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Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Process

The document provides guidance for teaching students how to describe processes in IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 essays. It recommends having students 1) suggest everyday tasks involving steps, 2) draw the materials and steps, 3) write notes, 4) write a paragraph describing the process step-by-step using simple present or past tense, and 5) swap diagrams and rewrite the process from a different perspective to practice different tenses. The key aspects are organizing the description logically by stages, using connectors to link steps, and including all significant steps without omission.

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Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Process

The document provides guidance for teaching students how to describe processes in IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 essays. It recommends having students 1) suggest everyday tasks involving steps, 2) draw the materials and steps, 3) write notes, 4) write a paragraph describing the process step-by-step using simple present or past tense, and 5) swap diagrams and rewrite the process from a different perspective to practice different tenses. The key aspects are organizing the description logically by stages, using connectors to link steps, and including all significant steps without omission.

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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1: Describing a Process

Aim: Organisation: Materials needed:

to practice describing processes individuals paper

Sometimes the visual information used in Writing Task 1 requires the candidates to describe a process or how something works. 1. Ask your students to suggest everyday tasks which require several steps. The may suggest some of the following: making tea or coffee, shaving, making bread or a favourite recipe. 2. Now ask your students to imagine that they need to explain this process to an alien or someone from a totally different culture. Firstly, they will need to introduce any equipment and then break the task down into the most basic steps. 3. Ask the students to first draw the materials needed and the steps involved. They can make brief notes under these. 4. When describing a process, the following connectors may need to be used: First, second, next, then, after, when, finally Point out that, when describing a process, the information will need to be organised into logical stages. They should now use their pictures and notes and expand them into a paragraph. Focus your students attention on the use of the simple present or passive (where appropriate) to describe such a process. Make sure that they check their verb and subject agreements. Ask your students to swap pictures with another student so that they can get further practice. Ask your students to imagine that this was a one-off experiment conducted in the past or that a new system is now in use and this process has become obsolete. Now they will need to change their paragraphs into the past tense so that a variety of tenses can be practised. The visual information used for Writing Task 1 will contain words that may need to be changed. For example a noun or gerund may need to be changed into a verb (e.g. transportation is

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transported). It is a good idea to give your students plenty of practice in transforming words. 10. Discuss with your class how they would organise their information when answering a Task 1 question like this in an exam. Could any stages or steps be left out? Usually, when describing a diagram of a process, each of the steps is significant and so cannot be left out without omitting an important step in the process. As for organisation, this would need to be in a logical sequence or progression, so candidates need to stop to fully understand the diagram and divide it into logical stages before they begin to write.

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