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IELTS Writing Notes

The document provides guidance on writing the introduction, overview, and body paragraphs for an IELTS Writing Task 1 response. It recommends using past tense verbs, adverbs, and synonyms. The introduction should paraphrase the question and state what the graph presents. The overview should describe the overall trends without data. Feature paragraphs should discuss individual elements of the graph using transition words.

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IELTS Writing Notes

The document provides guidance on writing the introduction, overview, and body paragraphs for an IELTS Writing Task 1 response. It recommends using past tense verbs, adverbs, and synonyms. The introduction should paraphrase the question and state what the graph presents. The overview should describe the overall trends without data. Feature paragraphs should discuss individual elements of the graph using transition words.

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IELTS Writing Task 1

 All the verbs in past tense!!!

 Try using adverbs before verbs

 Introduction (paraphrase the question)

 Overview

 Feature 1

 Feature 2

Introduction

1. The xxx (the graph)

2. presents information on / gives information on / demonstrates / illustrates

3. the xxx (the topic)

 e.g. The table presents information on the reasons for U.S. students to visit other
countries from 2009 to 2013.

 e.g. The bar chart presents information on the amount spend on fast food in 2009 in
the U.K. while the pie chart illustrates the percentages of different age groups
spending a lot on fast food.

Overview

 What + Where + When

 Start with ‘Overall, …”

 Do not quote any data, numbers, etc.

 e.g. Overall, the figures for imprisonment in the five mentioned countries showed no
overall pattern, rather showed the considerable fluctuations from country to
country.

 For diagrams,
o 1) number of stages
o 2) how the process begins and ends
o 3) whether the diagram has repeating stages or the process is cyclic

 e.g. Overall, the process consists of N stages, beginning with … and ending up with …
Synonyms

 Time periods

o at the beginning / end of the period

o in / during the n-year timeframe / span / period

o between 2000 and 2010 / from 2000 to 2010

o in the years 2000, 2005 and 2010

 Increase

o rose / increased / went up / climbed / soared / rocketed / leapt

o a rise / an increase / X / a climb / X / X / a leap

 Decrease

o fell / decreased / went down / declined / deteriorated / plummet / plunge

o a fall / a decreased / X / a decline / X / X / X / a slide

 Steadiness

o remained constant / was unchanged / leveled out / remained stable /


plateaued

o X

 Gradual change

o gradual / steady / consistent

o an upward / a downward trend / tendency

o an ascending / a descending trend / tendency

 Rapid change

o dramatically / rapidly / sharply / significantly

 Highest point

o peaked / reach the peak / reach the highest point


 Lowest point

o touched the lowest point / hit the all-time low

 Percentages

o 20% / 20 per cent

o half / one-third / a quarter / one-fifth

o one out of two / three / four / five

 Change

o halved / doubled / tripled / quadrupled

 Around

o about / almost / nearly / roughly / approximately

 Was / Were

o stood at / exactly / as high as / as low as / made up / constituted / accounted


for

 Just over / Well over (larger extent)

o just above / just bigger than

 Just below / Well below (larger extent)

o just beneath / just under

 Regarding

o with regards to / as for / when it comes to

 Similarly

o in a similar fashion

 However

o on the contrary / on the other hand / in contrast


 Same

o identical to / equal to / exactly the same / precisely the same

 Similar

o nearly the same as / about the same as

 Transitions of time

o prior to / following that / subsequently / simultaneously / finally

 Maps

o built, erected, installed, replaced, constructed, developed

o situated, located

o changed to / converted to / became

 Process diagram

o firstly / in the beginning

o secondly / thirdly / after that / following that / subsequently / afterwards /


then / next / in the next stage

o finally / lastly / in the end

 End of a step

o after this step / stage / phase / process, …

o once this step / stage / phase / process is completed, …

 Repetition of a cycle / process

o the cycle / process then repeat itself

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