IELTS

WRITING
TASK 1- 02
STRUCTURE BUILDING
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SINGLE DATA SOURCE STRUCTURE

Paragraph 1: Overview

1. Data type description

2. Broad sentence : describe the trend from beginning to end

Paragraph 2: Analysing
3. Minor detail (minute detail)
4. Minor detail (minute detail)
5. Minor detail (minute detail)
6. Minor detail (minute detail)
7. Conclusion (final data)

Paragraph 3: Interpretation
8. Explanation: why the data shows what it does
9. Elaboration : relationships between other trends depicted in the data
10.source
Summary/ prediction/ comment
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Paragraph 1: Overview
1. Data type description:
The charts graphically outline the average hours of sunlight,
temperature and millimeters of rainfall Montreal experiences in a given
year.

2. Broad sentence :

The trends presented for daily sunlight hours and temperature appear
to be positively correlated and depict an annual arc while rainfall over
the course of the year remains stable, with only minor volatility.

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Paragraph 2: Analysing

3. Minor detail (minute detail):

Daily sunshine hours begin a typical year at roughly 2 and climb gradually to
8 in June.
4. Minor
detail (minute detail):
This figure remains constant for 3 months before starting a gradual decline
to roughly 2 in November and December.

5. Minor detail (minute detail):

Montreal temperatures mimic this trend, beginning at a monthly average of

-10 degrees Celsius in January , gradually climbing to a peak of 24 degrees
Celsius in June, then gradually returning to -10 by December.

6. Minor detail (minute detail):

Rain experiences slight volatility over the course of the year, varying from
as high as almost 100 milimeters to as low as less than 80 milimeters.

7. Conclusion (final data):

There does not appear to be any identifiable pattern to these monthly
variations.
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Paragraph 3: Interpretation
8. Explanation:
Data presented in these charts does not appear to depict any abnormal
meteorological trends.

9. Elaboration :
Basically as sunlight hours increase, so does Montreals temperature.

10. Summary/ prediction/ comment:

It is assumed Montreals northern geographical location accounts for a wide
variation of temperatures, sunlight hours and amount of rainfall experiences
over the course of a given year.

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EXERCISE 1

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Broad details
negatively
correlated

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minor details
minute details

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STRUCTURE
Paragraph 1: Overview
1. Data type description
2. Broad sentence : describe the trend from beginning to end

Paragraph 2: Analysing
3. Minor detail (minute detail)
4. Minor detail (minute detail)
5. Minor detail (minute detail)

Paragraph 3: Analysing

6. Minor detail (minute detail)

7. Minor detail (minute detail)
8. Minor detail (minute detail)
9. Conclusion
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Paragraph 1: Overview
1. Data type description:
The graph shows marriage, divorce and remarriage numbers in the
United Kingdom between the year 1961 and 1999.

2. Broad sentence :
There appear to be a somewhat negative relationship between first
marriage rates and the rates of divorces and remarriages.

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Paragraph 2: Analysing

3. Minor detail (minute detail):

According to the data, there were just shy of 350,000 first marriages in
1961. detail (minute detail):
4. Minor
This value grew in a slightly unstable manner to a peak in 1970 of 400,00
before dropping to 270,000 in 1978.

5. Minor detail (minute detail):

What followed this was a period of very gradual decrease until 250,000 first
marriages was hit in 1991.

6. Minor detail (minute detail):

This downward progression accelerated mildly until 1999, when first
marriage numbers were roughly 200,000.

7. Conclusion (final data):

There does not appear to be any identifiable pattern to these monthly
variations.
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Paragraph 3: Analysing

8. Minor detail (minute detail):

Divorce and remarriage numbers, however, moved in the opposite direction.

9. Minor detail (minute detail):

There were roughly 25,000 divorces in the UK in 1961 and over the next
decade this number swelled to 125,000.

10. Minor detail (minute detail):

A period of modest, yet unstable, growth then occurred and carried on until
about 1984 when a plateau of just over 150,000 was reached. Light variation
of this value continued until 1971.

11. Conclusion (final data):

Remarriages showed similar growth, increasing from 50,000 in 1961 to
125,000 in 1971. The remaining period was marked by a relatively stable
plateau of approximately 120,000 remarriages per year.

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EXERCISE 2

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