IELTS Listening: gap-fill about writing

Listen to the following excerpt from a recording of a university professor who is speaking about the importance of learning to write well.

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Fill the gaps to complete the summary below.

Teaching people to write is extremely _____ _____. Marking a good essay is easy, but in a bad essay, the words are wrong, the phrases are wrong, the sentences are wrong, the sentence _____ is wrong, the paragraphs aren’t _____, and the whole thing _____ no sense. Students should learn to write well because there is no _____ between writing and thinking. Thinking makes you _____ effectively in the world and win the battles you _____.

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Comments

[Nick]

Time Intensive
order
sense
different
act
undertake

[sravani]

time intensive
order
sense
different
act
undertake

[Vahid.khmc]

time intensive
...
coherent
makes
different
act
undertake

[Hess]

Time intensive
Order
Coherent
Makes
Difference
Act
Undertake

[chaffinch]

time intensive
order
coherent
makes
difference
act
undertake

[Martino Hoang]

My answers are:
1. time intensive
2. other
3. coherent
4. makes
5. difference
6. act
7. undertake

[James]

1.time intensive
2.order
3.coherent
4.makes
5.difference
6.act
7.undertake

[Bruce]

time intensive

sense

coherent

makes

difference

active

undertake

[Linh]

1. Time intensive
2. Order
3. Coherent
4. Makes
5. Difference
6. Act
7. Undertake

[Liu Min Yu]

time intensive order coherent makes different active undertake

[Van]

Time intensive
order
coherent
make
difference
active undertake

[do minh an]

time intensive
order
coherent
make
different
act
undertake

[Oley]

- time intensive
- order :They are not ordered right in the
paragraph.
- coherent
- makes
- difference
- active
- undertake

Thank you for today's lesson.

[Oley]

Correction of my answer above: act not active

[elham]

time intensive
order
coherent
makes
difference
act
undertake

[Simon]

CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON:

time intensive
order
coherent
makes
difference
act
undertake

Does anyone have any comments or opinions about what the professor says?

[Husanpreet]

time intensive
order
coherent
makes
difference
act
undertake

[Oley]

First thing that came into my mind after listening to this was" he is absolutely right and I totally agree with what he said." - writing is a methodological process, it will lead us to think precisely.- A simple example, before starting to write a piece of text, not only is content itself to be planed, but also layout: paragraphs, punctuation; purpose ; tone and language register all will be needed to considered.

[phivan29]

1. time intensive
2. order
3. coherence
4. makes
5. differences
6. act
7. undertake

[tra]

1.....
2.orderd
3.coherent
4.makes
5.different
6.act
7.undertake

[shaila]

I totally agreed with the professor,even i could feel his frustration about student's writing ability and critical thinking. Before writing an essay, a person should analyse the purpose of that act and how this can be presentable to audience or reader.

[Nina Luu]

time intensive
order
coherent
makes
differences
act
undertake

[Ferdian]

time intensive
order
coherent
makes
difference
act
undertake

[Jyoti]

Time intensive
Order
Incoherent
Makes
Difference
Act
Undertake

[Onur B]

I listened 5-6 times, any how could not completed.

Below my answer

1-time intensively
2-...
3-not order
4-make
5-distance
6-active
7-take

[Onur B]

Yes I agree with him. It is very difficult to teach writing to people.

[Tonia]

time intensive
are coherent
makes
difference act
undertake

[Pop]

Personally i feel that the professor clarified an important issue that we may face here as english learners and that is there is a correlation between thinking and writing.The ability to analyze data , arguments and opinions and transfer them from your mind to the paper is a craft that we should be skilled at .