In this lesson, we are going to provide you some tips for the task 2 essay type called thematic questions. The questions that you may encounter in your exam are something like the following:
Example 1:
"What is a book or movie that is important to you? What is unique about the book or movie? What impact did it have on you?"
Example 2:
"if you could change your hometown to make it a better place, what changes would you make? How would these changes improve your hometown?"
Thematic questions look like these, they are a series of questions, usually about two or three a and they follow a theme of some kind. In the first one, the theme is a book or movie that had some influence on you in some way and the second one is your hometown and the kind of changes you would like to make. Usually two questions, but sometimes three questions, all related to the same topic or the same theme.
This is really the most important thing to address this kind of question is that you must answer each question in the prompt. You cannot skip some things or decide you like one question more than the other. These questions seem really closely related and they are in fact, closely related. However, you need to be able to answer each one in its own way. The best organization for this type of essay is to answer each of the questions in its own paragraph.
Take each one and write a paragraph. If you have two questions in the prompt, then you know you can write an essay with an introduction, two body paragraphs, and a conclusion. If you have three questions, you are gonna have to write three maybe shorter body paragraphs in addition to your introduction and conclusion. The goal is to write a paragraph for each one.
Usually that will get you to your 250-word minimum. However, if you have more to say, if you write quickly and you get through both of your body paragraphs really fast and you want to add some content. It is perfectly fine to add another paragraph to one of the questions.
Thesis statements can be the tricky part of this question type. They are difficult because you have got a few different questions to answer and you need to be able to find what connects the ideas together. What is it that you can say to kind of summarize your main idea in your thesis statement in a way that you can connect all of those different questions from the prompt together in a way that makes sense. The easiest way to understand how to do this is to take a look at some sample questions and sample thesis statements to see how it works.
Please watch the below videos for more detail for the two above-mentioned samples (will be updated later):
