IELTS Writing Task 1 (academic)

Tips and techniques

1. Describing line graphs
2. Avoid these mistakes
3. First impressions / outline
4. Line graph overview
5. The most common mistake
6. Overview, not conclusion
7. The overview
8. Eleven overview tips
9. The most important skill

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
15. A student’s sentence
16. Describing age groups
17. Useful phrases exercise
18. Rise or raise?
19. Fall or reduce?
20. Using words from the chart
21. ‘Real’ report writing
22. Using ‘in terms of’
23. Using ‘with’ and ‘at’
24. Finish my overview
25. 4 numbers in 1 sentence
26. Different word forms
27. Two charts overview
28. Using the passive
29. Important little words
30. Charts showing countries
31. Using a model sentence
32. Variety and repetition
33. Using ‘to’ and ‘by’
34. Paraphrasing with numbers
35. 10-year or 10 years?
36. Correct the mistakes
37. Show, compare, illustrate
38. Diagram paraphrasing
39. Describing steps

Model Answers

Line graphs

1. Car ownership
2. Internet users
3. Migration
4. Acid rain emissions
5. Elderly populations
6. TV and radio audiences
7. Children’s sports
8. Waste
9. Food and oil

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
9. Population age distribution
10. Further education
11. Phone calls
12. Internet and video games

Pie charts

1. Hotel survey
2. Water usage
3. Comparing diets
4. Electricity production
5. Dangerous waste
6. Tourist attractions

Tables

1. Coffee and banana sales
2. Poverty and family types
3. Daily activities
4. Consumer spending
5. Waste production
6. Educational problems

Process diagrams

1. Cement production
2. Recycling office equipment
3. Weather forecast
4. Coffee production
5. Salmon life cycle
6. Silkworm life cycle
7. Sugar manufacture

Comparison diagrams / maps

1. Town development plans
2. Art Gallery redevelopment
3. Park plans
4. Flood protection methods
5. School changes

Two different charts

1. Water use
2. Travel
3. Land degradation
4. Living alone