Hello and Welcome Everyone. This is TJ, in this lesson, I'm going to talk about IELTS
Writing task of the Academy test. In the
writing task 1 of the IELTS academic
test you need to write a summary of at
least 150 words in response  to a
particular Graph such as  line graph, pie chart, table, map or a process
diagram. It is important to identify
whether a diagram shows changes over
time or differences in one fixed time as
they require different vocabulary and
grammatical structures. You have to
report the main feature and compare and
contrast things, you don't need to write
down every bit of information presented
in that graph. Just try to use range of
vocabulary and different sentence structures
that responds to the questions
appropriately.
You only have 20 minutes for this essay, so you need to be well prepared.
You need to write four paragraphs.
These paragraphs are
introduction, overview and two main
paragraphs with specific details.
For the
introduction just paraphrase the
question, this means that you rewrite the
question statement by changing some of
the words and maybe changing something about the sentence order.
Remember that
this is the paragraph where you
introduce the information, so your
introduction should be quite impressive
as it makes the first impression to the
examiner.
In the introduction paragraph, you need to paraphrase the question.
So,you can start the introduction with the
name of the presented graph
then you need to add one of these verbs
which can show what the graph is for
and after that you can include
one of these
phrases for the descriptions of the
topic but be careful the phrase that you
choose must respond to the question
then finally you can mention the place
and time presented in the craft.
You can
move on to the next paragraph with one
of these expressions.
The overview, this is a
summary of the most noticeable feature
this could be an overall trend or change
or it could be the highest or the lowest
figures. So, don't include numbers or
percentages in this paragraph try to
write about the most striking features
of the graph that could be easily
understood at a glance.
this is the most
important paragraph in the IELTS writing
Task-1 because if you don't have a
clear above you then your brain score
will go down.So try to collect all the
key feature and put them together in
this paragraph.
In the last two
paragraphs you should select the key
information and make comparisons that
include numbers or specific details. When
you have two paragraphs it looks more
organized. So instead of having one big
paragraph full of information. You should
have two separate paragraphs for
ensuring a good result for coherence and
cohesion
when you compare and contrast
try to focus on the data that shows the
main similarities or differences and use
some connective words to connect these
ideas together
also don't forget that
when you make comparisons
You must
include the actual data but make sure it
is 11 to the point that you are making
Don't write about things that do not appear in the graph
just try to describe the
information that appear
and finally you
don't have to write a conclusion but if
you do it makes the writing seem more
complete.
the trend is a change over time
for example you can have an upward trend or downward trend in something.
A trend
usually means there is some minor ups
and downs but overall things moved in
one direction
You don't need to describe
every small upwards or downwards
movement in the writing task-1 Just
try to describe the important trends or
characteristic to give a general
overview.
The verb increase or decrease
are very common as rise and fall or go up
and go down notice that we only use up
and down with the Verb go.
We can use some
certain verbs such as climb,grow
increase or rise to describe a trend or
pattern that goes up.
We can use some
certain verbs such as decline decrease
or fall to show a trend or pattern that
goes down
if there is a lot of
up-and-down movements we can use verb
fluctuate. If something stays about the
same we can use the Verb stay or
remain but we often pair these words
with other words such as constant or
stable.We use the verb drop to mean a
sudden change downwards whereas we use the
verb rocket and jump to mean a sudden
change upwards if something which is the
highest point.We can use the about peak
or the expressions like reach a peak or
hit the highest point.
If something is just a lowest point we
can use the expression like touch the
lowest point or hit the lowest point
sometimes we can use the verb double
and triple to illustrate multiples we
can use some certain nouns such as a growth and an increase or a rise to describe a
trend or pattern that goes u. Similarly
we can use a fall a decline or a drop to
describe a trend or pattern that goes
down.
the noun phrase is like a
fluctuation or a variation can be used
if there is a lot of up-and-down
movements whereas if something reaches a highest point we can say a peak. Notice
that we introduced this noun phrases
with expression like "There was" we can
also use these noun phrases with some
verbs such as witness,experience
reflect,show reach or see to describe
changes.
Sometimes we can also add "ing"
with a verb to describe the trends in
different ways.
we often need to use
adjectives and adverbs to indicate the
speed or the types of changes in the
trends. We use these adjectives and
adverbs to indicate repeat changes or
big differences. We use these adjectives
and adverbs to show moderate changes or
moderate differences
we use these adjectives and adverbs to
describe steady changes.
We use these
adjectives and adverbs to represent
slight changes or small differences.
 
You can use some adverbs such as
respectively and consecutively or
sequentially at the end of the sentence
when you are referring to a list of
items that belong to another list
separately in the order already mentioned
 
we normally use Verbs in the past tense
when you are describing trends presented
in the graph but still you need to look
for dates to confirm which tends to use
if the trend is still happening we can
use the present perfect tense or present
perfect continuous tense.
If a trend continues to the future time presented
in the graph, we can use the future tense
to describe it.Moreover, we need to use
some certain was to represent such
future data or prediction.
the compare
and contrast was and expressions are
very important part of the writing test-1
This is because the instructions
tell you to make comparisons where relevant
we can use the comparative and superlative form of the words when you make
comparisons. Similarly, we can also make
comparisons with some words like much,
more, less, fewer, far, similar to, same as
many or twice as men
If something that is similar to
something else though it is not exactly
the same, we can use words like about,
almost, nearly, roughly or around.
 
We can also use some other expressions when you can't point out the exact figure
We can use some preposition such as in,
from, to, between, by, in, during, last, over
throughout and next when we talk about a
period of time or when you refer to a
time period presented in the graph
We also use "from and to"  to show a change from one number to another but sometimes
we point out only one end of the change.
Notice again, we use the preposition in
to show what the change was in and if we
want to show how much then we use the
preposition "of" after a noun now, However after a Verb we use "by" or no preposition
Notice the difference between these two
sentences in sentence "a"  the price
changed from one price to another in
sentence "b" the price is now forty percent
more than it was to begin with
when you refer to a certain figure that
stays at a certain point presented in the graph
we can use the preposition "At"
we can also use words or expressions
like "make up" "constitutes" "accounts for"
"contribute"  or "which" when you refer to a certain figure presented in the graph
we can also use Round Brackets to show
the figure of something.We can also
describe a percentage data with some
expressions instead of repeating the
same style to show percent in the
writing Task
 
