Essential vocabulary for this lesson

Essential vocabulary for this lesson

To complete this lesson, you will need to know the following vocabulary. When you are sure you know all the words, continue to the next page. SENIOR MATURE RESENTMENT BALANCED FIRST HAND CONCESSION OPPOSING INEVITABLE IRRELEVANT VALID REJECT ACKNOWLEDGE BEAR IN MIND...
Aims of this lesson

Aims of this lesson

Narration: So far in this course, we have covered the 4 different types of Task 2 essay you might find, and in Unit 2, we looked at analysing the question. In this lesson, we will look at how to get ideas and plan your answer. By the end of this lesson, we will have...
Bar charts and trends

Bar charts and trends

The language and principles of describing line graphs can also be applied to bar charts. Click the link below to test your skills with describing trends relating to bar charts.
Video: Rephrasing using adverbs

Video: Rephrasing using adverbs

Narration: Now let’s look at the same graph using adverbs. One way of constructing the sentence is to use this pattern: a subject, a trend verb, an adverb of degree and a time scale. We already know that the subject is sales. We can also see that the trend...
Video: Rephrasing using adverbs

Video: The language of trends #2

Narration: Just describing the direction of the trend is not enough to get a good result in your IELTS test. You will also need to describe the speed and amount of change in the trend. In each of these illustrations, you can see that there was a downward trend....