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Hello and welcome. My name is Eli and today we

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're looking at the different

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graphic types that can appear in Academic Task 1

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. Let's get into it.

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Welcome back. We're going to look at the

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different graphic types that can appear

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in Academic Task 1 and what should be included

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in your answer. Let's have a

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look at the slides. So there are eight different

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graphic types. We have tables,

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line graphs, bar graphs, a stacked bar graph,

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pie charts, process diagram, map

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diagrams and even a combination of these. So for

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example here we have a bar graph

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and a pie chart. It's important that you

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practice all of these different graphic

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types before you go to do your IELTS writing

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exam. And what we're going to do

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today in this video is actually go through each

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of these different graphic

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types and talk about what your answer needs to

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include. Now before we do that

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we need to have a look at what the examiner is

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looking for in your answer,

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especially in regard to task achievement. The

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first thing is that you mention all

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of the key features. So for example if you have

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a table that mentions six

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countries you need to mention all six of those

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countries. If you only mention five

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of those countries you will be marked down.

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Secondly you need to have a clear

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overview. Now an overview is a general

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description of the graphic and we're

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going to cover that in its own video, but just

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to let you know it's very important

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that you have an overview. What I tell my

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students is it's a good

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idea to make it obvious that your answer has an

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overview by starting your

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overview with overall comma and then your

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overview. That way the examiner

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cannot miss it. You also need to have data or

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evidence from the graphic. So for

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example you can't just say Spain experienced

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rapid growth, you should say

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Spain experienced rapid growth from 3% in 1999

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to 42% in 2015. This is made-up

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data for the sake of this video, but

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highlighting the importance of including

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data in your analysis. The next thing is we need

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to make comparisons of the data.

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We can't just say China grew quickly, we should

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say China grew at a quicker rate

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than England over these years, for example. The

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final thing is we shouldn't

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have irrelevant or inaccurate information. So

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what is irrelevant and

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inaccurate information? Well irrelevant

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information is usually a hypothesis or

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speculating on the reasons for the graphic. This

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is something we do not need

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to do in task one. So for example a good answer

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would just be China's economy

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grew after 2002. A bad answer would be China's

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economy probably grew because of

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focus on technology. We don't need to speculate

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on the reasons behind the data,

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we just need to report and analyze the data.

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Also we should not include

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inaccurate information. Inaccurate information

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is when we report the data

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incorrectly. So for example it grew at 25% and

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we say it grew at 30%. These kind

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of inaccuracies will also mark us down for IELTS

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writing score. For the sake of

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this video we're going to focus mainly on the

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first category, mentioning the key

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features. So the first graphic type that we're

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going to focus on is the table. So

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here's a typical table graphic that we will see

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in an IELTS question. It says

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the table below shows the number of students who

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went abroad for further

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education from eight countries in 2005 and 2015

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and the percentage change

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between 2005 and 2015. So what kind of key

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information do we need in our answer?

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Well we have eight countries. We have Brazil,

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Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan,

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South Korea and the United States. If you don't

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mention one of these countries you

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will be marked down. We also have two dates 2005

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and 2015. You need to mention

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both of these dates. And finally we also have a

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category on the percentage

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change. Again mention this otherwise you will

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lose marks. Ultimately in IELTS

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academic task one the more data the better. Now

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that's not to say that we

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should mechanically report data in the graphic.

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For example in Brazil in 2005

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there were 11,000 students. In 2015 there were

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23,000 students. In Canada

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there were 37,000. We shouldn't do this. We

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shouldn't mechanically report the

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data but the more data we report in a gramm

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atically sound way the better.

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Let's have a look at a... oh and one last thing.

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Remember don't speculate on why

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the data has changed. So for example we don't

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need to say Chinese students went

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abroad more between 2005 and 2015 because there

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was a general trend in

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studying abroad. We don't need to speculate on

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the reasons behind the data.

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Let's continue. The next graphic type we're

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going to look at is a line graph

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or line chart. So what kind of key information

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do we have here? We should

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mention the different categories of sport.

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American football, baseball,

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basketball, hockey and other sports. So we

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should mention all five of these

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categories. It's a good idea to mention the

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order of favorite sports. So for

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example in 1985 we can see that American

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football was the most popular and other

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sports were the least popular but then this

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trend changed by 2015. We should

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also mention the beginning and end dates. So

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1985 and

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2015. A good idea is also to mention when trends

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change. For example before 2005 we

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can see that other sports became more popular

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than hockey and just before 2010

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basketball became more popular than baseball.

