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Course IELTS on the move (band 3.0 – 4.0)

Week 4_L8_Preclass_Tourism | Writing

I. Content (Nội dung bài học) 

 Vocabulary and grammar:

Verbs

The number vs. the amount

Making comparisons

 Writing skills: Comparison bar charts

Introduction: How to write an introduction

Overview: How to summarise the key features

Body: How to categorise data

II. Preparation
Exercise 1: Find out the grammatical errors in the following sentences.

1. Motorbike is the most popular means of transport in 2010.

2. There was many people travel abroad by plane.

3. The amount of foreigners who went to Vietnam in 2020 was approximately 3.66 million.

4. 500,000 tourist went to Da Nang in this spring.

5. Da Nang attracts nearly 500,000 foreign tourists in the first three months of 2023.

Exercise 2: Compare the data below

E.g.
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300,000 men went to Da Nang in June.

600,000 women went to Da Nang in June.

=> The number of women who went to Da Nang in June was twice as high as that of men.

=> The number of women who went to Da Nang in June was higher than that of men.

=> More women went to Da Nang in June than men.

=> Less men went to Da Nang in June than women.

Choose at least two ways to compare.

1. Bus attracts 200 passengers per day. Train attracts 150 passengers per day.

2. There were 300,000 foreign tourists who visited Ha Long Bay. There were 600,000
domestic tourists who visited Ha Long Bay.

Exercise 3: The number vs. the amount

The number: How many => The number of + Countable nouns (danh từ đếm được)

The amount: How much => The amount of + Uncountable nouns (danh từ không đếm được)

Fill in the blanks with a suitable noun

1. The number of ……………………..who went abroad is higher and higher.

2. She reduced the ……………….. of hours she works each week in order to travel.

3. The ……….. of time he spent travelling used to be more than 30%.

4. We travelled a …………….. of miles before we realised we were lost.

5. Many people spend a large ……………….of money on travelling abroad.

Exercise 4: Analyse the bar chart below

1 – What is the subject? (Đối tượng được mô tả là gì?

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2 – Where and when the information is collected? (Số liệu được lấy ở đâu, khi nào?)

3 – What is described in the horizontal axis and the vertical axis? (Cái gì được mô tả ở trục
ngang và trục thẳng đứng?)

4 – What is described in different colours?