hello everyone! welcome to my channel this is Dori, I'm a teacher
of English and today's video is about academic writing task 1
and more specifically about
a graph. I've already told you the strategy you follow and
numerous tips about academic writing task one
using a diagram as an example and you can watch
these videos over here in this link but now
if you're ready let's go and check out a graph. Ok, this is your topic here
for a graph in academic writing task 1
so the first thing you do is to read the topic so let's read it together
okay and then we have a look at a graph
just a look and the second thing we do
is to underline keywords as always
in the topic so what are we going to underline in this case
well the weekday volume of what?
of people buying coffee
in New York and in Chicago
yes from Monday to Friday February 2009 okay this is what we need
to underline as always the first paragraph is going to be our
introduction while we will
paraphrase the topic so,
nothing more nothing less and the underlying keywords will guide us with that
if you need extra help on this, on
writing an introduction for academic writing task 1 you can watch this video
over here
I will put the link now in our second paragraph we're going to select and report
the main features as it says
here this is what we're going to do
in our second paragraph after the introduction
nothing complicated so now it's time to actually
read the graph a little bit more carefully
okay so what can we see...
here in this vertical line over here
from zero to 500 is the number of people
of people in hundreds and the horizontal line
from six o'clock in the morning to 8 o'clock
in the evening is the time of the day that people go
and buy coffee the green line
of the graph is as you can see here
Chicago and the blue line of the graph
is about New York, alright?
So, in this case what can we see? At six o'clock in the morning the consumption
of coffee is quite low both for New York
and Chicago of course New York is higher
then as time goes by
the consumption steadily increases
and reaches its peak at eight o'clock
over here for both cities New York
is always steadily higher of course, while we reach noon
over here the consumption drops again and then
after some time at about twelve o'clock one o'clock
steadily increases again at least in New York
it is more significant over here when we move onto evening hours
the consumption has dropped significantly for both cities
only to rise again at six
seven o'clock in the evening and then to drop again
okay these are the main points you need to refer to in this paragraph
nothing more, nothing else you just summarize what you can see
then main changes in the
graph okay and this is how we read
a graph nothing fancy, just remember to
refer to both New York and of course Chicago
Now in our second paragraph we can compare
this consumption for both cities and we can give some explanations where necessary
for example the first obvious comparison we can make
is the fact that the coffee consumption is much greater in the morning than in
the afternoon when it
when it significantly drops the obvious explanation is that the majority of
people drink coffee in the morning before they go to work
and then during the time, from
8 to 10, 11 that people actually work
it drops significantly because people
are at work, then it increases again
probably during the lunch break as people go to eat something eat a snack
or something and then
and then maybe drink another coffee only to drop again
in the afternoon for the same reason
and of course as we move on to the evening hours
the consumption is extremely low for obvious reasons
you don't have to talk about each and everything
just choose some very
significant points okay and of course don't forget to compare
New York with Chicago, the easy part
here is that they move accordingly
they increase together; they drop together
and it is the same thing but you can talk about
the fact that New York's coffee consumption
is always always higher than Chicago's
so these are the kind of comparisons you make in a second paragraph
yeah nothing difficult I suppose. Then you just summarize everything in 4-5
lines and your conclusion
is ready to go! For useful vocabulary in relation to academic writing task 1
you can watch the video here
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