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Again the more data the better.

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Some other data that we can include would be the

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gradual decline in hockey,

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the fact that basketball dipped in 1990 and the

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relatively steep and consistent

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decline in baseball over the period. All of this

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data is useful to include and

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there's much much more data that we can include

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in our answer. The next graphic

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type that we're going to focus on are bar graphs

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. So here we have a typical bar

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graph question from the IELTS Academic Task 1

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and the key information are all

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four sectors. We have education, retail, finance

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and IT. It's important that you

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mention all four of these and we have three

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dates 2008, 2018 and 2028 which is

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a prediction and it's important that we show the

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examiner that we realize 2028

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is a prediction. Again it's important, a good

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idea would be to mention when

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trends change and so for example the way that

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retail was the most popular in 2008

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but by 2028 finance, the finance sector is seen

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to be more likely to be the most

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popular sector. Again the more data the better.

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So for example we could talk

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about the increases in popularity of IT or the

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large decrease in retail etc.

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Let's now focus on the stacked bar graph. So a

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stacked bar graph, what kind of

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key information do we have? Well we want to

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mention all five of the categories

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which in this case are all five store types,

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electronic stores, clothing stores,

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supermarkets, cafes and pharmacies. We also want

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to mention all three dates.

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We've got 2000, 2005 and 2010. If you miss out

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one of these dates you will be

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marked down lower so make sure to mention all of

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them. We also when it

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comes to a stacked bar graph, we also have a

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general trend of all of the

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stores so we can see that that is rising. For

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example the the cumulative quantity

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of these stores is increasing between 2000 and

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2010 and we would want to

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mention that. Again we can mention what trends

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change and again the more data

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the better. Let's now look at pie charts. Again

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key

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information, we've got three countries India,

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France and the United States. We

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also have different age categories under 18, 18

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to 30, 31 to 50 and over 51. It's

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always important to look at other numbers around

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the pie charts and

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here we have the total number of visitors. For

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example 6.58 million

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visitors to India. We also have a number for

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France and the United States. Again

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the more data the better. Let's look at the next

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graphic type which is a process

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diagram. Now this is the process for making a

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bottle of wine. What kind of

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information should we include in our answer?

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Well we have eight steps in total

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so it's important to mention all eight of those

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steps. We can also see from the

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graphic that the compost, the waste is composted

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and this happens at three

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different stages of the process of making wine

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so we would want to show the

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examiner that we noticed that. We can also point

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out that this is a process

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for making one bottle and again the more data

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the better. For example we can point

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out that there are 400 ripe grapes needed to

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make one bottle of wine. The

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fermentation process takes two weeks and

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whatever other data we can

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extract from this diagram. Okay next we have a

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map diagram. So what kind of

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information should we include in a map diagram?

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Well we want to mention the

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time frames of the map. So we can see the first

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map is an office now, the second

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map is an office plan for 2025. So this is a

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plan for the future. We would want

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to emphasize that we have noticed that. A good

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idea when we have maps is to

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highlight all of the things that are the same

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and all of the things that are

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different between the two maps. Again the more

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data the better. The more that we

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can write in that 20 or 25 minutes that we give

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ourselves for task one the

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better. And finally more than one graphic. Now

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it's just important that you

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mention the two different types of graphic and a

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good way to do this is to

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focus on one graphic and then the next. In this

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example we would focus on the

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bar graph and we would point out that we have

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three regions, Latin America, the Far

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East and Africa and two dates. We would also

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look at the second bar graph and

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point out all of the costs that are associated.

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So that's the farmer cost, the

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shop staff taxes, export profit and shop and

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rent. And we would also want to

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mention the percentage of each cost. Again the

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more data the better. So in

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summary we can say there are eight different

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types of graphic and you

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should be practicing all of them before the IEL

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TS writing test. Don't miss out

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any of these key features whether it's a country

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, a date or a prediction because

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you will lose marks. So take four minutes to

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analyze the graphic before you start

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writing. You should report as much data as

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possible especially aiming if you're

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aiming for a band 7 or above. And again that is

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not to say we should mechanically

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explain all the data. We need to use different

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grammatical structures to

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analyze and show the data that we're

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highlighting from the graphic. Be accurate.

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Don't misreport the data. You will lose marks

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for that. And finally don't

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speculate on the reasons for the data. Just

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report and analyze it. Okay I hope

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that helps and I'll see you in the next video.

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Bye then.

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you