Templates for IELTS Writing Opinion Essay
Learn structures for different types of essays
First think in IELTS writing you should do is to learn how to write and structure different types of essays it’s not difficult as the range is limited. This exercise will help you in real exam as you will feel easy to write any type of essay in the given time limit.
Templates for common types of IELTS essays
After you get familiar with different types of essays you can move to templates as they can help you a lot. Templates can enhance your scores as they are filled with vocabulary and the chances of grammatical errors also get low. Here the question arises whether the examiner will consider it as a memorized answer? NO he will not as this is structural language that is essential to writing an essay. Memorized essay is something that you learn by heart about a specific topic from any sample answer or from any other means.
Template for opinion essay
Introduction
Some people are of the opinion that ………. [Fill the blanks with the topic]
I totally agree/disagree with this opinion because
[Reason 1 + reason 2]
Paragraph 2
First point to support my point is that ………[Reason 1]
Paragraph 3
Another reason why I support/don’t support the notion that TOPIC is due to the fact that… [Reason 2]
Conclusion
To sum up, I completely agree/disagree that TOPIC because [rephrase reason 1] and [rephrase reason 2].
Given this situation, it seems that [give a final recommendation or opinion]
SAMPLE ESSAY
Some people believe that a minimum qualification should be fixed for right to Vote. Do you agree or disagree?
SAMPLE ANSWER
Some people are of the opinion that in a democracy, everybody should not be given the right to vote. They believe that right to vote should be granted only to the people who possess a minimum educational qualification. I do not agree with such people. I firmly reject the idea of fixing minimum educational qualification as the criterion for voting right.
First point to support my point is that democracy is rightly described as the government of the people, for the people, by the people. If we fix a minimum educational qualification for voters, that would mean striking off a large number from the voting lists. A big majority of people will be disqualified from electing their governments. Democracy would no more be a popular government. It will be reduces to a government by the minority. The very aim of setting up a government by the popular mandate will be defeated.
Another reason to support the notion is minimum educational qualifications should not be fixed for suffrage for another reason also. Those who advocated the qualification tag, do so because they believe that those lacking educational standards have no wisdom to cast their vote. They believe that only the educated people possess political awakening. But that is far from the truth. In fact, those below the qualification level are often more practical. They possess more knowledge about the credentials of different political parties and their candidates. They often exhibit more wisdom than the qualified ones in electing their rulers.
To sum up, the present system of universal adult franchise is the best. Adulthood is the age where voters have the maturity to cast their vote rightly. Educational qualification has hardly anything to do with it.
