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Make the first questions simple, pleasant Overview Engagement Get to know your people with Pulse Surveys, eNPS scoring, anonymous feedback and messaging.; Recognition Give your people a chance to be seen with peer-to-peer recognition and watch recognition rise.; Alignment Get your people in the same mindset with OKR goals and 1-on-1 meetings.; Team leadership Support managers with the tools and resources they need to lead hybrid Task2 write and ask questions about the news when reading the text ,what questioncome up in your mind if you dpn't have any.Then try to ask question that the answers of wich are the ones underlined in the text write the question in the spaces below then work in pairs and ask your friends the quetions you have writen Task2: Practice asking and answer questions. Still related to the reading text above, play the roles of the speakers in the dialogs. Complete the blanks with suitable expressions. . Nor did leaking the Pentagon Papers, by itself, do anything to shorten the war, which was his intention, Ellsberg admits. What did happen is that Nixon erupted in outrage over the leak and created the “Plumbers” unit to discredit Ellsberg. The Plumbers’ first break-in was to the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, but that led later to the Watergate burglary, Nixon’s resignation and the dismissal of all charges against Ellsberg on grounds of “improper government conduct.” Thus, indirectly, Watergate may well have prevented further escalation and shortened the war because it “undermined Nixon’s authority,” as Nixon’s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, wrote in the first volume of his memoirs, White House Years. Congress cut off aid to South Vietnam in 1975, and the war ended in April of that year with total victory by North Vietnam. So Ellsberg has some parting advice to future whistleblowers “Don’t do it under any delusion that you’ll have a high chance of ending up like Daniel Ellsberg.” This is especially true, he says, now the government is zealously prosecuting under the Espionage Act, which was first used in Ellsberg’s case. Barack Obama later deployed it eight times, more than any other president, despite pledging to run “the most transparent administration in history.” Even if they escape prosecution, whistleblowers in high places face long odds against success in changing government policy — and yet at the same time Ellsberg says they are more necessary than ever. “I would caution people against thinking that any revelation by itself, no matter how spectacular — how amazing, how shocking, and extraordinary it is — would necessarily evoke a reaction, from the media or Congress, or that people will react to it,” Ellsberg tells me. “But it can work. My case shows that probably more than any other case.” Ellsberg, snowy-haired but energetic despite the cancer — renowned for his eloquence, he still speaks in perfect paragraphs — was calm, even jovial, during what his son, Robert Ellsberg, said would be his last interview. Based on his experience in the covert world, Ellsberg sees a direct line between the deceptions and lies that led to the Vietnam War — and 58,000 American deaths — and the deceptions and lies that justified the Iraq war. This high-level deceit, Ellsberg says, extends to America’s current drone war policy around the world, in which the government has allegedly covered up the number of civilian deaths it causes. “The need for whistleblowing in my area of so-called national security is that we have a secret foreign policy, which has been very successfully kept secret and essentially mythical,” he says. “I’m saying there’s never been more need for whistleblowers … There’s always been a need for many more than we have. At the same time, it’s become more and more dangerous to be a whistleblower. There’s little doubt about that.” For many whistleblowers and their legal defenders, Ellsberg remains an inspiration, not just because of the Pentagon Papers but for his later actions revealing how nuclear strategy during the Cold War had been secretly based on war plans that would have left hundreds of millions of civilians dead, and how dangerous the nuclear threat remains today. “For me and my generation, Daniel Ellsberg was the defining whistleblower,” says Scott Horton, a prominent human rights attorney who has defended whistleblowers going back to Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov in the 1970s. “The striking thing about him was that his position within the national security establishment was a prominent one. He realized there was something wrong with the whole way the Vietnam War was being justified, that this process was corrupting the way decisions were being made about national security affairs, and the system was so self-sealing that really the only way you could puncture that was presenting the public with the truth.” At the same time, Horton believes that Ellsberg, like other whistleblowers, occasionally sees conspiracy and government perfidy when the evidence is scant. During the course of our hour- and-20-minute interview, Ellsberg contended America still runs a “covert empire” around the world, embodied in the domination of NATO. He believes Washington deliberately provoked Vladimir Putin into invading Ukraine by pushing its seat of power eastward toward Russia’s borders; that the mainstream media is “complicit” in allowing the government to keep secrets it has no right to withhold; and that any notion Americans are ever the “good guys” abroad “has