Writing Task 1 Vocabulary

IELTs task 1 is generally a:

Bar Chart / line chart

Pie Chart

Map

Aim:

to establish
knowledge about the
format of IELTS
Academic Writing

Target
Audience:

teacher

Relevance
to IELTS:

Academic Writing

Table

Useful Vocabulary
Expressing movement: nouns and
verbs
Rose (to)
increased to
went up to
climbed to
boomed
fell (to)
declined (to)
decreased (to)
dipped (to)
dropped (to)
fall)
went down (to)
reduced (to)

a rise
an increase
growth
an upward
trend
a boom (a dramatic rise)
a decrease
a decline
a fall
a drop
a slump (a dramatic
a reduction

levelled out (at)

a levelling out
did not change
no change
remained stable (at)
remained steady (at)
stayed (at)
stayed constant (at)
maintained the same level
fluctuated (around)
a fluctuation
peaked (at)
reached a peak
(of)
stood at (use this phrase to focus on a
particular point, before we mention the
movement, for example: In the first year,
unemployment stood at...)

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Describing the movement: adjectives

and adverbs
dramatic
sharp
huge
enormous
steep
substantial
considerable
significant
marked
moderate
slight
small
minimal

dramatically
sharply
enormousely
steeply
substantially
considerably
significantly
markedly
moderately
slighty
minimally

describing the speed of change

Adjective
rapid
quick
swift
sudden
steady
gradual
slow

adverbs
rapidly
quickly
swiftly
suddenly
steadily
gradually
slowly

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