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  • Welcome to English Ryan dot com.

  • Hi and welcome to our discussion essay writing lesson.

  • In this lesson, we will write a discussion essay together.

  • Our essay topic for today is this.

  • The wealth of the United Arab Emirates has historically come from the oil deposits in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the u.

  • A e.

  • If Abby Dobby runs out of oil, the U E economy will collapse.

  • Discussed this statement.

  • So, firstly, the most important thing is that we fully understand the question.

  • Now what this question is saying is that the entire U.

  • A E economy is dependence on the oil in Abou Dombey.

  • If this oil finishes, the entire US economy will fall apart.

  • Now, when we look at this question, we know we're going to write a discussion essay because the question word that is used is discuss.

  • So what this means is that we're going to look at both some opinions that support the idea that if Abu Dhabi runs out of oil, the U E con, you economy will collapse, and we're going to look at some that refute this idea.

  • So if Abby Darby runs out of oil, the U.

  • E economy will not collapse will not fall apart before we get to rating.

  • It is very important that we understand the scope of the question scope is basically the areas that the question pinpoints the areas that you are allowed to talk about.

  • When we look at this question, there are three basic areas.

  • One is tthe eu e as a whole as a country.

  • The next is Abou Dobby oil reserves.

  • So the oil that's in Abu Dhabi, we can talk about that and finally, is the USA economy is another area we can talk about.

  • Anything outside of these three areas would be incorrect.

  • This is going off onto a tangent, and this is not something you want to include in your essay.

  • Okay, so now the main sentence that's important in this essay question is the second sentence.

  • If Abu Dhabi runs out of oil, the U E economy will collapse.

  • So because we're going to discuss this, we need to think of some points that agree with this and some points that refute this.

  • And if refute is a new word for you, it's just the opposite of agree.

  • So refute is also disagree.

  • Just make this look a little bit nicer.

  • Okay, so now if Abou Dobby runs out of oil, the U E economy will collapse.

  • Well, a point that could agree with this.

  • And I thought about this prior to making the video, uh is that the U A.

  • E has historically been dependent on Abou Dhabi's oil.

  • So well, say you e has historically been dependent on Abou Dhabi's oil.

  • Okay, so we can say in effect, that because this has historically been true, well, this will still be true in the future.

  • That would be a way to agree with this statement.

  • Now, if we come down to refute it, well, perhaps we might want to argue that today there are many, many industries in the u A.

  • E that contribute to the U.

  • E economy.

  • So something along the lines of you e has many industries that contribute to it.

  • So if oil, if there is no more oil in ABA daba B, well, this is irrelevant because the US we will be upheld by many different industries.

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