IELTS Writing Course: Answer Sheet: W11
Name:
Date:
Focus: Task 1 Paragraph 1
Task: Language notes:
Paragraph 1: what the charts show
Important: include all key details in your description of the chart
(A) Key pattern for charts and tables
The bar chart shows the amount of.. [percentage of] [quantity of] [number of]
[volume of]…[something] that [was] [past participle]
Note:
1. important pattern: the amount of something that was (past participle)
2. amount of / percentage of / quantity of / number of / volume of
3. illustrates (pictures - diagrams) / shows (normal) / gives information about
4. top (first) chart / bottom (second) graph
5. line graph / bar chart / pie chart / flow chart / diagram / map / table
(B) Language for categories / groups etc.
1. simply list the categories: by A, B, and C.
2. divided by [grouped by] age [sex] [marital status] [type of (s/t)]
3. (divided into two [number / several] groups [categories] by
[age/sex/frequency/nationality etc]
Example:
Q1 (A)
The line graph shows the amount of water that was used globally divided into
three categories - agriculture, industry and homes - between 1900 and 2000.
The line graph shows the amount of water that was used globally by agriculture,
industry and in homes, in the 100 year period between 1900 and 2000.
(C) Useful synonyms or near synonyms:
(i) types of / forms of / categories of / means of
(ii) items / goods
(iii) carried / transported
(D) Future: a forecast / a prediction (of future consumption / production / use)
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Example:
Q7 ...together with a forecast [of future consumption] until 2030.
(E) together with: a good way to refer to TWO things shown by THE SAME chart
or table etc.
“together with” adding two topics (e.g. the graph shows X AND Y – X together
with Y – this requires X and Y to have the SAME subject – for example, the same
graph
(F) Key pattern for processes
The diagram [flow chart] illustrates [shows / describes] the (complex [involved] /
four stage / multi-stage) process by which XXX is produced (from YYY / by YYY /
in a YYY)
Or:
illustrates the stages in the XXX of (the) YYY (from / in ZZZ)
Alternatives:
is produced from (in) / is generated from (in) / is made from
Example:
Q27: The top diagram illustrates the stages in the life of the silkworm and the
bottom flow chart shows the (quite complex) process by which silk cloth is
produced from [made from] the silk from the silkworm
(G) Key language for maps/ plans:
Note: these questions often contrast now with past, or now with future plans.
as it is currently / as it used to be / as it was / as it will be / look (after / when
the (re) development (is completed / has been completed))
Example
Q15 The two diagrams show the university sports centre as it is currently and as
it will be when the redevelopment (work) has been completed.
Practice Exercises
Write paragraph 1 for the questions below following the examples and using the
language suggestions above.
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IELTS Writing Course: Answer Sheet: W11
Ref: W11: Name the file: IELTS-W11-(your name)
1 Q1
Ans: The top line graph shows the amount of water used globally by agriculture,
industry and in homes between 1900 and 2000, and the table below shows the
amount of water used per person in Brazil and Congo in 2000, together with the
amount of irrigated land and the population of the two countries.
2 Q5
Ans: The bar chart gives information about the number of minutes of three different
types of phone calls - local fixed line calls, national and international fixed line
calls, and mobile calls - that were made in the UK between 1995 and 2002.
3 Q7
Ans: The line graph shows that amount of electricity that was produced from six
different types of fuel in the USA from 1980 to 2008, together with a forecast
until 2030.
4 Q8
Ans: The bar chart gives information about the proportion of men and women in
Australia who regularly exercised in 2010, divided into six age groups/ divided
into six groups by age.
5 Q11
Ans: The bar chart gives information about the percentage of people in the USA who
ate in fast food restaurants in the years 2003, 2006 and 2013, divided into six
groups by frequency.
6 Q12
Ans: The first map illustrates access to a city hospital by road as it used to be in 2007,
and the second shows the same access as it was in 2010 after redevelopment.
7 Q13
Ans: The bar chart gives information about the proportion of families who bought or
rented their home in England and Wales from 1918 to 2011.
8 Q14
Ans: The bar chart gives information about the ten countries that produced and
consumed the most energy in 2014.
9 Q15
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Ans: The first map ilustrates a university's sports center as it is currently, and the
second shows it as it will be after renovation is completed.
10 Q17
Ans: The diagram illustrates the process by which weather forecast is prepared and
broadcast/ produced by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
11 Q25
Ans: The digram illustrates the process by which hydroelectric energy is produced/
generated in a power plant.
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