WEBVTT 00:03.750 --> 00:12.480 Okay today and the first lap live class on today for which is October 12th 2018 I'm going to be discussing 00:12.570 --> 00:22.320 the task number two and the task number two applies to the general information applies to the general 00:22.320 --> 00:25.010 exam and also to the academic exam. 00:25.590 --> 00:33.190 As you all of you guys mainly know as you mainly know there are there is a difference between task number 00:33.190 --> 00:40.240 one and task number two when it comes to the general exam and the independent exam. 00:40.240 --> 00:43.450 But the focus of this is on task number two. 00:43.480 --> 00:51.030 Now what I've decided to talk about today is the advantage disadvantage question. 00:51.040 --> 00:59.450 The reason why I decided to talk about this specific question is because many students are confused 00:59.480 --> 01:03.140 about the different versions of the advantage disadvantage question. 01:03.500 --> 01:09.770 And so I'm going to talk about the differences with the different types of I'VE EVER vantages of endless 01:09.800 --> 01:22.130 questions and then I'm going to write an example so that you can have an idea of what type of position 01:22.160 --> 01:26.550 you should take when you have a different advantage and disadvantage questions. 01:26.660 --> 01:27.920 All right now 01:37.950 --> 01:41.090 I can't get people to turn off their mike fingers. 01:41.160 --> 01:41.680 OK. 01:41.930 --> 01:42.480 Hi. 01:42.520 --> 01:45.820 If you have any questions before I get started 01:50.050 --> 01:52.180 one moment please. 01:53.060 --> 01:53.630 OK. 01:57.160 --> 02:02.520 Yes there are distractions if I can if I can get people to turn off their microphone. 02:02.530 --> 02:04.140 Then there will be distractions. 02:04.150 --> 02:10.480 Yes unfortunately I'll try my best to give clear instructions but they're not always followed. 02:10.920 --> 02:11.960 All right. 02:12.130 --> 02:18.490 Now when we have an advantage and disadvantage QUESTION All right we have the advantage and disadvantage 02:18.490 --> 02:19.870 question. 02:19.870 --> 02:21.260 We have three different types. 02:21.280 --> 02:26.190 If you look on my board here or on my screen here everybody should be able to see my screen. 02:26.680 --> 02:32.230 You have the type of question where it says like a more and more students are choosing to study at colleges 02:32.230 --> 02:34.580 and universities in a foreign country. 02:34.780 --> 02:40.120 Do the benefits of studying outweigh studying abroad outweigh the drawbacks. 02:40.120 --> 02:47.470 This question here is probably one of the most confusing questions for a lot of students and I've seen 02:47.470 --> 02:52.800 a lot of students really mess up on this question because they're answering it wrong. 02:53.080 --> 02:58.540 So we're going to talk about that version of the question and part B we have another version of the 02:58.540 --> 03:05.380 question where it says nowadays in many countries young people leave rural areas to study or work in 03:05.380 --> 03:06.350 cities. 03:06.520 --> 03:10.060 Is it a positive or negative development do you think. 03:10.060 --> 03:12.280 The advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages. 03:12.280 --> 03:18.590 Now here in this version of it we have two questions right. 03:18.610 --> 03:22.370 We have the first question which is asking about it being positive or negative. 03:22.720 --> 03:27.610 And then we have the second question which is asking about do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. 03:27.610 --> 03:32.890 So in this situation B of course is slightly different than a. 03:33.070 --> 03:39.420 And then in C we have the more traditional advantage disadvantages question. 03:39.550 --> 03:45.040 In some countries young people are encouraged to work or travel for a year between finishing high school 03:45.040 --> 03:47.130 and starting university studies. 03:47.200 --> 03:52.910 Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for young people who do who who decided to do this. 03:52.960 --> 04:00.490 Sometimes this one also might say discuss the advantages and disadvantages for young people and then 04:00.490 --> 04:02.780 also says give your opinion right. 04:03.370 --> 04:09.280 So you have to realize there are different versions of the advantage or disadvantage question and you 04:09.280 --> 04:10.990 can't always just do it. 04:11.020 --> 04:16.690 You can't do them all the same because if you do them all the same very often you're going to end up 04:16.720 --> 04:18.430 answering the question wrong. 