Ielts writingtask1

IELTS WRITING TASK1

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IELTS WRITING

• Time: 60 minutes
• Task 1 & Task 2
• WRITING TASK 1

• 20 minutes
• Formal style
• At least 150 words

• WRITING TASK 2

• 40 minutes
• Formal style
• At least 250 words

Task 1

Structure:

• INTRODUCTION : introducing the reader what the report is about. You should paraphrase it
• OVERVIEW : general information without details(summarizing the most important information)
• TWO DETAILED PARAGRAPHS : analyses

10 steps to write Task 1 introduction:

Question

The chart shows information about visitors to Australia, 2000-2010.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

• The chart/ the line graph/ graph
• Shows/provides/ depicts/ illustrates/highlights/ presents
• Information/ data/ statistics
• About/ regarding/ concerning/ on

5. Topic identifying : visitors= people

6. Change part of speech : visitors= people visited

7. Countable - how many / the number/ a number of

Or uncountable - how much/ the amount of

8. Using tenses/ active and passive form of verb

9.Over ten year / a decade / a ten-year period / the next…years

10. From 2000 to 2010/ between 2000 and 2010

Question

The chart shows information about visitors to Australia, 2000-2010.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph illustrates data regarding how many people visited Australia over ten years from 2000 to 2010.

The line graph highlights the statistics on the number of people who visited Australia, over a decade from 2000 to 2010.

Exercises:

Answer

Overview: summarizing the most important information

• 2 Trends
• Upward trend
• Downward trend

Changes with Synonyms

• Increase: rise, go up, climb
• Double (2x)
• Triple,treble(3x)
• Soar,surge,rocket,boom(3x and more)

• Decrease, fall, decline, dip, drop, go down
• Halve(2x)
• Plummet, slump, plunge, dive, deteriorate(3x)

• Stay stable, stay static, stay constant, remain unchanged, remain stable, static, remain static, maintain the same level, don’t change

* The income of Robbie’s Bakery rose

considerably= Verb + adverb

* There was a considerable rise in the income of Robbie’s Bakery = there is/ there are+ adj+ noun

* The income of Robbie’s Bakery saw a considerable rise = See/experience/ witness+ adj= noun

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