5 baby words in IELTS writing

INSTEAD OF USING USEGOOD [A1] Wonderful [A2] Marvellous [B1] Advantageous [B1] Fruitful [C1] Or words depended on contexts *Baby words are vague, which do not show the clear degree of ou

INSTEAD OF USING USE

GOOD [A1]

Wonderful [A2]

Marvellous [B1]

Advantageous [B1]

Fruitful [C1]

Or words depended on contexts

*Baby words are vague, which do not show the clear degree of our

statements

E.g Listening to music brings back lots of (informal) good benefits to our

mental health.

 Listening to music brings back numerous fruitful benefits to our mental

health.

BAD [A1]

Awful [A2]

Disadvantageous [B1]

Fruitless [C1]

Desperate [C2]

Or words depended on contexts

E.g Children may feel blue (idiomatic expression) when their parents behave

badly.

 Children may be depressed when their parents behave desperately.

INSTEAD OF USING Size or Amount USE Value or Importance

SMALL (A1)

Minimal [C1] Trivial [B2]

Minute [C2] Negligible [C2]

Miniature [C2] Trifling [formal]

E.g On the other hand, small companies usually treat their staffs (informal)

IRON OUT 5 “BABY” WORDS IN WRITING

 On the other hand, miniature companies usually treat their employees with trifling offers.

INSTEAD OF USING Size or Amount USE Value or Importance

BIG (A1)

Immense [C1] Drastic [C1]

Prodigious [formal] Forceful [C2]

E.g On the East side of the map, there was a big river, which had the big

meaning to the villagers

 On the East side of the map, there was a vast river, which signified

(recommended to replace “had”) the drastic meaning to the villagers.

E.g It makes sense (idiomatic expression) that nowadays governments have

been doing many things to protect the environment

 It is meaningful that nowadays governments have been trying several

efforts to protect the environment.

Re-make these sentences:

Learning languages has helped people with many good things.

 _.

Coping with strict customers is one of the things that a salesperson would face.

 _.

It is a good thing to save our nature by jacking in using plastic stuff THING(S) [A1]: words are variable because of distinct contexts like events,

chances, decisions, signals, etc

While a lot of people count on first impression, some people don’t think it will make a big change to improve things.

 _.