04:18.660 --> 04:25.540 And when you answer the question wrong that ends up hurting your task response portion of your score 04:26.500 --> 04:32.020 in terms of scoring you know you get regraded on your task response your coherence your vocabulary and 04:32.020 --> 04:33.180 your grammar. 04:33.190 --> 04:39.550 So when we talk about when we talk about answering the question correctly we're talking about Task response. 04:39.550 --> 04:49.060 Now before I go any further and before I go any further and start and really kind of break down what 04:49.060 --> 04:52.760 you do for these different types of questions with advantage disadvantage. 04:52.810 --> 04:59.980 Does anybody have any questions if you have a question type put in the box and I will be happy to answer 04:59.980 --> 05:00.900 your question. 05:08.230 --> 05:08.840 No. 05:09.100 --> 05:09.600 OK. 05:09.740 --> 05:10.060 Right. 05:10.080 --> 05:13.800 So let's look at the first one right. 05:13.810 --> 05:16.160 The first with the first one we're talking about. 05:16.310 --> 05:22.960 The question where I see can we save the questions for confusion. 05:26.220 --> 05:29.850 Nia I'm not I'm not sure about what you're asking about. 05:29.850 --> 05:33.080 Can we save the questions were confusing it's a live class. 05:33.210 --> 05:39.010 And so there are questions right and questions are allowed. 05:39.060 --> 05:45.240 This is not if there were any of that if I didn't want questions then I would just do a recording and 05:45.240 --> 05:49.680 not have any students and just recorded class or record a lecture. 05:49.680 --> 05:49.970 All right. 05:49.980 --> 05:55.060 So there are questions we're not saving questions if we have a question ask your question. 05:55.110 --> 05:55.780 OK. 05:56.220 --> 05:57.050 So which choice. 05:57.060 --> 05:57.880 A. 05:58.830 --> 06:00.660 We have it straight. 06:00.680 --> 06:06.810 Just do the do the do do do the do the benefits of studying abroad outweigh the drawbacks. 06:06.810 --> 06:15.570 Now when you have this kind of question this question is really dealing with each other you have to 06:15.580 --> 06:17.460 supply your opinion here. 06:17.540 --> 06:24.250 So when you talk about this question here one thing we have to make sure we do is when you have your 06:24.250 --> 06:25.300 thesis statement 06:31.040 --> 06:39.990 you know your thesis statement your opinion should be in your thesis statement. 06:42.370 --> 06:42.910 Right. 06:43.030 --> 06:48.790 You should be you should be saying within your thesis statement if whether or not you believe the benefits 06:48.820 --> 06:56.890 outweigh the drawbacks where a lot of students mess up what this question is they will have an introduction 06:57.610 --> 07:04.240 then they will talk about the advantages and then after that they will talk about the disadvantages 07:04.750 --> 07:07.460 and then they will go into their conclusion. 07:07.660 --> 07:11.160 And that's not how you do this question. 07:11.740 --> 07:22.380 The way you do this question as we have your introduction and then your first body paragraph your first 07:22.380 --> 07:32.770 body paragraph should address the side you don't agree with. 07:32.860 --> 07:33.570 Right. 07:33.800 --> 07:40.810 So for example in this question if you believe that the benefits don't outweigh the drawbacks you first 07:41.140 --> 07:42.810 talk about that first. 07:42.850 --> 07:47.330 So you would talk about the side that you don't support first and then in the next paragraph talking 07:47.330 --> 07:51.010 about the side you do support OK. 07:51.460 --> 07:56.780 A lot of people do is they just talk about the advantages and then talk about the disadvantages and 07:56.780 --> 07:58.040 what you're doing. 07:58.280 --> 08:04.570 Many times as you're doing Question A the same way that you're doing Question see. 08:04.800 --> 08:07.500 And when you do that you actually hurt your score. 08:16.320 --> 08:23.480 I saw the second body paragraph we would address the side. 08:23.860 --> 08:28.110 We agree with right. 08:28.160 --> 08:31.010 And then after that you would just have a conclusion. 08:31.220 --> 08:32.080 Right. 08:33.020 --> 08:40.730 Now of course if you're doing it for the second question here for Section B then you will have a thesis 08:40.730 --> 08:41.290 statement 08:44.130 --> 08:49.130 and you have to make sure you address both questions. 