All right. So so far, we've covered the three different ingredients to writing a great essay. We've covered task achievement, coherence and cohesion, and grammatical range and accuracy. Now, we're going to talk about the fourth and the final ingredient to writing a great essay, which is a lexical resource. So in this video, I'm just going to give you some basic information. So let's begin.

According to the official band descriptors list, if you want to achieve a band seven or higher on your test, here's what you need to do. Firstly, you need to use a wide range of vocabulary. This means that you need to know how to use synonyms and how to paraphrase the question language so that you can rephrase it in your own words. Also, you have to use this vocabulary to convey precise meaning. Okay, the words that you use have to be used purposefully. This basically means that you have to use the right word to convey the right idea.

Next, you need to use less common vocabulary and phrases. So less common vocabulary includes words that are not commonly used. Also, you have to use some collocations. collocations are just groups of words that often appear together. Next, you have to show to the examiner that you know how to correctly fit the words and phrases together. And finally, to get a good score, you need to make very few mistakes with your spelling and your word formation.

So this is just a brief overview. In the future videos, we're going to delve much deeper into each of these requirements. So that's all for this video. I'll see you in the next video, in which I'm going to give you some basic vocabulary that you need to know when writing the writing task one essay, so I'll see you there.