ielts writing task

General information• Time: 20 minutes + 2 -3 minutes: understand the question + details + 15 minutes: write quickly Answer all parts of questions Paraphrase information General – detail/

Task 1 writing

ielts

General information

• Time: 20 minutes

+ 2 -3 minutes: understand the question + details + 15 minutes: write quickly

Answer all parts of questions

Paraphrase information

General – detail/ specific

+ 2 minutes: check-up: punctuation, content,

coherence, spelling

• Word limit: 150 words (170 words preferred)

H0W TO ORGANIZE TASK 1

• Introduction: paraphrase from the question

• Body: general trend – specific trend

• Conclusion: no need

- No comment + own idea

Unit 1

describing trends

• Nouns and verbs

(a dramatic rise)

-

• Noun and verbs

remained stable at remained steady at stayed constant at maintained the same level

Unit 1 (cont)

• Degree of change

Dramaticdramatically

Sharp sharply

Huge

Enormous enormously

Steep steeply

Substantial substantially

Considerable considerably

Significant significantly

Marked markedly

Moderate moderately

Slight slightly

Small

Minimal minimally

The speed of change

Rapid rapidly Quick quickly Swift swiftly Sudden suddenly Steady steadily Gradual gradually Slow slowly

Unit 2 (use comparison)

• More males than females choose the TV.

• Fewer males than females choose mobile phone.

• The TV was more popular among males than females.

• The most popular form of communication was the

internet

• As many females as males rank TV as the least

important invention.

• Nearly as many females as males rank TV as the least important invention.

• Not as many females as males rank cars as the most important invention.

• Slightly/ considerably/ substantially/ more women than men voted for the bicycles

Unit 2 (cont)

• Red is the most popular car colour

• Professional is the second most prevalent employment category

• Spain is the least common holiday

destination

• Twice as many women are employed in ABC company as …

• Far more women are employed in ABC

company than…

Helpful expressions

• The diagram reveals that…

• To some extent: trong 1 chung muc nao do

• To a lesser extent: trong pham vi/ qui mo nho hon

• A glance at … reflects : nhin qua… cho thay rang

• A similar situation was seen…mot truong hop tuong tu duoc nhin thay la