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How To Describe A Bar Chart for IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
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Let's do this.
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Summarize and describe the following information. This is a chocolate bar chart and I'll describe
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it.
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The following bar chart represents consumption of chocolate over a five-minute period.
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This one is really tasty but it doesn't fill you up.
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This one is similar and it's quite cheap as well.
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And this one...
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Hi there. My name is Ben Worthington.
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In this video we're going to look at (in a very detailed fashion) we'll also look at
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how to write a high-scoring IELTS Academic Task 1 answer.
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We're going to look at it from a very different viewpoint.
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We're going to look at it from viewpoint of making the examiner happy, satisfying what's
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in the band requirements,
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and hopefully scoring high, passing the exam, and saying "Goodbye" to IELTS.
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So it's a slightly different video. I'm going into more detail.
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But first of all I'm going to tell you the sentences that I recommend you start to master
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so you can incorporate them into your writing.
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These sentences are the superlative. Master this. Master it, dominate it, learn the rules,
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write out a million sentences, get it checked.
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It's superlative. It's essential to dominate (not to learn it) to dominate that sentence
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structure. That grammatical point.
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The next one: Learn how to make comparisons.
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Learn how to say "Whereas, while," for those sections.
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The next part is learn how to group the data. That's not too bad, just looking for similarities.
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Not really a language skill but it's another story.
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Next one: Learn how to use the sentence respectively. So we can make a mini list.
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The next one: Learn how to describe the data in an advanced fashion.
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This means like... Let's see... I don't know...
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Pollution increased ten-fold...
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"Pollution practically doubled over the five-year period."
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"Practically doubled"
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That's quite an emphatic way of saying it. Or it's quite a descriptive way.
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Instead of just going "Pollution jumped from 20 to 40."
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I say "practically doubled" shows the examiner that I am a master of IELTS Academic Task
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1.
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Alright. Let's carry on.
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So the other sentences that we have to know is also how to make a mini list as well.
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I'm not a big fan of making lists in this part of the exam.
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But making a list help you describe the data and make it go a little smoother.
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So in the video, we're going to look at all of those points in much more detail.
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Trust me. Do the tutorial, follow it all the way through the end, even (if you want) make
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a description yourself with the bar chart we're going to look at.
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Like I said, a million and one times before. You cannot learn to ride a bike in a classroom.
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Take action, write it down, grab a pen, start studying, and pass IELTS.
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Simple as...
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Let's go.
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Have a look at this graph and remember that the process...
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We've already got two sentences accounted for.
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We've got to find eight sentences more or less, in which we're going to use those structures
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that we talked about a few minutes ago.
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Now, first of all, we're going to try and choose a way to organize the data.
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The most logical thing would be to do a whole paragraph about this,
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a whole paragraph about this,
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and a whole paragraph about this group.
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That's okay, it's chronologically organized and there is at least some organization there.
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However, we're going to miss an opportunity to make some comparisons.
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So what I would do is make a small compromise and maybe just choose these two groups to
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talk about the first.
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We've got a good comparison there and then use that all the way (not all the way through)
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but at least for the first going through probably the second one.
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So let's just have a quick look.
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I did the first sentence which is just a description. It's not the story.
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So there's a plain description of what there is there.
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And this one, you can see different life periods and at the title, I used up three distinct
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age groups.
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Just to avoid using the same words and the same vocabulary as in the title.
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We can't get any points if we do that.
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Now then, immediately I go for clarity and starting with the subject.
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"Dairy for the 0-24 age group was the highest source of calories,"
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And as I said before, we've got the superlative there and we've got the subject, they've all
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checked.
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And "dairy" straight in there, two feet straight in, bar.
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Superlative: "the other categories each represent about 20% each."
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Now you can see before that I wanted to group my data. So this is a perfect group.
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It's roughly similar and I could just bunch it together.
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'Cause what happens, the usual tendency is to group that data...
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Well, not to group that data but to list it (which is horrible) and go through
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"meat represented 20%"
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"pulses represented 18%"
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'vegetables represented 20%"
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That's just boring.
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The other part... And then I am going through it chronologically but I'm not going through
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it in a listed fashion.
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Once again, I followed... Actually, no.
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I've started with "dairy" again but I've used the fancy sentence saying
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"it fell to around a quarter" since it's roughly the case there
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"and meat became the main source of calories,"
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Another way to show I can... It's sort of superlative but it's showing you the main,
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that's the most popular one.
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So I'm going for the key points in the data here.
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And here, I do make a list afterwards but just because I want to use the respectively
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sentence.
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The famous respectively sentences.
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And once again, I start with "pulse"... I don't start with "pulses" but I start with
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the most popular.
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Start with the largest.
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And this is the way it's kind of organized.
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So although I've gone like this, I haven't done the list from here to here, I've always
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started with the most significant.
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And also, you'll see there's the comparison there (which I managed to squeeze in).
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And let's see...
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And also, there's another fancy sentence here.
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"increased six fold"
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And once again, you can see I'm starting with this subject. I'll start in this subject for
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object.
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Bang, bang, bang. And it's clear. It's crystal clear.
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And then... Where is it now?...
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Finishing off. And here, I just added this sentence 'cause when I did the word count
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afterwards, it was 130 words.
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So I added this:
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"The 50+ group shows the most marked preference out of all the groups and also confirms the
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gradual decline in vegetable consumption as males become older."
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So what I'm saying is I'm assuring the examiner that I have realized that the "Over 50" group
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is the extreme. It's the largest out of all of them.
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And it also confirms this general mini-trend within the data of vegetables slowly decreasing.
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And then now I have the overall sentence. The famous one.
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"Overall it is clear that each age group has a clear favourite..."
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Perhaps now if I'm just looking at it again, I would delete that because it's clear twice
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(which isn't good).
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As a market, I've already used... I would say
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"Overall it is obvious..." maybe... Anyway I could use that another time.
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"varies depending on age,"
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And I haven't... What usually happens, I haven't said "0-24 meat, 25-49 dairy."
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I haven't repeated what I've already said here. I've just said it's a clear favorite.
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And I've also said "vegetables are consistently amongst the least popular regardless of age."
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And that's also true. Not only are they declining but they are usually amongst (not the least
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but amongst) the least popular here.
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They're amongst the bottom two here. They're in the bottom two. And here is the lowest.
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So just mini data points that you can include.
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Let's just see... So yeah.
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I described it in an advanced fashion. Talking of "six fold" I used the "respectively." I
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did it in a normal fashion as well.
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Which is making a little list here "and slightly less than dairy (15%)."
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I've done the exceptions in the pattern. "Vegetables" there is the exception.
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And there's also a mini pattern.
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But the main pattern was they have a clear favorite.
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Okay, grouping the data points here, we did that straight away.
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And superlative all the way through.
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Highest, sure I've got the lowest as well, somewhere.
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Okay, consistent, "the least" similar.
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So yeah, all the way through, 156 words.
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But the main point here, main lesson is selecting the information.