Focus on IELTS Academic Skills Unit 9,10

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WRITING THE CONCLUSION 4 Remember that your conclusion should summarise the information, not

explain it

Choose which of these three final sentences best summarises the information in the diagrams

Overall, the diagrams suggest that

a) both Australia and Peru benefit from El Nifio conditions

b) it is changes in the relative wind strength that brings about El Nifio conditions

¢) El Nifio conditions are caused by different weather in Australia and Peru

GRAMMAR 5 Read the sample answer again and answer these questions

1 What tenses are used in the description?

2 Underline all examples of passive verb forms

3 Underline all examples of -ing participle clauses

EDITING FOR LANGUAGE 6 a Find ten common mistakes in this extract from a student answer and

Common mistakes

1 Wrong spelling

2 Active/passive verbs confused

At the beginning, in normal conditions we can see that the wind is 3 Agreement (subject-verb or

blown the warm water to the west causes cool water to rise up to modifier-noun}

4 Wrong word form

5 Wrong word or expression

The diagram give.information about the Et Nifio current in the

Pacific Ocean

the suface in the east This bring rich nutrients, abling the number

of fish to increase In this conditions Peru get sunshine and

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b Now correct the mistakes

SPEED WRITING PRACTICE 7 Without looking again at the sample answer, do the writing task You have ¡

already spent time analysing the task so you should spend no more than 15 ; minutes on writing and editing Remember:

Don’t copy your introduction from the Writing task

End with a summary of the data

Write at least 150 words

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