WRITING LESSON 7

Lesson focus Uncommon tasks & Revision

I. UNCOMMON TASKS

Practice 1

The diagrams below show the development of the horse over a period of 40
million years. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main
features, and make comparisons where relevant.

* Vocabularies:

- hoof (n): móng guốc

- circa (pre): khoảng

- mane (n): bờm

- paw (n): chân (thú có móng vuốt)

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Model essay
The picture describes the horse's evolution from 40 million years ago until now, focusing on
the bone structure of its foot. Overall, as the animal gets more prominent in size and longer
limbs, the toes disappear one by one, eventually replaced by a sole hoof.
Eohippus, which existed circa 40 million years ago, was the ancestor of the horse. It was
much smaller, standing at about one-fourth the size of a modern horse. All four legs and the
tail were relatively short, and, on each paw, there were distinctively four toes. About 10
million years later, the Eohippus became the Mesohippus, which was slightly larger and
taller. The foot had lost one toe, and the middle toe had enlarged to create a symmetrical
structure. Notably, the Mesohippus had started to develop what would become the
horse mane.
At around 15 million years ago, the Merychippus appeared. This pre-historic horse largely
resembled the modern horse but at about half the size. The foot still had three toes, but the
middle one was greater in size and protruded more to the front. The mane had also become
more visible. Finally, the horse today has all the toes reduced just to a single hoof. It is taller,
with lengthier limbs, a more defined tail, and a clearer mane on the neck.

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Practice 2

The diagrams below show how sand dunes are formed. Summarise the
information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.

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Model essay

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Practice 3

The diagram below shows how the Australian Bureau of Meteorology collects
up-to-the-minute information on the weather in order to produce reliable forecasts.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.

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II. REVISION

Practice 4

The table below gives data on the hour of leisure time per year for people in
Someland. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the
information in the table below.

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Practice 5

The graph below shows the Alcohol-related deaths in seven different countries and the
average beer consumption in 2005.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the description of the
correlation of the table that follows.

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Practice 6

Plan A below shows a health centre in 2005. Plan B shows the same place in the
present day. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the description
of the correlation of the table that follows.

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Practice 7

The following diagram shows how greenhouse gases trap energy from the Sun.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the description of the
correlation of the table that follows.

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Practice 8

The graph below shows the top priorities by business companies in the USA in 2016.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the description of the
correlation of the table that follows.

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