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Most people quit after a few failures,

but Ding failed IELTS writing 10 times while acing every other part of the test.

I'm going to show you the exact change he made in just two weeks

that finally got him the writing score that he needed,

and how you can use it to boost your own writing score.

So one day, I got this message from Ding.

Chris, I've been trying for over one year, 10 attempts.

I scored 8 in listening and reading,

but writing is always 6.5.

I don't know what's stopping me.

Please help.

And I replied, send me your last three essays.

You see, Ding wasn't struggling because he was bad at English.

He's an IT engineer, he's smart, he's logical, he's professional.

And he'd been listening to English podcasts for years,

reading English articles daily and building up his vocabulary every single day.

But every writing test, just 6.5.

I actually didn't know what's the obstacle stopping me from getting any higher school.

And like most IELTS students stuck at 6.5,

he did what seemed logical.

He went on to Google and he searched how to improve IELTS rating.

And every article seemed to say the same thing.

Use big words, use fancy vocabulary,

and it's guaranteed to work.

So he memorized lists of high-level words,

and he built his vocabulary from 4,000 words to 6,000 words.

But when he took the test again, guess what score?

6.5.

When I looked at his essays,

I told him something that was quite shocking to him.

Your problem isn't your vocabulary.

Problem is you're trying to do too many things at the same time.

Think about one of those really annoying people that walk down busy city streets looking down at their phone,

stopping everybody walking and banging into things and causing accidents.

Are they bad at walking?

No. Are they complete idiots?

Probably not.

They know how to walk.

They know how to look at their phone.

They're doing those at the same time

and they're turning a simple task into a very very difficult task and making everybody around them mad.

When we looked at Ding's essays,

they were filled with all of these minor errors.

Small spelling mistakes, small grammar mistakes.

Not because he didn't understand how to use that grammar or how to spell that word,

but because he was trying to do so many things at the same time,

it was forcing him to make mistakes when these were completely avoidable.

So let me show you exactly what we taught Ding and you can start improving today immediately.

So here's what he was writing.

Implementation of comprehensive healthcare protocols necessitates multidisciplinary collaboration between medical practitioners to facilitate optimal patient outcomes.

So if we have a look,

protocols necessitates, that's a grammar error.

And then the second mistake is he's not really sure what necessitates means in this context,

and he spells it incorrectly.

Third, facilitate optimal patient outcomes.

It just sounds like he swallowed a medical textbook.

It doesn't sound like he actually knows what he's talking about here.

And fourth, the examiner is reading about 100 essays in a day.

They don't want to decode complex sentences.

Don't give the examiner a headache.

Make their job as easy as possible.

So instead of all that,

we just said write it like this.

Doctors and nurses need to work together to help patients get better.

Same meaning, zero errors and the examiner can look at that sentence and understand what it means instantly.

Simple language doesn't lower your score,

it improves your score because it improves communication.

What lowers your score?

Grammar errors, spelling errors, unclear communication,

vocabulary that the examiner doesn't even understand.

So let me teach you the three simple rules that we taught Dane that massively improved his score.

Rule number one, close all mental tabs except three.

When you write, your brain should only focus on three things.

Number one, answer the question.

Number two, be clear.

And then number three, avoid as many errors as possible.

That's it.

That's all you need.

If all you did was those three things you would massively

improve your score rule number two become your own grammar detective

after ding got feedback on three essays from me he noticed

the pattern he only really had two grammar errors consistency of the plurals

and singles and sometimes the tense issue here's what he did

and you can do the same thing right now even

if you have different grammar errors he wrote He wrote an essay and then spent 15 minutes hunting for those two errors.

After just a couple of weeks,

Ding started to notice these all the time.

And he started to prevent them before he even wrote them.

Once you have been there,

you notice that, oh, I have made this wrong.

I should probably choose another word.

I should probably avoid these kind of things.

So he went from his whole essay just being covered in red marks when I gave him feedback

to only having one or two little mistakes.

So what you need to do is you need to understand what your common grammar errors are,

and then you need to become that grammar detective.

And then finally, rule number three,

the most important one, 100% rule.

This changed everything for Ding,

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and has changed everything for hundreds,

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probably thousands of our students.

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Before following this rule, he used words that he was 70 or 80% sure about.

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He kind of knew the meaning,

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he kind of knew the collocations,

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he kind of knew the grammar,

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but he wasn't 100% sure.

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He would think like, that sounds right, I'll try that.

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You shouldn't think in these terms.

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What you should do instead is only use words you are 100% sure about.

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You know the meaning, you know the spelling,

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you know the grammar, even if it is a simple word,

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you should use that word instead of something more complex that you're not 100% sure about.

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Think about it this way,

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would you drive a car if you're 80% sure that the brakes would work?

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No. So when Ding wanted to write necessitates,

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he'd ask himself, am I 100% sure about this?

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Do I really know what it means?

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No. What's a simpler way of saying this?

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So we would write needs,

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it was simple, it was clear,

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it was error free, and it will dramatically improve your score if you do that over and over again in your essays.

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But even after all that,

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and Ding following those three rules,

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who's still struggling with something a lot of you struggle with, generating ideas.

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This is really important for a lot of you watching.

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I'm not picking on certain countries or anything like that.

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It's just a reality and we deal with this all the time.

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In many countries and many educational systems,

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students learn through memorization, by repetition and by following examples.

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You guys should be really serious about the critical thinking if you're from some certain Asian countries.

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Because of some education issues here or other countries,

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you guys probably don't have a chance to find the right way to put down your thoughts.

