Longman Essay Activator

Longman Essay Activator

Longman | 2008 | ISBN N/A - PDF from CD | 1.43 MB

The Essay Activator has been created to help you improve your written English. By

varying the range of vocabulary and expressions that you use, your essays will become

richer and your grades will improve.

You can see from the menu on the left-hand side of your screen that there are 28 Essay

Activators. Each of these contains all the important words and phrases that can be

used to perform a particular function in your essay, for example showing that you agree

with an idea (Agreeing); explaining how something has increased (Increasing) or

saying what other people think (Quoting People). The language covered by the Essay

Activator is not related to any particular subject area. For subject-related vocabulary you

should look at the Topic Activator.

Each Essay Activator is divided into sections. Look, for example, at the Essay

Activator on Giving Examples. This is divided into 3 sections: what you say when

giving an example; what you say when there are a lot of other examples of something; to

give someone or something as an example. If you want to give some examples in your

essay, look at Section 1 and you will find a variety of words and phrases to avoid

repeating for example every time: for instance, be a case in point, by way of

illustration etc. If there are a lot of examples you could mention, look at Section 2 for

ways of dealing with this: such as, including, to name but a few etc.

Each word or phrase is followed by an explanation of the meaning and/or use and is

illustrated with example sentences. These examples can be used as models for you to

produce your own natural-sounding sentences.

In each of the Essay Activators you will also find Study Notes about grammar and

formality. For example, in Section 2 of Giving Examples there is a Study Note at such

as to explain that there is not usually a comma before this phrase, whereas there is

usually one before for example and including.

Look at the Exercises section of the Writing Handbook for activities which will help you

to practise using the vocabulary included in the Essay Activators.