always been false.” “I think very few Americans are aware of what our actual influence in the former colonial world has been, and that is to keep it colonial,” Ellsberg says. “King Charles III [of Britain] is no longer an emperor, as I understand it, but for all practical purposes Joe Biden is … Here’s a point I haven’t made to anyone but would like to in my last days here. Very simply, how many Americans would know any one of the following cases, let alone three or four of them?” Ellsberg then rattles off a series of orchestrated coups, most of them fairly well documented, starting with Iran in 1953, and then in Guatemala, Indonesia, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Brazil and Chile. I respond by saying those were all Cold War policies, if covert ones, and ask him whether he thinks anything has changed since. In announcing the complete withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, for example — as the Taliban effectively chased American troops out of the country — Biden declared that the United States was “ending an era of major military operations to remake other countries.” Ellsberg doesn’t believe it. “Democrats in this area are as shameless as Republicans,” he says. “Our elections in the realm of foreign policy and defense policy and arms sales, I have come to understand, are essentially between people vying to be manager of the empire.” Even his most fervent admirers say that sometimes Ellsberg, haunted by his experience in the covert world, occasionally goes too far in seeing dark designs in policy. “He’s really serious about conspiracy theories,” Horton says. “I would contrast what he did during the Vietnam era to some of the more recent things where he’s really not on the inside anymore and doesn’t have that access to information.” Christian Appy, a University of Massachusetts historian who is currently working on a book about Ellsberg based largely on his papers, says he doesn’t believe Ellsberg is a conspiracy theorist but adds “I do think he sometimes speculates on things that I myself think are improbable.” Even so, Appy says, Ellsberg is not entirely wrong in asserting that since World War II the has been effectively running an empire. “I think he is more careful than some people. In the last 10 years he has placed more stock on the military-industrial complex underpinnings of power, that they really do have huge influence on sustaining this huge imperial footprint around the world. And after all, we still have 800 military bases on foreign soil, and we conduct exercises in 25 countries.” The current number of bases abroad is closer to 750. Louis Clark, the CEO of the Government Accountability Project, a whistleblower legal advocacy organization inspired by Ellsberg, says his influence has been titanic over the decades. “There’s been a tremendous sort of cultural change from the time he came forward, an acceptance of whistleblowing.” Unfortunately, that in turn has incited use of the Espionage Act against whistleblowers, a 1917 law that was intended for use against spies for foreign governments. “People need to know what they’re getting into, especially with the abuse of the Espionage Act. These people are obviously not spies. There needs to be at a minimum a public interest kind of defense, which you can’t do under the Espionage Act,” says Clark. In the interview, Ellsberg agrees not all leaks are created equal, and that it’s sometimes difficult to tell a real whistleblower from a fantasist, like the mysterious Q of the QAnon conspiracy, or someone who seems mainly interested in self-promotion. He believes Jack Teixeira, the National Guardsman who recently leaked a raft of classified documents by posting them on a gaming site, fits into the latter category. “He’s invented a new form of leaking. It is not easy to understand why he thought he would get away with it,” Ellsberg says. “But there’s a big difference between whistleblowing and just leaking. Leaking is part of the way the system works. It has nothing to do with revealing wrongdoing. It’s much more about how great our weapons system is compared to the other one.” No one ever sets out to become a whistleblower. Most whistleblowers start out as patriots or devoted company people, often passionate ones. And there is a pattern to their behavior Most of them try at first to address wrongdoing within the system; going to the media is a last resort. Ellsberg describes himself as a Harvard-educated Marine who in the beginning completely bought into the Cold War struggle against communism, including the Domino Theory. When he went to work for the Defense Department and Rand Corp., he says, “I very much accepted the idea that we were a force for democracy in the Third World, as in Korea, and the former colonial world, and for self-determination, for sovereignty, for peace. We were the good guys.” Initially, he wanted to divulge the Pentagon Papers to Congress, but few people in Congress seemed interested, he says. Ellsberg only reluctantly agreed to go to the media when he began “hearing from contacts in the Nixon administration that Nixon was planning to escalate the war,” says Robert Ellsberg, who as a 13-year-old helped his father secretly copy the Papers. In a later era, a number of people who turned into whistleblowers were inspired by 9/11 to help their country. Among them Ian Fishback, the dedicated Army captain who revealed that the torture practices at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were systemic, not isolated incidents, only to suffer criticism, mental illness and die