:55.030 2 to the three sentences part 3. 05:55.030 --> 05:58.720 Two to three sentences conclusion one sentence. 05:58.840 --> 06:07.190 Look at that Max on sentences 3 6 9 1 1 that's 11 sentences maximum right. 06:07.250 --> 06:13.480 If you can write 11 sentences in 20 minutes you should not be doing Nile's exam you're not ready yet. 06:13.850 --> 06:18.060 OK but that's all I'm asking you to do. 06:18.100 --> 06:19.430 I'm asking you to write me. 06:19.810 --> 06:27.610 You know 11 strong sentences. 06:27.840 --> 06:32.640 Now I'm going to give you a few more keys to success. 06:34.040 --> 06:40.140 Part for like we talked about no errors. 06:40.440 --> 06:45.510 Wide range of sentence structures when it comes to word formation. 06:45.510 --> 06:47.040 This is very important. 06:47.040 --> 06:52.710 A lot of students don't realize they make mistakes in word formation and usually the word formation 06:52.710 --> 06:57.660 mistakes come down to having the wrong word endings. 06:57.830 --> 06:58.880 Right. 06:58.950 --> 07:06.870 It should be E-D and is not should be past tense and is not missing a word ending or confused and confusion 07:06.870 --> 07:09.110 between Eddie and I N G. 07:09.300 --> 07:17.000 These are the three basic word formation mistakes students make that hurt their score. 07:17.130 --> 07:26.520 I want you to make sure that you stay focused on the topic don't stray off of the topic what ever they 07:26.520 --> 07:36.530 want you to addressed in point to stay on that point don't extend beyond the point right. 07:36.560 --> 07:39.190 Stay on that point. 07:39.230 --> 07:43.880 A lot of it seems like I'm stressing that a lot but it's all this is for a reason. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.520 I see a lot of essays. 07:46.520 --> 07:52.940 I see where people think they're doing a great job and they're not because they're they're not staying 07:52.940 --> 08:00.510 focused on the point you need to write in a way where I can really follow your ideas. 08:00.620 --> 08:07.910 There's a logical progression there's a logical sequence I can follow it step by step. 08:08.150 --> 08:10.970 You know good writing is like an inverted pyramid. 08:11.690 --> 08:18.290 When you're writing a paragraph it starts all broad focus on the controlling idea and then it narrows 08:18.290 --> 08:19.440 down. 08:19.970 --> 08:25.030 That's what good writing is introduction very broad. 08:25.040 --> 08:29.020 Then your point one point two point three is narrows down a little bit more. 08:29.180 --> 08:33.520 Conclusion narrows it down to a point inverted pyramid. 08:35.210 --> 08:38.480 Write language and tone are very important. 08:38.480 --> 08:45.010 We're going to talk about the differences between formal and informal language in the next lecture. 08:45.800 --> 08:51.220 Five big mistakes in five big mistakes that need you to avoid. 08:51.260 --> 08:55.000 Make sure that you don't have a failure to cover all the points. 08:55.250 --> 09:02.400 Don't have a failure to cover all the points equally have clear purpose correct tone. 09:04.450 --> 09:07.210 Don't have a failure to separate your paragraphs. 09:07.210 --> 09:09.940 Don't mix ideas. 09:09.940 --> 09:11.460 All right. 09:11.740 --> 09:15.300 It's all about quality over quantity. 09:15.310 --> 09:22.370 Some people asked me and they say well if I write 230 290 words or 300 words is that going to be better. 09:22.390 --> 09:24.070 No. 09:24.490 --> 09:31.070 I've seen people get AIDS in Niger writing and they only wrote 200 word to write 100 to 75 words. 09:31.340 --> 09:32.200 OK. 09:32.380 --> 09:34.920 It's about quantity over quality. 09:36.220 --> 09:43.880 Quality writing quality writing quality speaking is about quality OK. 09:43.930 --> 09:47.020 You have to you have to make sure you meet the workout. 09:47.230 --> 09:52.300 Normally a good essay is going to end up probably around like 200 to 25. 09:52.510 --> 10:01.740 Some people do a great 175 or whatever but you know you just don't have the idea that I've had this 10:01.990 --> 10:02.770 writing a lot. 10:02.770 --> 10:05.130 Keep writing and writing and writing and writing a lot. 10:05.150 --> 10:06.370 They've got to love it. 10:06.370 --> 10:09.910 No they're not the graders not going to like. 10:10.330 --> 10:11.080 OK. 10:11.530 --> 10:20.110 So those are the ideas on the points that I want you to that I want you to make sure that you focus 10:20.110 --> 10:26.680 on those are the ideas about the Keys the keys to success. 10:26.680 --> 10:27.310 All right. 10:27.610 --> 10:34.880 So I'll see you in lecture number three where we're going to go over some issues dealing with language. 10:34.880 --> 10:37.360 All right so I'll talk to you soon.