08:54.640 --> 08:57.930 You can't just under that you can't just address what I'm yet to discuss. 08:57.940 --> 09:02.890 You have to address whether you think as positive or negative and you have to also address whether or 09:02.890 --> 09:05.680 not you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. 09:09.560 --> 09:12.300 Jamal you have a good question. 09:12.920 --> 09:18.290 When we when we mentioned Should we just mentioned the advantages or just the disadvantages. 09:18.290 --> 09:21.030 No you have to address both. 09:21.140 --> 09:26.120 But as you know our deals and the style of how you address it OK. 09:26.140 --> 09:30.540 You have to address both of us all about the language you use in addressing it. 09:30.600 --> 09:30.880 All right. 09:30.910 --> 09:34.040 You can't just you can't just only discuss the advantages. 09:34.040 --> 09:34.530 All right. 09:37.910 --> 09:45.830 So when we have a thesis statement and then of course our body one in this question is going to be whether 09:45.830 --> 09:57.880 or not as positive or negative right and that our body too is going to deal with whether the advantages 09:57.970 --> 10:01.450 outweigh. 10:01.570 --> 10:02.230 In the wrong. 10:02.940 --> 10:09.880 Rather the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. 10:10.300 --> 10:10.600 Right. 10:10.600 --> 10:21.740 And then you have a conclusion write so it's never it's never necessary is never necessary to is never 10:21.740 --> 10:23.810 necessary to have five paragraphs. 10:23.810 --> 10:27.080 I think you could write four paragraphs in just fine. 10:27.080 --> 10:31.030 Some people ask me Well if I write five paragraphs is that OK. 10:31.430 --> 10:38.380 And I would say that yes it's fine if you write if you write five paragraphs that's OK you can do that. 10:38.510 --> 10:45.900 I would say that all depends on the quality of the work of the type of writer you are if you are the 10:45.900 --> 10:53.870 type of writer who doesn't make grammar mistakes who has very very very good foundational grammar. 10:54.120 --> 11:02.820 There's a very very good grammar vocabulary if you are that you're a very coherent writer if you are 11:02.940 --> 11:11.850 that type of writer and you want to write five total paragraphs that's perfectly fine but most people 11:12.900 --> 11:21.150 when they write more they normally will show more grammar mistakes or more spelling mistakes or more 11:21.150 --> 11:23.880 vocabulary word choice mistakes. 11:23.880 --> 11:24.210 Right. 11:24.210 --> 11:28.270 So I think writing four paragraphs is absolutely fine. 11:28.290 --> 11:35.960 I think that you should focus on the quality of what you're doing over the quantity of what you're doing. 11:36.240 --> 11:48.610 OK now the next step that I'm going to do is I'm going to move into writing this first one a and you 11:48.610 --> 11:55.580 know the first thing that I would do of course is do an outline someone to show me an outline for that 11:55.580 --> 12:04.550 question and then go through writing the different parts and I want you to pay attention to the style 12:04.550 --> 12:05.670 in which I'm writing. 12:05.780 --> 12:11.840 OK in terms of the position I'm taking with you and how I'm writing and the type of language I'm using 12:11.840 --> 12:15.530 when I'm writing it I'm not. 12:15.530 --> 12:21.470 There may be some parts where I'm not talking a lot because I'm typing and I haven't quite mastered 12:21.470 --> 12:25.070 how to type and talk at the same time fluently. 12:25.250 --> 12:28.580 So sometimes I'm typing and not talking. 12:28.630 --> 12:31.200 You have this you have to excuse me for that. 12:31.670 --> 12:36.670 Before I get started there are a couple of questions. 12:37.040 --> 12:45.680 Deepa can you Deepa can you use idioms in your introduction. 12:45.680 --> 12:47.140 Sure you can use. 12:47.180 --> 12:54.910 You can use idioms but remember task number two is really is really a formal question. 12:54.950 --> 12:55.370 Right. 12:55.370 --> 13:06.970 So I wouldn't be using things like hands down or over the moon and you know those kind of informal idioms. 13:07.040 --> 13:08.980 OK. 13:09.590 --> 13:11.030 Now that's what you get. 13:11.030 --> 13:11.930 You get more. 13:11.930 --> 13:15.200 I mean if you're going to use a phrasal verb that's fine. 13:15.200 --> 13:15.520 Right. 13:15.530 --> 13:20.450 But I would be careful with idioms because a lot of times idioms can be pretty informal of nature. 