years later in a charity hospital; and Reality Winner, who was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking details of Russian infiltration in the 2016 election. Other whistleblowers who have served time include Chelsea Manning, the former Army soldier who disclosed military and diplomatic documents to Wikileaks, and Daniel Hale, who is currently imprisoned in Illinois after being convicted of giving classified material about drone operations to the media. Edward Snowden, who leaked massive amounts of information about surveillance by the National Security Agency, is in permanent exile in Russia. Whistleblowers often end up bitter and incurably self-righteous. Like Ellsberg and Snowden, they are variously called “hero” or “traitor” for the rest of their lives. Or in the case of Frank Serpico, the famous cop, a “rat.” Not long before Ellsberg exposed the Pentagon Papers, Serpico was testifying to the Knapp Commission in 1970 about endemic graft in the New York City Police Department, which later became the subject of a book and a classic film. Like Ellsberg, Serpico tried for years to register his complaints inside the system — in his case the police department and the city government — before finally going to the New York Times in frustration. To this day, Serpico says, he is viewed as an outcast by the NYPD. “It’s pretty lonely out there,” says Serpico, who is 87 and lives in a wooded tract outside Albany, “It doesn’t end. Dan is the unforgiven and I’m the unforgiven.” Still, in a phone interview in May, Serpico adds “Whatever you do, no matter how small, it makes a difference … And you have to keep struggling. That’s what whistleblowers are doing They’re struggling to keep the system from going under.” Whistleblowers, it must be said, often do seem to be a different breed of human — and more alike than different, no matter what they are exposing. They are motivated by a moral outrage that often leads them to take on an entire system they were once part of and even loved with little hope of changing that system. Nor are they welcomed back into their organizations or industries, much less promoted. Certainly, they get no reward — with the exception of some financial whistleblowers who revealed illegal corporate gains. “It’s not just a question of awarding an act which from almost every point of view, social and personal, is irrational, in the sense that it’s likely to be extremely personally risky and I think there will be no change to that,” Ellsberg says. “You can’t change the fact that when you tell secrets that your boss or your old area of industry is anxious for you to keep, you can’t escape retribution for that. I was very much an outlier on that. You might almost say Frank Serpico is the other absolute end of that. He got shot in the face.” In the last half century, Ellsberg amassed a huge amount of hate mail calling him treasonous, Appy said. As Kerry Howley describes it in Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs A Journey through the Deep State, her new book about Reality Winner and other whistleblowers, they often just don’t understand why others fail to see the world the way they do, why most people just go along even with what they think is a bad or unjust system. “Most of us are good at not looking,” she writes. “People who feel they must confront the nature of reality, whom we call whistleblowers’ or traitors,’ tend to feel that the rest of us should do the same, which makes those people annoying, because not looking is a skill, and after a while you too might lose the ability not to look.” As a result, whistleblowers often find each other, forming a loose band of exiled brothers and sisters — or, at the very least, a support group. After hearing about Ellsberg’s diagnosis, Serpico and Ellsberg recently spoke on FaceTime and “reminisced about old times,” as Serpico puts it, “what was going on back then and how both our situations were happening pretty much at the same time.” Serpico refuses most requests to have video conversations though he occasionally makes public appearances to support whistleblowing causes, but he says “I couldn’t deny Dan. He wanted to see my face.” And in the end, that is the legacy Ellsberg hopes to impart — the idea that whistleblowers are not alone. They are a team, and they need to become more effective by learning from each other. “Here’s a very good piece of practical advice, which is don’t go through channels. Don’t go to the Whistleblower Protection Act. Don’t go to the inspector general as Tom Drake did, for example. That only serves to identify you as a troublemaker and someone who’s not with the system, somebody who whines about the fact that we’re killing people,” he says. In 2005, Thomas Drake was working as a career intelligence official and employee of the National Security Agency when he grew worried that an NSA program code-named Trailblazer had turned into a boondoggle that cost more than a billion dollars and violated citizens’ privacy rights. Internally, Drake pushed for a more effective alternative program but when he was ignored, first by his superior, then by the NSA and Defense Department inspector generals, and even testified to Congress with no effect, Drake finally leaked to a Baltimore Sun reporter. He became the first official since Ellsberg charged under the Espionage Act and barely managed to avoid prison when he pled guilty to a misdemeanor. But his career was ruined. Ellsberg also believes whistleblowers should try to remain anonymous if they can. “If you possibly can avoid exposing yourself, do