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ADVICE

· Of course, grammar helps, but you should also focus on using various sentence
structures! Don’t use the same sentence structures over and over.
· Read as much as possible, you will understand how to be a more effective writer by

observing other writers.
· Write as much as you can.
· You have to choose your information carefully (which figures do you want to get
without talking about every little change?)

· Practicing going from verbs, adverbs to nouns, adjectives as well as practice changing
your noun forms. For example, I want to talk about the production of films, and coffee
from Viet Nam. We want to get rid of the preposition so that the noun will become the
adjective. So we have the production of films will become film production (film in

this case is an adjective so it is a singular form), and likewise, coffee from Viet Nam
will become Vietnamese coffee; or fell gradually will become there was a gradual fall.
You need to switch between nouns and adjectives, verbs and adverbs, and you need to
say “the development of the new products” will become “new product development”,

“number of theme park visitors” will become “theme park visitor numbers”; “sugar
import” will become “imported sugar”; “quality of food in super market” will become
“super market food quality”; “investment in research” will become “research
investment”; “the level of unemployment” will become “the unemployment level”

· One more thing is that you need to do some simple comparison words. You’ll need to
be able to have flexibility to use comparison structures.

Note: Even a graph that shows you something going from the past, through the present,

in the future, I would still say that you don’t need to use present perfect in your writing.
I would say you’d better just need to focus on using past tense and future tense. If you
want to get a higher vocabulary and grammar score when you are dealing with the future
tense, you can start talking about future perfect. It’s a lot easier to use and a lot more

natural sounding.

Don’t talk about many trends, just two trends for three points.