Review: Describing A Chart Accurately — IELTS Word Forms: Fix The Words You Already Know

What You Should Now Control

Five things this chapter taught. Tick only what you could do with a chart in front of you and twenty minutes on the clock.

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Tick what you can do right now

Sort the Whole Chapter

Twenty items, mixed. Put each one back with the job it does.

Sort each item into the correct category

Names the movement

Sizes or times it

Reports a figure

Compares two things

Frames the response

Unassigned

remain stable

growth

reach

double

rapidly

constant

noticeable

minor

percentage

three-quarters

the figure for

ratio

different from

compared with

the greatest

similar to

the graph shows

the most noticeable feature

in the final year

a similar pattern can be seen in

Mixed Recall

Ten questions across the chapter. Several options are grammatical and still misreport the chart.

Weighted towards the three sprints that decide most Task 1 marks: change words, numbers and comparison.

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Which sentence would be marked as inaccurate?

One Paragraph, Five Clusters

A complete short Task 1 response with something missing from every sprint.

Fill each gap with ONE word unless the hint says otherwise. Check every describing word against the figures before you move on.

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Adults using public libraries in three cities (%)

| | 2005 | 2015 | | --- | --- | --- | | Bristol | 48 | 31 | | Leeds | 44 | 30 | | Cardiff | 22 | 24 |

The table information about the percentage of adults using public libraries in three cities in 2005 and 2015.

, library use fell sharply in two of the three cities, while Cardiff moved in the opposite direction. The most feature is that the gap between the cities narrowed considerably.

In the first year, the for Bristol was the highest of the three, at 48 per cent. Leeds was to Bristol at 44 per cent, while Cardiff recorded than half that figure.

By 2015 both Bristol and Leeds had by seventeen and fourteen percentage points respectively. Cardiff, by contrast, slightly, from 22 to 24 per cent.

In the year the three cities were far closer together, and the gap had narrowed from 26 percentage points to just seven.

Chapter Production Task

A complete short Task 1 response — marked for accuracy against the data first.

Write a short but complete Task 1 response — an introduction, an overview, and one detail paragraph.

Percentage of journeys made by bicycle in three cities

| | 2010 | 2020 | | --- | --- | --- | | Amsterdam | 38 | 41 | | Copenhagen | 30 | 39 | | Dublin | 4 | 11 |

Three short paragraphs:

Introduction — what the table shows, over what period. No figures.
Overview — the two or three biggest things anyone would notice. Still no figures.
One detail paragraph — here the figures go.

Use at least six Chapter 5 items across the three.

Check every describing word against the table before you submit. Dublin's figure nearly tripled but is still the smallest of the three — a word that gets either of those facts wrong is a misreport, and in Task 1 that costs more than a plain word ever would.

Your three paragraphs*

Introduction, overview, one detail paragraph. Six or more chapter items.

Which chapter items did you use?*

Just the items, separated by commas.

Your Weakest Cluster

Name the one you would hesitate on with a chart in front of you.

Learners can ask follow-up questions and keep the thread going.

Five clusters in this chapter:

change words · size and speed · numbers and proportions · comparing · Task 1 frames

Which one would slow you down most with a real chart in front of you?

Name it. Then tell me whether the problem is not knowing the word, or knowing it and not being sure it matches the chart.

Those are different problems. The first is revision. The second is the habit of checking your word against the data before you write the next sentence.

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