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2 Alternative treatment "EFORE DOING THIS EXERCISE 5 4ELL STUDENTS

TELL STUDENTS TO LOOK AT THE 7RITING TASK INSTRUCTIONS – THEY WILL ACHIEVE A HIGHER BAND SCORE IF THEIR
AGAIN AND POINT OUT THAT THEY SHOULD REPORT THE MAIN ANSWER IS CLEARLY AND LOGICALLY ORGANISED 4HIS
FEATURES !SK STUDENTS TO WORK IN PAIRS AND DECIDE INCLUDES WRITING PARAGRAPHS EACH WITH A CLEAR
WHAT THE MAIN FEATURES ARE 4HEY SHOULD THEN LOOK AT FOCUS
SENTENCES n AND SAY WHICH ONES THEY HAVE ALREADY – IT IS ESSENTIAL TO INCLUDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE
IDENTIFIED AS MAIN FEATURES INFORMATION AT SOME STAGE IN THEIR SUMMARY
s 4HIS EXERCISE ASKS STUDENTS TO DISTINGUISH MAIN OTHERWISE THEY WILL LOSE MARKS 4HIS IS COVERED IN
FEATURES FROM MINOR THOUGH TRUE DETAILS MORE DETAIL IN 5NIT
s 4ELL STUDENTS THAT THEY SHOULD AIM TO SUMMARISE – THEIR BAND SCORE ALSO DEPENDS ON THE CHOICE AND
THE INFORMATION GIVEN TO THEM NOT PROVIDE APPROPRIATENESS OF THEIR VOCABULARY WITH LESS
INTERPRETATIONS REASONS FOR THE INFORMATION OR COMMON WORDS USED APPROPRIATELY GETTING THEM A
INTRODUCE ANY INFORMATION WHICH IS NOT PRESENTED HIGHER MARK
IN THE TASK
Answers
Answers 1 0ARAGRAPH LOOKS AT THE OVERALL RISE AND THE GAP
BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES WHILE PARAGRAPH
IS A CLOSE ANALYSIS OF THE YEARLY DATA
3 4ELL STUDENTS THAT IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE A HIGH BAND 2 )T IS THE OVERVIEW

SCORE THEY WILL HAVE TO SUMMARISE THE MAIN FEATURES 3 a less marked b more significant
BUT ALSO SUPPORT THESE WITH DETAILED STATISTICAL 4 widen
INFORMATION FROM THE GRAPHS OR CHART !SK THEM TO 5 A more detailed look at the graph reveals x
LOOK AT HOW EACH OF THE SENTENCES DESCRIBING MAIN 6 flattened out
FEATURES IS ACCOMPANIED BY SENTENCES CONTAINING 7 just over
SUPPORTING DETAILS 8 slight
Answers Extension ideas
'RADUATE NUMBERS ROSE DURING THE YEARS AND 1 Ask students to copy the words and phrases focused
REACHED THEIR HIGHEST LEVELS IN BUT THERE on in this exercise into their notebooks and suggest
WERE ALWAYS MORE FEMALE THAN MALE GRADUATES they revise them and try to incorporate some of them
paragraph 2 in their own Part 1 answers when the time comes.
4HUS THE GAP BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF MALE AND 2 Ask students to read the sample answer again and
FEMALE GRADUATES HAD WIDENED paragraph 2 highlight words and phrases they think would be
! MORE DETAILED LOOK AT THE GRAPH REVEALS THAT THE useful when doing other Part 1 Writing tasks. They
OVERALL GROWTH IN NUMBERS WAS NOT ALWAYS STEADY should also copy these into their notebooks.
paragraph 3
#LEARLY THERE WERE SIMILAR TRENDS FOR MALE AND 6 Answers
FEMALE GRADUATES OVER THIS PERIOD BUT THE NUMBER 'RADUATE NUMBERS ROSE DURING THE YEARS AND
OF WOMEN GRADUATING INCREASED AT A HIGHER RATE REACHED THEIR highest LEVELS IN x
THAN THE NUMBER OF MEN paragraph 4 !FTER HOWEVER GRADUATE NUMBERS SAW THEIR
strongest GROWTH RATE x
4 4ELL STUDENTS THAT THERE IS NOT one CORRECT WAY TO

ORGANISE THEIR ANSWER BUT DIVIDING THE GRAPH BEFORE Extension idea Go through the Language reference
THEY START IS ONE WAY OF WORKING OUT HOW TO DO IT 4HIS on page 119 with students and ask them to supply extra
MAY NOT BE APPLICABLE TO ALL 0ART TASKS examples for each point alongside the examples in the
reference.
Suggested answer

4HE LINES SHOULD CUT THE HORIZONTAL AXIS AT AND 7 4ELL STUDENTS TO REFER BACK TO THE ,ANGUAGE REFERENCE
WHEN IN DOUBT 4ELL THEM THAT THIS AREA OF GRAMMAR IS
4HE DATA HAS BEEN GROUPED ACCORDING TO THE
YEARS ESSENTIAL FOR )%,43 CANDIDATES TO MASTER AS THEY WILL
ALMOST CERTAINLY NEED IT TO DESCRIBE ANY TYPE OF CHART
OR GRAPH
Extension idea Ask students to compare where they
have drawn lines with each other and with the suggested Answers
answer.
1 STEADIEST 2 MOST POPULAR 3 LOWEST 4 4HE MOST
5 GREATEST 6 MOST IMPORTANT AREA 7 ONE
8 FAVOURITE

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