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IELTS WRITING TASK 1

What are they asking you to do in a report?

They’re asking you to describe the main points of the diagram. When I say “describe”,
I mean you will tell them what the diagram looks like? For example, I have a diagram
that shows fast food consumption, I simply need to describe that fast food consumption

has increased/ has grown/ has risen; I don’t need to say “fast food consumption has
risen because fast food is delicious and affordable” No, you don’t need to explain,
ok?. Explaining is what you are going to do essays in task 2 writing. Therefore, in task 1
writing, your job is to describe the main points of a diagram.

What is a diagram? You might be asking. That’s a good question. These are all
examples of diagrams.

Diagrams are pictures that convey information, usually numbers. This is a type of a
diagram called flow chart, and a flow chart shows us how to do something, a method to
do something.

Here, this is a type of a diagram called line chart or a line graph. It shows changes over
time/ over a period of time.