hi there it's asiya one of the main challenges of ielts academic writing task 1 is vocabulary
in this task you need to describe a chat table map or diagram and most likely it's not something you
do regularly in this video i'm going to give you some essential words and show you how to
write high scoring task 1 sentences no need to write anything down there is a pdf for you
to download and you can find a quiz to practice on my telegram channel called
fastrack ielts search for hashtag ft5 and you get straight to the task let's get started
okay first of all let's have a look at this pie chart cruise passengers by country
percent and we have the uk germany france italy and spain
so ben five sentences would be very simple and sound something like 50 of passengers
are from the uk the passengers from germany are 34 of the total number and so on boring
first of all we need to replace the verb to be you should say to represent to account for
to make up britons represent 50 of all passengers the germans account for 34
of the total number tourists from france italy and spain make up the remaining 16 percent of
the people on board that's much better but we still repeated percents in each sentence 50 34
so here is what you can do instead for example you want to say twenty percent you could say one fifth
or every fifth passenger or one passenger out of five and then sentences would sound britons
represent half of all passengers the germans account for one third of the total number or
every third passenger on the cruise is german these sentences sound much more varied in terms of
their vocabulary they are not the same in task 1 you often need to talk about nationalities so here
are some ways to do that for example people from the uk the british people or just the british or
britains people from france the french people or the french don't forget the article the french
people from the usa the american people the american or americans what do you need to
write a band 9 sentence well that's where you have to think what lies behind these numbers
what's the pattern what's the trend for example we could say the uk is the largest cruise market
that's the trend with britons representing over half of all passengers and that's my support i
prove my claim with some numbers now let's talk about the first sentence in your report
every task one question starts with the words the chart maps diagram shows or show the verb is
always the same in the easiest way to begin your report is to paraphrase this task sentence
the key is that your sentence is not too similar to the task sentence so let me give you
four verbs you can use instead and two sentence structures to vary your answer okay
the first verb is to illustrate the maps illustrate the development of greenfield town
over a 60-year period if this sentence sounds too similar to the question you could say
the maps illustrate how greenfield town has been transformed from 1960 up to the present day and
has been transformed is the present perfect passive someone has transformed the city or the
city has been transformed okay here is another example of how to make two different sentences
this diagram illustrates the process of paper making or this diagram illustrates how paper
is made you see sentence structures are different the next verb is to examine
the chart examines the levels of obesity among five age groups in the usa
or the chart examines how many people are overweight or obese
in the usa and breaks down the results by age that's how you can refer to age groups to break
down the results by age the next expression is to give information about the table gives information
about the countries that have the largest oil reserves and the largest oil production
sometimes you may have a table and a chart in the same task then you could refer to them
collectively as the data the data provides information on oil reserves and production
in five countries and please note we say to give information about but to provide information on
let's talk about percentages again here is a pie chart student spending or what students spend
their money on of course we could say students spend 60 of their money on rent and 30 on food
but that's boring and too simple here are some more interesting ways to talk about percentages
you could say twice as much or three times as much for instance students spend twice as much
paying rent as buying food or three times as much money is spent on food as on books
and that's the passive voice money is spent and because the noun money is uncountable it is is
spent you could also say that something is that many times higher student expenditure on food
is three times higher than that on books or the figure for renting accommodation is
six times higher than the figure for buying books next we often need to describe numbers that go
up or down let me give you some proper vocabulary for that have a look at this line graph
at first it goes up very gradually just a little bit then more noticeably and finally it just
jumps up so here is how we can describe each stage when you have small changes you can use the verbs
to grow to rise to increase to climb with adverbs slowly slightly gradually moderately or modestly
student numbers in uk universities grew slightly from 280 000 in 2016 to just over 285 000 in 2017
when changes become more noticeable you can still use the same verbs
but the adverbs are fast quickly rapidly considerably significantly the number of
international students increased considerably by almost 20 percent compared with the previous
year okay and finally they just jump up if you have big and sudden changes
you can't use all the words here so you could say to grow to rise to increase dramatically
or drastically it's not something that happens often so that's more than enough for you you
could also say to jump it's not very formal but it's okay it's acceptable but you cannot use
these adverbs with it you just say to jump and that's it the proportion of chinese students rose
sharply from 20 in 2016 to 30 in 2017 or student numbers increased dramatically or jumped in 2008.
i think in ielts academic writing task 1 you really have an opportunity to improve your score
by learning specific vocabulary for the task even if you can speak english quite well you may simply
not know words you need to describe charts or maps an even more serious issue is making complex
task one sentences that won't all sound the same again learning phrases and sentence structures is
a great way to improve your writing i've created a vocabulary for task 1 with essential words phrases
and task 1 example sentences that will help you boost your score it's a paid guide but you can
download a preview for free and this preview contains sentences from today's video and more
all the links are in the video description box below and you can download the preview right on
the screen thank you for watching me today good luck with your preparation and your exam bye