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November 2008

IELTS Essay, topic: Dieting changes a person’s life

Dieting can change a person’s life for the better or ruins one’s health completely. What is your opinion?

Almost of the women today want a beautiful figure. That is why we are able to find a diet programme almost everywhere in the country. Most of the women have and gone on a diet before either to or just health problem.

A proper diet programme will help you not only to slim down but also to have a eating habits. For instance more vegetables and fruits meat, fried food and carbonated drinks. For a diet programme we shouldn’t food and water. There are some diet programmes from the doctors that help you to have a heart like the “Three day diet” which we can find on the Internet. This programme allows you to eat fruits and also some meat. This way of dieting will help you to avoid some of the health problems in the future like or a heart attack.

However some people do not only go on a diet but they avoid eating and hungry for the whole day. All they have is just either water or juices. Also there people who buy special diet programmes over the counter which are not approved by the health department and they are doing so without consulting a doctor first. They do not follow the basic rules of dieting and this will lead them to some serious health problems like of some body parts or, even worse, death.

In my opinion there is wrong with going on a diet as long as we follow the correct way of eating and .

This essay needs some work. It covers the task and has a good structure. The paragraphs are logically connected and many of sentences are structured correctly. However, there are some sentences with poor structure and many grammatical errors (See comments underlined in blue). Overall, this looks like a band 6.5 essay.

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have a good reason for dieting

8 Famous IELTS Mistakes And How To Avoid Them

The truth is that we all make mistakes – because we are human. Some mistakes are harmless, once fixed we can forget about them, and other kind has consequences that affect our life for a long time. Mistakes in IELTS cost us a lot – in terms of money, time and the stress that we suffer.

I have written an article about 8 famous IELTS mistakes and how to avoid them and Kenneth Beare from About.com has kindly published it here. As most of you know, I have been running IELTS-Blog for years now and lots of students write and tell me what went wrong with their IELTS exam. Using that information I have put together a list of most common, really bad mistakes and you can find it in that article. Check it out, read carefully and stay away from those pitfalls.

If you were ever wondering, whether a longer essay will score higher than a shorter one, or whether your accent will get you penalized, the answers are in the article.

Good luck with your exam!