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GRAMMAR FOR IELTS

W1 Maps
Graphs, charts and tables Diagrams • Present Simple Active: To describe a map
• Present Simple Active: When no time • Present Simple Passive: To describe from nowadays.
periods are given. industrial, agricultural or business processes. • Past Simple Active: To describe a map from
• Past Simple Active: When a definite past • Present Perfect Passive: When using the the past.
time period is given. words ‘once’ or ‘after’. • Present Perfect Passive: To describe
• Present Perfect Active: When the • Present Simple Active: To describe changes between the past and the present maps.
situation/action in the past is still true or is related biological or natural processes. • Past Perfect Passive: When using the word
to the present. • is + to + infinitive: When mentioning which ‘by’ to compare two maps from the past.
• Past Perfect Active: When two periods of step it is. • Used to: To describe a map from the past.
time in the past are given. • Passive modal verbs: To describe a ‘how to’ • Future Simple Active: To describe a map that
• Possibility in the future: When there are process. shows projections for the future.
projections into the future.
• The pigments are mixed and then diluted. • Making comparisons: When given two maps
• Making comparisons: When given two • After a contract has been signed, it becomes
inputs separate or in the same graph. • There is a large hotel next to the beach.
law. Once the coffee is selected, it is put in • There was a coffee shop on the corner. A hotel
• People over 65 send and receive the lowest plastic bags.
stood in front of the park.
number of text messages. • Finally, the butterfly emerges from the cocoon. • The forest has been replaced by a mall.
• In the 1950’s half of the population of the US • The final step is to let it dry. • By 2010, a new bridge had been built to cross
lived in rural areas. • Next, the two holes must/should be lined up
the river.
• The number of internet users has increased carefully. • There used to be a restaurant in front of the
significantly since 2000. hotel but now…/The restaurant that used to be
• Only 15% of people lived in cities in 1850, but in front of the hotel was relocated to…
by 2000, that number had reached 70%. MIX THEM!!!!! • At the moment there is one mall but three
• The urban population in the US may reach years from now there will be four malls in the
80% by 2050. area.

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