13:20.690 --> 13:24.150 If you're talking about the speaking section and you're using idioms that's different. 13:24.470 --> 13:25.140 OK. 13:26.860 --> 13:31.400 But I will be very careful with the type of language that you're using. 13:32.230 --> 13:34.130 OK. 13:36.150 --> 13:39.540 So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to address the first question 13:42.530 --> 13:45.660 right. 13:56.600 --> 14:06.690 All right so with this question here the benefits of studying abroad more and more students are choosing 14:06.690 --> 14:12.990 to study at colleges and universities and a foreign country do the benefits of studying outweigh the 14:12.990 --> 14:14.190 drawbacks. 14:18.450 --> 14:25.520 Right so now like I've said we do have to talk about both sides but it's all about how you talk about 14:25.520 --> 14:26.640 both sides. 14:26.650 --> 14:31.450 All right that's what it's all about how you talk about both sides. 14:31.510 --> 14:39.460 So I am going to address the benefits and the drawbacks and the first thing I'm going to do is do that 14:39.460 --> 14:42.170 by outlining and doing an outline. 14:42.250 --> 14:53.670 So we have the benefits and we have the drawbacks right now. 14:53.680 --> 14:55.400 First for some of the benefits 15:01.310 --> 15:04.040 you can be more independent. 15:08.480 --> 15:13.010 You get a greater perspective 15:16.390 --> 15:17.100 right. 15:17.300 --> 15:25.140 And also you might offer better courses. 15:25.320 --> 15:30.340 You may have some offers some better courses now. 15:30.360 --> 15:32.440 What are some of the drawbacks of it. 15:44.540 --> 15:48.850 Psychological damage culture shock 15:51.230 --> 15:52.900 language problems 15:55.410 --> 15:58.330 and work problems. 15:58.770 --> 15:59.760 Right. 15:59.970 --> 16:00.270 Right. 16:00.270 --> 16:02.020 So that's an example of an outlier. 16:03.950 --> 16:08.990 The other thing that I might do also when I'm doing an outline is I might also put my position that 16:08.990 --> 16:35.020 I'm going to take all right. 16:35.560 --> 16:39.490 So I want to take the position of saying that the benefits do not outweigh the drawbacks. 16:39.490 --> 16:40.060 Right. 16:41.300 --> 16:48.950 Remember it doesn't matter one thing that I was suggesting a lot of students think about is it doesn't 16:48.950 --> 16:52.110 matter about your personal opinion. 16:52.850 --> 16:57.290 You want to just argue the side that's the easiest to argue. 16:57.760 --> 17:00.940 Now you bet you don't you don't have to agree with that position. 17:01.040 --> 17:07.910 But my thing is always choose a position that's easier to argue because you have a limited amount of 17:07.910 --> 17:08.720 time. 17:08.780 --> 17:11.030 You only have 40 minutes to get it done. 17:11.150 --> 17:14.810 So it doesn't matter what side you choose. 17:14.810 --> 17:19.240 What matters is how well you write it and how will you explain it. 17:19.510 --> 17:20.060 OK. 17:20.270 --> 17:21.670 So let's keep that in mind. 17:24.340 --> 17:25.920 Somebody has a question 17:28.500 --> 17:30.590 we just can carry. 17:31.480 --> 17:32.490 No we not. 17:32.490 --> 17:34.510 We are not just comparing. 17:34.620 --> 17:36.680 OK we're not just comparing. 17:36.780 --> 17:43.630 If you're just comparing then you're doing Question see which is discuss the advantages and disadvantages. 17:43.800 --> 17:50.550 Right now when you look at the outline it may look like we're just comparing and in a sense I guess 17:50.550 --> 17:53.020 you are what it's all about. 17:53.040 --> 17:58.340 But the the the the direction that you take the essay. 17:58.590 --> 17:59.500 All right. 17:59.500 --> 18:04.890 There's a different direction that you take the diskless question here. 18:04.890 --> 18:07.820 Then you take the question Where is just advantages and disadvantages. 18:07.830 --> 18:08.180 OK. 18:08.180 --> 18:09.840 So it's a different direction. 18:10.260 --> 18:19.760 All right so the first thing I want to do is I want to write an introduction now. 18:21.410 --> 18:28.280 What I would like to do is I would like to give you guys an opportunity to write an introduction and 18:28.340 --> 18:30.820 I would love to take a look at your introduction. 18:30.950 --> 18:40.040 So if you don't mind go ahead and take the land take five minutes take five minutes and see if you can 18:40.040 --> 18:41.560 write an introduction. 18:41.570 --> 18:45.710 You could type it in the chat box down here and I want to take a look at what.