Imagine that your city government has given permission for a major company to build a large factory near your neighbourhood. Do you think this is a good idea? Why or why not? Explain your position using specific reasons and examples.

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If the city council where I live proposed to open a large
factory
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in my neighbourhood or nearby, I would firmly disagree. My disagreement is sustained from some valid reasons that I will explain in
this
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essay.
First
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, building a new
factory
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means develop a construction
site
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that will bring environmental problems and it can interfere with the everyday life. A building
site
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creates dust that will thicken the
air making
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air, making
impossible to stay outside. The debris created would have to be moved
with
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by
trucks increasing traffic and pollution. The construction
site
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of the new train station in Brisbane
set
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sets
an example. As in
this
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enormous
site
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they are drilling and removing concrete to create space for the new station, every day there is dust everywhere.
As a result
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of that the prices of houses for rent in the area are
plummeted
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plummeting
as no one would live with a building
site
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out of their window.
Secondly
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, the institution of a new
factory
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will bring only disappointment among the neighbourhood. It is inevitable that a
factory
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produces noise at every hour of the day disregarding the people that lives around and would like to sleep.
In
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addition if
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addition, if
the
factory
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processes food, leather or other organic materials there will be an unpleasant smell every time they release their gas waste
in
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into
the air. I bet that no one would live in a place
that is
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noisy during the night and can smell very bad sometimes. A compelling
example can
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example, can
be drawn from my personal experience. When I moved to a little town in Italy for work and looking for an accommodation, I quickly realised that all the houses close to the industrial area were very cheap because of the noise and the smell from the factories. To sum up, there is no doubt that constructing a big
factory
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close to a residential neighbourhood is not a good idea because the quality of the air and the quality of life in general will decrease in that area.
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Use cohesive linking words accurately and appropriately

Linking words are very important in your essay.

To score effectively on your IELTS exam, you should make an effort to implement short concise sentences coupled with linking words.

Almost every sentence in your essay should have a linking word of some sort.

In fact, the only sentences that can omit linking words are your background sentence and thesis.

Linking word examples:

  • firstly
  • secondly
  • thirdly
  • in additional
  • moreover
  • also
  • for example
  • for instance
  • therefore
  • however
  • although
  • even though
  • despite

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