Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.
Preparation
Transcript
I want to explain a few things about your essay.
First of all, the deadline. The deadline for this essay is October the 18th. Not the 19th, not the 28th, not two days later because your dog was ill or your computer broke – the 18th. If it's late, I won't mark it. I won't even read it – you'll fail the assignment! So, please hand it in on time. You can even hand it in early, if you like!
You can email me the essays at j.hartshorn@lmu.ac.uk. That's H-A-R-T-S-H-O-R-N. I'll reply to say I've got it. If I don't reply within a day, it might mean I didn't get it, so please email me again to make sure. You can also bring a paper copy of the essay to my office, but let's be kind to the trees, OK? Email is better for the trees and for me.
Don't forget that you must reference every idea or quote you use that isn't your own idea. And the last page of your essay should be a list of all the books you used, in alphabetical order, not in the order you used them!
And lastly, make it easy for me to read! That means use a clear font. Arial is best, but Times New Roman is fine too. Not Comic Sans please! Size 12 font for the essay, and size 14 for the titles and subheadings. And use page numbers. Any questions?
I think writing an academic work or essay is so hard and needs so much attention because it's not in your language, in your mother tongue this is not so easy too but I have so much confidence making it. But in other languages, I feel unsure.
What do you find difficult about writing essays?
I think vocabulary and express. Because if you want to write essay good, you have to know more phrases about topıc you write. And also grammer is diffucult to make sentences correctly. And it should be clear for the message you want to say. And you have to more informations. However wheather you know the enough informations, its so diffucult to collect all it.
And I have a question Learnenglishteam. All of us learning English here but when I read the cooments I see they write perfect and it seems their level is very good, not A2. How is this? Maybe they share after correcting? Or only I'm bad at this :/
Hello hatice2,
Thanks for your comment. It's certainly possible that people who have shared their essays were writing at a higher level than A2. We don't really take into consideration whether comments are at the right level for the page or not -- we're happy to get any appropriate comments!
Your comment is fine and probably the comments from others that you've read are not as perfect as you think! It's easy to see what others have done as better. In any case, we don't correct our users' comments, so please don't assume that everything you read in the comments is 100% correct. You can still learn a lot from them, though!
Best wishes,
Kirk
LearnEnglish team
You are right. Thank you for your replyng
Hi! Can I download these podcasts to give my students to transcript?
Hello uzmrincredible,
Yes, all of our audio resources are available for free download. To do this on a computer, right-click on the audio-player and then choose the 'Save audio as' option.
If you haven't seen the worksheet, be sure to have a look at it as well. It might be useful for your classroom needs as well.
Best wishes,
Kirk
LearnEnglish team
Thank you very much
It is difficult to me to write down my own ideas without repeat words or sentences many times. Sometimes I think that I'm not being enough clear about I want to express, so I change my text a lot of times until I feel it sounds fine and tells exactly the idea what I expect.
Definitely! Essays are difficult to write because you should think about content and use of correct grammar and sentence flow that each sentence must connect another to link the ideas that engage the reader to read. One hard part of the essay is to reference other people's thoughts, you must link that section in a specified location otherwise the linkage of the essay structure will be broken up. Moreover, you should have a lot of vocabulary to express ideas. So good essay writing takes time after that it will be easy to write.