Ielts writing task

Task 1 writing
ielts
General information
Time: 20 minutes
+ 2 -3 minutes: understand the question + details
+ 15 minutes: write quickly
Answer all parts of questions
Paraphrase information
General – detail/ specific
+ 2 minutes: check-up: punctuation, content, coherence, spelling
Word limit: 150 words (170 words preferred)
H0W TO ORGANIZE TASK 1
Introduction: paraphrase from the question
Body: general trend – specific trend
Conclusion: no need
No comment + own idea
Unit 1
describing trends
Nouns and verbs
A rise Rose to
An increase increased to
Growth went up to
An upward trend climbed to
A boom boomed
(a dramatic rise)
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A decrease fell to
A decline declined to
A fall decreased to
A drop dropped to/ dipped to
A slump went down to
A dramatic fall fell dramatically
A reduction reduced to


Noun and verbs
A levelling out levelled out (at)
No change did not change
remained stable at
remained steady at
stayed constant at
maintained the same level
Unit 1 (cont)
Degree of change
Dramatic dramatically
Sharp sharply
Huge
Enormous enormously
Steep steeply
Substantial substantially
Considerable considerably
Significant significantly
Marked markedly
Moderate moderately
Slight slightly
Small
Minimal minimally
The speed of change
Rapid rapidly
Quick quickly
Swift swiftly
Sudden suddenly
Steady steadily
Gradual gradually
Slow slowly
Unit 2 (use comparison)
More males than females choose the TV.
Fewer males than females choose mobile phone.
The TV was more popular among males than females.
The most popular form of communication was the internet
As many females as males rank TV as the least important invention.
Nearly as many females as males rank TV as the least important invention.
Not as many females as males rank cars as the most important invention.
Slightly/ considerably/ substantially/ more women than men voted for the bicycles

Unit 2 (cont)
Red is the most popular car colour.
Professional is the second most prevalent employment category.
Spain is the least common holiday destination.
Twice as many women are employed in ABC company as …
Far more women are employed in ABC company than…
Helpful expressions
The diagram reveals that…
To some extent: trong 1 chung muc nao do
To a lesser extent: trong pham vi/ qui mo nho hon
A glance at … reflects..: nhin qua… cho thay rang
A similar situation was seen…mot truong hop tuong tu duoc nhin thay la