that, don’t reveal yourself as I did, although I felt I had to do it and would do it again under other circumstances. Like Snowden and Chelsea Manning, we always felt we didn’t want other people blamed for what we had done. But if you’re not worried about that, the first thing would be to do it as anonymously as possible. In that respect there has been some improvement a cipher system so whistleblowers can speak with the press. “My biggest advice is, don’t do this unless you’re ready to accept the high risk of having your career destroyed and actually going to prison,” Ellsberg says. “Going to prison is a new one, starting under Obama, but it’s there now, very much so. Obviously, that really narrows the number of things worthy of whistleblowing considerably. I wouldn’t do it, for example, just for bribery or cost overruns. That’s not important enough to go to prison.” “But the final thing I would say is there are lots of things having to do with preserving the Constitution, as in Snowden’s case, or shortening a war, or in stopping a massive assassination program, the drone program, as in Daniel Hale’s case, that do make it indeed quite worthwhile to sacrifice yourself in order to save the lives of lot of people,” Ellsberg says. “I would like to encourage people to ask themselves the question Am I willing to sacrifice my career, my life, to save these other lives?’ And most people will say no. That’s humanity. That’s the way it is. But definitely, if they ask that question as I was led to ask myself the question, you can very well look at it that way and you can say yes.” When I asked whether whistleblowing has made government or corporate America any more honest, however, Ellsberg waxes gloomier. “That’s easy to answer No. The short answer is no. The long answer is no. It hasn’t changed the desire to keep secrets. People in all governments in all of history have been willing to take all actions necessary…to keep people from knowing what will lead to their being blamed for a mistake, for a lie, or a crime or for their incompetence. Talking about national security Who exactly has had their career hurt by incompetence? Maybe some Russians have. They have fired some Russians. Walt Rostow [Lyndon Johnson’s hawkish national security advisor] had to go to the University of Texas, instead of back to MIT, for example. So that’s the level of accountability.” Those aren’t very encouraging words, I reply. “Despite all those odds there is a chance and that can make it worthwhile,” Ellsberg says. “When everything is at stake — I’m talking about nuclear war implicitly here but climate is the same. When we’re facing a pretty ultimate catastrophe. When we’re on the edge of blowing up the world over Crimea or Taiwan or Bakhmut. … From the point of view of a civilization and the survival of eight or nine billion people, when everything is at stake, can it be worth even a small chance of having a small effect? And the answer is Of course. Of course, it can be worth that. You can even say it’s obligatory.” IELTS writing agree or disagree is the essay type that requires the view on the given question. News stories on TV and in newspapers is an IELTS writing task 2 topic that comes in the category of agree or disagree essays. You will find sample answers for the IELTS writing task 2 agree or disagree essay in this article which will help you to understand more about such essay types. News stories on TV and in newspapers are very often accompanied by pictures. Some people say that these pictures are more effective than words. What is your opinion about this? Give reasons for your answer and give any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You should write at least 250 words. News stories on TV and in newspapers- Band 8 IELTS model essay Visual communication is an assertion of strategically converting words into images and conveying information. It is agreed that photographs are more useful and valuable than words. I will discuss the same in the following paragraphs. Firstly, visual graphics create an impact on people's minds rather than reading words continuously. Pictorial representation may even eliminate boredom and create some excitement to learn and know new stuff. Moreover, the probability of publishing fake news is reduced, as it is very difficult to fake a story if it is published in the form of a photograph. Also, the printing of high-definition and multi-color pictures may attract a lot of new viewers, and therefore, there is a significant rise in business. Furthermore, sometimes it is very difficult to bring out certain issues in the form of words. As a result, pictures are the only solution left to spread the news. For example, if there are any community or political problems news companies are not allowed to write particularly accurate information in any article. But pictorial depiction acts as a charm in such situations. At last, it is very convenient for people who are running late. They can just catch a glimpse and get to know the bearings happening out in the world. In conclusion, it can be said that there are numerous benefits of representing news along with pictures. They attract more audience and therefore news and Stories are more effectively transferred to the targeted audience. Also, the sales of newspapers and television are increased. 