17. The Grammar
Adjectives describe a noun.
A funny man
A beautiful woman
Adverbs describe a verb.
He ran quickly
She wrote quietly.
In IELTS, it is good to use adjectives and adverbs to show
that you can use good grammar.
18. The Grammar
Adjective + Noun
a quick rise
a steady fall
a slow increase
a significant decrease
Verb + adverb
Rose quickly
Fell steadily
Increased slowly
Decreased significantly
19. In IELTS, it is good to use adjectives and adverbs to show
that you can use good grammar.
The number of people rose. Then
the number of people fell. After,
the number increased.
These are all verbs
20. In IELTS, it is good to use adjectives and adverbs to show
that you can use good grammar.
Firstly, the number of people rose
sharply. Then there was a steady fall.
After, the number increased slowly.
Now we have some adj +
nouns and verbs +
adverbs, to show good
grammar.
21. Look at the lines again. Can you make an adjective
and noun?
26. The Introduction Paragraph
Be very specific about what you can see. How many
years does the graph show? What is the information
about? Change the words from the question
(paraphrase), so you don’t lose points for repetition.
For example if the question says:
This chart shows > change to > The graph
illustrates/The graph gives information about
The amount of people who went shopping > change
to> The number of customers who… etc
27. What people drink in Hue
Milk tea
Juice
2005 2010 2015 Present
Overall, milk tea was more popular than juice from 2005 to
present. Throughout the period, the trend for milk tea
rocketed upwards, whereas juice fell.
28. Overall
• Remember, to get overall trends you can look at the first and
last part of the line graph and say that the overall trend is up or
down.
30. Ways to compare- (1) – Linking Words
Vocabulary for things
that are different:
In contrast
Whereas
However
But
Vocabulary for things
that are the same
Both
Similarly
In the same way
31. Ways to compare- (2) – The
information
Group information together.
Which lines are similar and which ones are
different?
If you see 2 lines which have a similar idea, put
them in the same paragraph and compare them.
Use words like ‘more than’, ‘the biggest’, ‘the
most dramatic increase’. These words compare
one line to all the others.
32. Give an Overview
• The main trends (try not to write specific data)
• Words you might want to use: Overall, ‘most/least’
• Look at the start and end to get an overall idea of the trend. If
it is lower at the start and higher at the end, the overall trend
is upwards.
Overall, the consumption of fish and chips declined over the
period, whereas the amount of pizza and hamburgers that were
eaten dramatically increased.
33. What can we group together?
In 1975, the most popular fast food with Australian teenagers was
fish and chips, eaten 100 times a year. This was far higher than pizza
and hamburgers, which were consumed approximately 5 times a
year. However, apart from a brief rise again from 1980 to 1985, the
consumption of fish and chips gradually declined over the 25 years
to finish at just under 40.
34. In contrast to this, teenagers ate the other two fast foods at much higher
levels with a similar trend. Pizza consumption increased gradually until it
overtook the consumption of fish and chips in 1990. It then levelled off from
1995 to 2000. The biggest rise was seen in hamburgers as the times they were
eaten increased sharply throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s, exceeding that of
fish and chips in 1985. It finished at a similar level that fish and chips began
with consumption around 100 times per year.
