INTRODUCTION
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IELTS WRITING TASK 1
What are they asking you to do in a report?
They’re asking you to describe the main points of the diagram. When I say “describe”, I mean you will tell them what the diagram looks like? For example, I have a diagram that shows fast food consumption has increased/ has grown/ has risen; I don’t need to say “fast food consumption has risen because fast food is delicious and affordable”. No, you don’t need to explain, ok? Explaining is what you are going to do to essays in task 2 writing. Therefore, in task 1 writing, your job is to describe the main points of a diagram.
What is a diagram?
You might be asking. That’s a good question. These are all examples of diagrams.
Diagrams are pictures that convey information, usually numbers. This is a type of diagram called flow chart, and a flow chart shows us how to do something, a method to do something.
(Image of a flow chart showing a process like mining, crushing, filtering, kilning, drying, moulding, delivery)
Here, this is a type of diagram called line chart or a line graph. It shows changes over time/ over a period of time.
(Image of a line graph showing consumption of Hamburger, Fish & Chips, and Pizza from 1970 to 1990)
And here is a type of diagram called a table. You’re very familiar with tables. Every time you go to restaurants, every time you look at a menu, you are looking at the table. Every time you go to the KFC, you’re looking at a table. Every time you go to the airport, and you see the arrival time, the departure time, you’re looking at a table. These are very common in our lives.
(Image of a table titled “Selected leisure activities” showing participation rates in the four weeks before the interview (by age) for Leisure activities like Watching TV/ DVDs, Visiting/ entertaining friends/ relations, Listening to music, Reading books, DIY, Gardening, Dressmaking/Needlework/Knitting, broken down by age groups 16-19, 25-29, 60-69)
Another type of diagram is a pie chart. We use a pie chart to show a percentage out of 100. That’s why we use a pie chart.
(Image of two pie charts, one labeled 1936 showing trees, post office, sweet shop, butcher, library, cycle path, government offices, farm land, river, and another labeled 2007 showing tree, post office, supermarket, shopping centre, travel agent, bank, library, museum, golf course, road, river)
These are all types of diagrams that you need to be familiar with so you can describe them in task 1 writing.
All right, when it comes to task 1 writing, there are a few rules you need to pay your attention to. First of all, task 1 requires 150 words minimum. If you write fewer than 150 words, you’re going to face a penalty. Therefore, you should try to write at least 150 words. I will tell you that it will be difficult for you to get a high score if you’re only writing 150 words. You probably need to write 200 or 210 words to get a high score (7.5 – 8.0).
For task 2 writing, it needs 250 words minimum, and the essay is worth 2/3 of your score. It’s worth twice of Task 1. Therefore, I would like to tell you that you should write task 2 first and spend 40 minutes on it.
Now, we will focus on task 1 writing, we will be describing different kinds of diagrams.
How are they marking you? How are they assessing you? How are they giving you a score in task 1 writing?
Let’s look at the IELTS writing task 1 band score descriptors below:
First of all, the IELTS examiner will mark your test according to four categories:
- Task Achievement (25%)
- Coherence and Cohesion (25%)
- Lexical Resource (25%)
- Grammatical Range and Accuracy (25%)
Now, what do these things means?
1. Task achievement: this is how well you fulfil your job, how well you describe something; how much information you have included; how you have selected information that you put in your writing, and write at least 150 words.
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