251 words Check IELTS Writing to enhance your writing skills News stories on TV and in newspapers- Band IELTS model essay Visual journalism enables viewers to understand the complexes, sophisticated topics in a little time period, and other remembering key takeaways. Many people argue that images are more effective than word content. I strongly believe in this fact and further paragraphs will discuss my perceptions. To begin with, illustrations, maps, charts, and other digital content makes it easy and faster for the audience to understand the scenario and hence improving the chances of remembering different aspects. For instance, if a particular data is presented in form of graphs or pie charts, it will be easy to get hold of data, allowing individuals to track much larger data trends in no time. Moreover, the news hence depicted will be more accurate and therefore no pseudo information can be published. Furthermore, there is no need for a deep explanation for any news as the images make it pretty much clear, what they want to convey. Also, there is no promotion of confusion or any perplexion. Additionally, pictures also attract children because of the color therapy. This helps to develop a feeling of responsibility and understatement in children from a very young age. Similarly, different age groups are attracted to different kinds of stories benefiting their personal self. In conclusion, words would narrate stories in organized ways but the addition of images would create a significant impact. Also, the pictures act more advertised to make people updated and attracted towards the stories happening all around the world as there is balanced information represented in pictorial form rather than those valuable words. 257 words Read IELTS writing task 2 sample to understand how to write the writing task questions effectively. News stories on TV and in newspapers - Band 7 IELTS model essay Graphical communication is the most powerful tool that provides facts and news. It is believed that it is more effective to use pictures, than dictation or words. I agree with this opinion and further paragraphs will discuss the same. To start with, photographs catch the attraction of people and make them more interesting. For instance, it is written in a newspaper that a picturesque view of the Northern lights was observed near the Arctic circle. Reading the highlights, individuals will not pay attention to the news. However, as soon as they will see the picture of northern light, it will strike their eyes and create an immense impact. As a result tourism in a particular place may increase significantly. All of these happen because of the pictures displayed along with the news. In contrast, it can also cause some negative effects. Sometimes, citizens are not able to see news from their perspective. They are forced to view things from the eyes of editors of news-producing companies which can mislead or deviate the viewers. The political and business pages are hence traded by the companies in order to find more paper money. Even some new companies' owners get corrupted in order to make more money and hence, play around with the quality of news. Moreover, visual proof of the incident is not always trustworthy and is not always proven. To conclude pictures supporting news engages the audiences very well. However, the real situations of the incidents in pictures are not always accurate and might also deceive or confuse the viewers. 259 words Check all IELTS writing task 2 topics to develop your understanding of IELTS writing skills News stories on TV and in newspapers- Band IELTS model essay Photography is an imperative part of Journalism as it is believed that pictures speak harder than words. Many of the articles add pictures to strike the interest of audiences and attract more people. Therefore, it is argued that images are more powerful than text content. The further paragraphs will discuss my views on the same topic. There are mainly two reasons why pictures coexist with news stories. Firstly, it reduces the language barrier. There are many diverse languages in our nation and it is not possible for each and every individual to understand all the languages therefore pictures play an important role in making the citizens understand different news from different states, countries, or continents. Secondly, images reduce time. People can just go through the pictures and be wise to recognize the whole scenario, hence, reducing the time and using it for other productive things However, looking at pictures, Individuals have to stick with the limited information available within the images. Furthermore, newspapers allow us to get familiar with a wide range of useful words which can be used in personal as well as professional life. Increased knowledge of vocabulary helps an individual create a career in a certain field. Also, sometimes the smallest yet the most important stories are left out because of no picture visual implemented by the story writers. In conclusion, there are various aspects where using pictures, to share news and information, is more convenient. But the small interests and some other factors are compromised because of visual communication. 