IELTS Writing Task 1 (academic)

Tips and techniques

1. Describing line graphs
2. Avoid these mistakes
3. First impressions / outline
4. Line graph overview

Report writing skills

1. Describing a location
2. Describing numbers
3. Past and future
4. Correct the sentences
5. Singular or plural?
6. Paraphrasing
7. Advanced cohesion
8. Noticing verb tenses
9. Paragraph organisation
10. One perfect sentence
11. Perfect sentence problems
12. Perfect sentence practice
13. Correct the sentences
14. Adding figures

Model Answers

Line graphs

1. Car ownership
2. Internet users
3. Migration
4. Acid rain emissions
5. Elderly populations
6. TV and radio audiences

Bar charts

1. Fast food
2. Museum visitors
3. Education and science
4. Consumer goods spending
5. House prices
6. Marriage and divorce rates
7. Transport incidents
8. Reasons for study

Pie charts

1. Hotel survey
2. Water usage
3. Comparing diets
4. Electricity production

Tables

1. Coffee and banana sales
2. Poverty and family types
3. Daily activities
4. Consumer spending

Process diagrams

1. Cement production
2. Recycling office equipment
3. Weather forecast
4. Coffee production

Comparison diagrams / maps

1. Town development plans
2. Art Gallery redevelopment
3. Park plans

Two different charts

1. Graph and table: water use
2. Bar and pie chart: travel