IELTS WRITING TIPS GENERAL AND PART 1 ACADEMIC ESSAY

A. General Information
B. Part 1
a. Four Types of Task

b. Diagrams
c. Maps

d. Charts/Tables with dates

e. Charts without dates
f. TASK ACHIEVEMENT
Understanding The Task. 5 things to think about

TASK REQUIREMENT
a. Identify the main groups:
- Agriculture
- Energy and construction
- Manufacturing
- Services
b. Main trends
- Which sectors grew? services
- Which sectors declined? Agriculture, energy an construction and
also manufacturing
- Which sectors fluctuated? Or whoever a lot of changes.
Manufacturing (grow and started to decline)
c. Key features:
- What are the highest figures? Manufacturing in 1910, services from
1930 onwards.
- What are the lowest figures? Agriculture; energy and construction.
- What are the peaks? Manufacturing in 1950 (top of mountain)
- What are the trough? No trough
Notes :
- Figures = dates, numbers
- No contractions, no informal words, no idioms, no abbreviations
g. COHERENCE AND COHESION
Structuring Your Report
- The best way to structure your report (coherence)
1. Introduction
- The easiest way to write an introduction is to paraphrase the
question
- Do not copy words from the task directly
 - Synonym : shows – illustrates. To - till
- Changing the form of the word: the levels of employment in
different – how many people were employed in four…
- Adding words: chart – bar chart, sectors- industry sectors

2. Overview
Recommend: place after introduction. Encourage start with overall

3. Body Paragraph
4 ways to link sentences together (cohesion)
h. Lecical Resources
Synonyms

Describe the word

Change the form of word

Add words
i. Grammar
HOW TO WRITE EACH TYPE OF ESSAY

4 Steps of Planning your Essay

1. Read the task
2. Select and report the main features
3. Structure your essay

4. Prepare the overview

EXAMPLES
CHARTS WITHOUT DATES
MAPS
DIAGRAMS