Why You Need To Listen Today:

If you're getting ready for the CELPIP exam, you need to be working on Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing skills. In other words, you must focus on each skill without leaving one out!

Today, I want to help you focus on unleashing the power of description to help you improve your writing (and speaking) scores on the CELPIP exam.

I Share Two Stories:

1. The Story of the JuJubes that Tasted Like...Poo!

2. The moisturizing hand soap that made my wife's hands bleed.

Here are some ways to unlock the power of details! 

1. Don’t just state what’s wrong. Add adjectives and other sensory details.
2. Don’t just say the situation you’re experiencing is disappointing, let the reader know what you were expecting, and then what you got instead. 
3. If you’re describing an image, like you’ll need to do on the CELPIP exam, don’t just say you see a woman walking with her dog in the park. Give the listener details!

Why Details Matter:

Details help your writing and speaking become more interesting to the reader/listener. 

Details help you express your ideas in more influential ways. 

Details will help you get a higher score on the CELPIP exam - so make sure you’re using them. 

For every topic sentence - the sentence that conveys the most important idea of the paragraph, you should have two or three sentences that include details that back up or reinforce the topic sentence. 

Listen through the two stories again. Can you pick out some of the detail words I shared with you? 

How did it help you understand our problem or what was wrong with the products? (Did it help or make it more difficult?) 

Make sure you always use the power of details to strengthen your writing and speaking - both in real life and when you write the CELPIP exam. 

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