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Now I'm not saying one system is better than the other but the system that you want to go into,

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which is the western system, emphasizes critical thinking.

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Generating original ideas and original arguments and evaluating different solutions from different angles.

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Thinking independently.

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These are skills.

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Think of them as mental muscles.

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Like muscles, if you don't use them, they're not very strong.

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So what did we get Ding to do?

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Well we got him to exercise these muscles.

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We got him to practice thinking,

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not just writing, because your writing is basically just you taking the ideas from your brain and putting them on paper.

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If your thinking is not clear,

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your essay will not be clear.

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So for every essay topic,

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before writing anything, he would ask himself three questions.

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What are different perspectives on this?

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What would someone in a completely different country

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or a different socioeconomic class what would they think what would they disagree with me on

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and why and finally what real world examples support each of these sides

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so thinking about things from different angles

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and then coming up with what he thought independently

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but here's where ding story gets really interesting two weeks before his test he was sitting at his computer

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and he was just staring at a screen.

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He'd just finished his first week of practicing using our method.

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And he started doubting.

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He started asking himself, what if this doesn't work?

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And his family were putting pressure on him and asking him when he'd finally pass this silly English exam.

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His immigration plans were on hold,

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over a year wasted and thousands of dollars wasted.

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And here's the thing about Ding's story that I really respect.

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He had to make a choice.

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He could go back to memorizing vocabulary,

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back to trying to impress the examiner,

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back to the method that had failed him ten times,

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or he could trust something completely different.

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He had to take a leap of faith.

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And when he came to me, he was completely overwhelmed.

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He was worried about everything.

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All the advice that he'd been given before by all these past teachers

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and courses and advice that he sees on YouTube was just swirling around in his head.

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And I told him, let's just forget about everything.

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For the next two weeks,

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just focus on clearly answering the question and reducing the number of mistakes that you're making.

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Just do those two things and that's going to remove all of this overwhelm.

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And over the next week, he wrote 10 essays.

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In every essay, he spent about 15 minutes at the end hunting those common errors.

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Every essay replacing uncertain words with certain ones.

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And every essay practicing thinking critically from multiple different angles.

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Just clear, accurate English.

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And when test day arrived,

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Ding walked into the test center with a new attitude.

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His brain wasn't juggling a hundred things anymore.

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And after he'd finished his essay on test day,

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he did something he'd never done before.

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Because he spent his time just doing these simple things,

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he had ten minutes at the end.

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And he spent those ten minutes checking his entire essay and fixing all of the different errors.

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And he actually said he found four at the end.

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Four errors that would have lowered his score and led to 6.5 again.

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Two weeks later his results arrived.

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Overall 7.5, 8 for listening,

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8.5 for reading, 7 for writing, 7 for speaking.

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Not by learning more but using what was there all along.

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All he did was use his own ideas,

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his own intelligence, his own English that he was already proficient in

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and just showed the the examiner what he was capable of.

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Got the score I really wanted.

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I've been working there for a very long time,

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so I'm really happy I got it, finally.

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Today, Ding is applying for Canadian immigration.

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The score that held him back for over a year finally achieved.

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If you'd like to join the same VIP course that helped Ding get his scores,

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and you will find a link that will give you 10% off.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “He Stopped Thinking and Jumped to Band 7”. Las palabras que más se repiten: essay, ding, error, score, grammar. Este vídeo tiene 206 frases y 1906 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:47. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 177 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
examiner sustantivo	/əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/	examinador
vocabulary sustantivo	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	vocabulario
necessitate verbo	/nəˈsɛsəˌteɪt/	hacer necesario, exigir
spelling sustantivo	/ˈspɛl.ɪŋ/	deletreo, espeleo
memorize verbo	/ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/	memorizar
overwhelm verbo	/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/	apabullar, arrollar
optimal adjetivo	/ˈɑptɪməl/	óptimo, en fa
facilitate verbo	/fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/	facilitar
independently adverbio	/ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəntli/	independientemente
avoidable adjetivo	/əˈvɔɪdəbl̩/	evitable
collocation sustantivo	/ˌkɑ.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/	colocación, coaparición
decode verbo	/dɪˈkəʊd/	decodificar, descodificar
juggling sustantivo	/ˈd͡ʒʌɡəlɪŋ/	malabarismo, malabares
memorization sustantivo	/ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/	memorización
multidisciplinary adjetivo	/mʌltiˈdɪsəplɪnɛri/	multidisciplinario

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
come up with verbo	ingeniar, ingeniarse
put down verbo	menospreciar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

I don't know what's stopping me.
Your problem isn't your vocabulary.
What lowers your score?
You shouldn't think in these terms.
Do I really know what it means?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúa	I've been trying · I've been working
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	have been · have made · has changed
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	were filled · being covered · been given

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 39 contracciones y formas reducidas, como he'd, don't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: collocation /ˌkɑ.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/, memorization /ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/, proficient /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, practitioner /pɹækˈtɪʃənəɹ/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, necessitate /nəˈsɛsəˌteɪt/, facilitate /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/, independently /ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəntli/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spelling /ˈspɛl.ɪŋ/, swallow /ˈswɑ.loʊ/, stare /stɛɚ/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, massively /ˈmæs.ɪv.li/, avoidable /əˈvɔɪdəbl̩/, evaluate /ɪˈvaljʊeɪt/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, memorize /ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/, memorization /ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/, emphasize /ˈɛm.fə.saɪz/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como examiner, vocabulary, necessitate.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Gramática en este vídeo

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?