253 words Model answer for the topic News stories on TV and in newspaper pdf is given here. More writing task 2 essay topics Food can be produced much more cheaply In many places prisons are overcrowded Today the high sales of popular consumer All parents want the best opportunities for their children Due to the development and rapid expansion of supermarkets When answering an IELTS Task 2 question, it is important to read the question carefully and to answer it relevantly. Remember that the examiner will assess how thoroughly you address the task in the Task Response criterion, so it's vital that you respond to the question directly and clearly. We realise that you work hard when preparing for the IELTS test and you might memorise essays that match certain prompts. If you try and answer a question with a formulaic response a learned response that closely matches the question, your essay will not address the task appropriately and you will lose marks. Rather than trying to match your answer to an essay-type category advantages/disadvantages, causes/solutions, learn how to interpret what the question is asking, so you answer it relevantly. In IELTS Writing Task 2, you are required to write an essay in response to the statement or premise given. In your essay, you may need toprovide general factual information related to the topicgive reasons for a problemoutline the causes of a problempresent solutions for a problemjustify your opinion reasons for your opinionevaluate evidence and ideasassess how much you agree or disagree with an idea/the statementdecide if there are more advantages or disadvantagesexplain why this situation has occurredIELTS question types are varied, so it is important to focus on the question prompt. Read through the following table which shows some common essay question types. Essay typeSample promptOpinion essayTo what extent do you agree or disagree with the statement/opinion?Discussion essayDiscuss both views and give your own essayWhy is shopping so popular? What effects does its increase in popularity have on individuals and society?Multi-part and opinion essayWhat form do these problems take? Do the problems outweigh the benefits?Advantage/disadvantage essayWhat are the advantages and disadvantages of...?Positive/negative essayIs this a positive or negative development?Cause/solution essayWhat are the causes of these problems and suggest solutions?Disadvantages versus advantagesLet's look at an IELTS Task 2 question from and see how you would answer it. International tourism has brought enormous benefit to many places. At the same time, there is concern about its impact on local inhabitants and the the disadvantages of international tourism outweigh the advantages? This question asks you very specifically to decide if there are more advantages or more disadvantages. You are asked if one outweighs the other, so you must discuss both the advantages and disadvantages. It is not enough to say, "the advantages of international tourism definitely outweigh the disadvantages" and then only describe the advantages in your response. The reader must see both sides of your discussion and the reasons why you think one outweighs the other. Mistakes you can make with this question typeOnly listing the listing the both, but not deciding if one outweighs the presenting your to answer this question typeDecide on your position - are there more advantages, or more disadvantages? more advantages.Present the advantages 3.Present the disadvantages 2 - as you have decided that there are more your position in the conclusion, so the reader knows that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Opinion essayLet's look at another IELTS Task 2 Britain, when someone gets old they often go to live in a home with other old people where there are nurses to look after them. Sometimes the government has to pay for this do you think should pay for this care, the government or the family?This question asks you to make a decision based on your opinion of the statement. You have to decide if the government should pay for old people to live in an aged care home, or if the family should pay. It is important to make a decision and to clearly express this in your introduction. Of course, your decision will be based on your own opinion, so you may think that both should pay. Mistakes you can make with this question typeGiving reasons why both should pay, but not making a the problems caused by living in an aged care the reasons why the family cannot look after their aged reasons why old people should be cared for in their own giving a clear opinion on the to answer this question typeDecide on who should pay - the government, the family, or a combination of two or three reasons to support your your reasons with examples from your own experience the situation in your country.If you think that both the family and government should pay, support this opinion with how this could work partial payment, government subsidising poorer families, government building aged care homes but families pay for the care.Repeat your opinion on who should pay for this care in the conclusion, so the reader is fully aware of the decision you have made. AdviceWe have only looked at two question types in this article and the mistakes you might make when answering them. On a test day, remember to follow these tips when you first read the questionRead the statement which outlines the premise first - the main ideas in the to see if the statement is referring to more than one idea individuals and the society and make sure you refer to both in your the question prompt carefully to see how many parts are in the all parts of the the question words - What extent/Why/Suggest/Decide/Evaluate - and answer your position your ideas with relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience not made up statistics and researchOrganise your essay into paragraphs - with one clear idea developed in each use memorised essays that might not address the our final message is to answer the question directly. When you respond to the task, you must answer the question relevantly and appropriately, rather than trying to match a response you have already learned