IELTS

IELTS WRITING

DONG NGHI
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Step 1: Analyze the topic

Step 2: Write an introduction
Step 3: Identify ideas and write
an overview
Step 4: Select, group
information and write 2 details
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Topic analysis:
Line Graph form, with 2 lines showing oil
production and consumption
Unit: millions of oil barriers per day
Tense: simple past (1982 – 2006)
In general: both sugars increase over the
given time period and the oil production line
has a flat 8 year interval. In 1982 production
was more than consumption, but in 2006 it
was the other way around
How to: divide the body paragraph into 2
paragraphs by year
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What kind of vocabulary to use in the introduction?
Introductory phrases:
The graph/table shows/indicates/illustrates/reveals/represents…
It is clear from the graph/table…
It can be seen from the graph/table…
As the graph/table shows,…
As can be seen from the graph/table,…
As is shown by the graph/table,…
As is illustrated by the graph/table,…
From the graph/table it is clear….
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Rephrase with synonyms

INTRODUCTION (paraphrase of the topic)

The line graph details the amount of oil produced and

consumed in China over the 24-year course from 1982 to 2006.
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Change the sentence structure
1. The …chart/graph shows/illustrates/compare…….in terms of…
TOPIC: The line graph below compares the percentage of people aged 65 and over from 1940 to 2040 in
three countries
The line graph compares three countries, namely A, B, and C in terms of the proportion of 65-and over-
year-old people between 1940 and 2040.

2. The …chart/graph shows/illustrates/compare how to + V

TOPIC: The diagram shows the process of producing cement for building purpose
The diagram illustrates how to produce cement from A and B for building purpose.

3. The …chart/graph shows/illustrates/compare how S + V

TOPIC: The two pie charts below show changes in world population by region between 1900 and 1909
The two pie charts illustrate how global population changed according to a region from 1900 to 1909
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The statistics set out how many international

tourist arrivals were welcomed in five different
countries over a 15-year period, ending in 2010.
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The line graph compares the populations of India

and China from 10-year intervals, starting in 2000,
and projections for 2050.
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The line chart illustrates how much energy was

consumed in five different countries during the
course of 5 years, starting from 2000.
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The line graph displays the proportion of people living in

New Zealand in terms of different age groups since
1950 and includes a forecast to 2050.
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The line graph illustrates trends in music

purchasing habits over a period running from
2011 to 2018.
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The line chart compares how many barrels of oil

were consumed daily by four main consumers
since 2009 and shows projections for 2030.
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Overview
Overall, both sugars increase over the given time
period and the oil production line has a flat 8 year
interval. In 1982 production was more than consumed,
but in 2006 the opposite was true.
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Overview
Overall,
Reportedly,
As transparent from the data,
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Overall, the electricity consumption of country B, C and D experienced an increasing trend

while the figure for country A witnessed a considerable decrease and that for country E
fluctuated mildly. Of the five countries, although country A consumed the highest amount of
electricity, country B overtook it in the second half of the period.
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Overall, all five countries witnessed an ascending trend in the number of

arrivals, with France experiencing the biggest increase. Among the five,
the USA and France were the most popular destinations in 2010.
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Body 1: Compare 2011

(1) CDs: highest (~55%)
(2) Downloads: second place (~35%)
(3) Streams: lowest (~5%)
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Body 2: Trend 2011-2018
(1) CDs: 2011-2018 decrease
dramatically to ~25%, making it the
least popular method
(2) Downloads: 2011-2014: increase to
over 40 (highest among the three
methods)
(3) Downloads: 2014-2018: decrease
back to second place (at 30%)
(4) Streams: 2011-2018: increase
substantially to over 40%, having
surpassed CDs in 2016 & DL in 2017
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BODY 1:
In 2011, by far the most popular
purchasing method was buying CDs,
with 55% of total sales being physical,
which was approximately 20% higher
than the figure for downloads. In the
same year, streaming music was not
common at all, as only 5% of all sales
came from this.
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BODY 2:
Thereafter, CD sales declined
drastically, amounting to 25% of all
music sales in 2018. Meanwhile,
downloads rose to a peak of nearly
45% in 2014 before registering a
considerable decrease to 30% in the
final year. In contrast, sales
generated from streaming services
increased to a level of over 40% at the
end of the period, overtaking the
figures for CDs and downloads in
2016 and 2017 respectively.
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Body: Paragraph 1 tells the time from 1982 - 1994

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Both lines have the same change in 1994, and
1994 is also in the middle of the given timeframe
=> use 1994 as a landmark separating the 2 time
periods.
During this time, the production line started at 2
million, gradually increased to 3 million in 1986
and then stood still until 1994.
Meanwhile, sugar consumption started at 1.8
million and slowly increased to 3.5 million in 1994.
=> In 1982 around 1.8 million oil barrels were
consumed and 2 million were produced. Over the next
12 years, whilst oil production rose fought to 3 million
in 1986 and subsequently stagnated at this point until
1994, oil consumption underwent a steady rise, with
its figure increasing to 3.5 million in 1994.
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Body: Paragraph 2 is about the time from 1994 to 2006

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During this time, sugar production increased
moderately to 3.8 million in 2006
Sugar consumption increased faster than before
and reached 6.1 million in 2006, higher than
production
From this point onwards, the amount of oil
produced maintained its upward streak, albeit at a
moderate level, and eventually it reached its high
of 3.8 million in 2006. The figure for oil consumed,
meanwhile, surged with an exponential gradient,
making a more than two-fold leap in the last year
alone, by which time it had reached almost 6.1
million barrels, relatively higher compared to the
figure for oil production.
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The graph shows the average Japanese month salary (Yen) from 1953 to 1983, and the prices of black
and white televisions and color televisions during the same period.
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The bar chart shows the percentage of males and females aged 18-20 in a city who participated in
various activities in one month in 2015.
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