to the question. If you feel you are ready to do official practice, why not try our official IELTS practice test to get an indication of how well you are preparing for the real IELTS test. You will get expert marker feedback on your Writing performance, chosen by our IELTS markers, which highlight the areas you need to focus on. Are IELTS Writing questions repeated?There is a lot of conjecture out there about whether IELTS repeats its essay questions. While in an official capacity we can't comment on that, we urge you to focus on preparing for a variety of different topics that will give you the best chance of securing a high score. US Markets Loading... H M S Updated 2023-06-06T185436Z Here are seven ways ChatGPT can make your job easier. Getty Images ChatGPT won't replace your job anytime soon. But it can make it a little bit easier. With its impressive functions, the buzzy AI chatbot could give some workers a "productivity boost." Insider compiled a list of seven ways workers can use the AI tool to help do their jobs. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. OpenAI's ChatGPT and similar AI tools may not replace jobs anytime soon. But they can help workers across many industries – from tech to media – do their jobs better and more quickly. "It's almost like a bit of a productivity boost that some of these occupations might get," Anu Madgavkar, a partner at economic research firm McKinsey Global Institute, told buzzy conversational chatbot – which attracted one million users soon after its launch last November – has been used to generate real estate advice, provide tips on how to start a business, and even write music in the style of individual artists, all with varying levels of success. Investors have been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into industry-specific generative AI tools out of the belief that these have the potential to solve problems that, say, hospitals and marketing departments may encounter. Sam Altman, the CEO of the firm behind ChatGPT, would agree, as he previously said that "generative text is something we all need to adapt to." "We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested for in math class, I imagine," Altman said during an interview with StrictlyVC in January. "This is a more extreme version of that, no doubt, but also the benefits of it are more extreme, as well."Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute who has researched the impact of AI on the workforce, echoes the sentiment. "It's absolutely true that AI applications like ChatGPT can very much improve workers' lives," Muro told Insider. Workers should be careful when using AI tools, as the tech can be prone to misinformation, and it can remove the human touch from tasks like writing. Most companies also haven't established formal rules around employee use of the AI tool, though firms like Microsoft – a major partner and investor of ChatGPT's parent Open AI – have recently given employees the green light to use the chatbot for work purposes, as long as they don't share sensitive information with the how you can use ChatGPT and AI to help make your work life was originally published in February 2023. Use it as a Google alternative for research ChatGPT can be used as an alternative to Google. LanaStock/Getty Images How many times a day do you Google something at work? With ChatGPT, that may become less common. In fact, the search-engine giant is reportedly worried that you'll eventually put your queries into ChatGPT instead. The company issued a "code red" over the bot's potential threat to its search business."Google may be only a year or two away from total disruption," Gmail creator Paul Buchheit tweeted on Wednesday, adding that AI will be able to "instantly do what would take many minutes for a human" to do using a search engine like ChatGPT isn't always accurate — its knowledge only goes to 2021 — it can analyze data from millions of websites to try and answer whatever question it receives. Plus, it gets smarter the more it's than providing users a series of links to sift through — many of which are high up on the page simply due to advertising spend — ChatGPT provides the user with a quick answer. And if the answer is too complicated, ChatGPT can explain it in simpler terms if you ask it to. Having quick access to information could ultimately make your job more enjoyable by freeing up time for idea generation. "Some of the more boring parts of the job may disappear," Oxford economist Carl Benedikt Frey told Insider. "We may begin focusing more on generating the right ideas, asking the right questions, things that are more interesting." Use it to write essays, speeches, cover letters, songs, and employee evaluations ChatGPT can help users improve their writing. iStock/Getty Images As many students with essay assignments have already realized, ChatGPT can be quite useful as a writing tool. While some teachers are trying to crack down on AI's use, UPenn professor Ethan Mollick recently told NPR that he's requiring his students to use said he thinks it can help students generate ideas and improve their writing, adding that the tool could help save time when writing letters and emails, as well."There's a lot of positives about it," Mollick said during the NPR interview. "That doesn't minimize the fact that cheating and negativity are there, but those have been there for a long time." Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of online course provider Coursera, told CNN he uses ChatGPT to write work emails and even speeches. "I use it as a writing assistant and as a thought partner," Maggioncalda looking for inspiration for their books or songs have also asked ChatGPT to produce some rough drafts for them. TikTok user frontlineleadership, who works as an executive coach, said that he even used ChatGPT to write employee evaluations and was satisfied with the outcome."I only had to make slight adjustments here and there," the TikToker said in a January post. "It literally saved me probably 12 hours of work.""ChatGPT is a game changer," he said. Use it to analyze vast amounts of data ChatGPT can be used to help analyze data with speed. Mr. Whiskey/Shutterstock Many roles involve various forms of data analysis, and ChatGPT can process a lot of information quickly. "Analyzing and interpreting vast amounts of language-based data and information is a skill that you'd expect generative AI technologies to ramp up on," Madgavkar told Insider. "If you're an academic, it's quite nice that you don't have to do statistical analysis by hand," Benedikt Frey said. "You can produce a lot of more stuff."It could also help those trying to use data to make investment decisions, Muro, a senior fellow at the Brooking Institute, previously told Insider. "AI can identify trends in the market, highlight what investments in a portfolio are doing better and worse, communicate all that, and then use various other forms of data by, say, a financial company to forecast a better investment mix," he said. Use it for scheduling tasks, planning, and time management ChatGPT can help manage your work schedule. Chinnapong/Getty Images Getting your busy work schedule organized may be time consuming — but ChatGPT and other forms of AI can help make the process go a little bit smoother. Economists at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD conducted a study in 2022 on the skills that AI can replicate and found that AI tools can handle scheduling and task prioritization — in many cases, even "better than humans." "Scheduling work and activities seems a perfect AI problem," the study said. Some users have tried this out with promising results. Micah, a Youtuber that makes videos exploring AI, posted a video demonstrating how he used ChatGPT to automate his work he asked ChatGPT to create a daily work schedule that includes tasks like finishing a performance report and scheduling a meeting with his boss, the chatbot was able to spit out an hour-by-hour breakdown of a potential schedule in a matter of then asked ChatGPT to reprioritize certain tasks, but ChatGPT suggested that "it may not be feasible" to do so given his time constraints. "This is one of the underrated things ChatGPT can do," Micah said. When looking for a second opinion Ask it how to start a business, make strategic decisions, and support customers ChatGPT can offer informed advice on how to start a business and make strategic decisions. Getty Images If you're a current or aspiring entrepreneur, ChatGPT may be able to help you think through the process of starting a business. Insider's Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins asked the chat bot a variety of questions and found it to be a useful tool for generating ideas, estimating startup costs, and outlining a business plan. Coursera's Maggioncalda told CBS MoneyWatch he uses ChatGPT to think through business challenges and strategies. "I ask ChatGPT to become aware of where my biases and blind spots might be," he said. "And the answers it gives are a really, really good starting point to check your thinking."Even Amazon employees who tested ChatGPT said it does a "very good job" of answering customer support questions and is "very strong" at answering queries around corporate strategy. Turn it into a coding assistant ChatGPT can help programmers identify bugs and write code. Maskot/Getty Images Oded Netzer, a Columbia Business School professor, thinks AI will help coders rather than replace them. "In terms of jobs, I think it's primarily an enhancer than full replacement of jobs," Netzer told CBS MoneyWatch. "Coding and programming is a good example of that. It actually can write code quite well."Specifically, ChatGPT is capable of quickly generating lines of code to resolve certain coding problems. One TikTok user, asap_blockie, asked ChatGPT to identify the error in some code he was working on as part of his job, he said in a December video. "It spat out what was wrong with my code," he said. "And then I copied that and pasted it in, and then it worked." But coders should proceed with caution when receiving help from an AI, as some users have found that ChatGPT incorrectly answers coding problems. When work isn't going great Use it to apply for a new job or to negotiate a raise ChatGPT can provide emotional comfort and help get you paid more. vgajic/Getty Images Finally, if you're not happy at your job, ChatGPT may be able to offer some support. People are using it to craft their resumes and cover letters as they undergo their job searches. "It will make you a cover letter so you don't have to waste your time anymore," Jonathan Javier, CEO of the career consulting company Consulting, said in a January TikTok video. If you're fairly happy at work but feel like you're underpaid, ChatGPT might even be able to help you get a raise. Insider's Sarah Jackson asked ChatGPT for advice to help her prepare for a theoretical salary negotiation, and two career coaches told her she'd probably be able to get a raise if she followed the AI's script. Read next Features Economy Tech More...

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