‫Hello, everyone, and welcome back to your next lesson, all about alt writing task one.
‫Today we will learn how to organize and structure your writing into four simple parts here.
‫Your lesson note.
‫Firstly, you'll need to know how to write an organized Eilts task.
‫One report in four steps and you'll also understand what to write in each of the four steps.
‫But before moving on, I'd like to review some key information from the last few lessons to recap.
‫There are six pieces of visual information or different questions that you might see on ALTS writing
‫task, one that could be different kind of chart maps or processes which are actually like diagrams.
‫There is a suggested word count of a hundred and fifty plus words any less and your score will receive
‫a penalty, though you don't get more marks for writing more than one hundred and fifty words.
‫You have a recommended time limit of twenty minutes to complete this task.
‫And the task is to report the key features in the visual information that is presented to you.
‫That rounds up just a few important things we know about writing Task one.
‫And before we move on to our four steps, it might be worth asking why do I need to structure my report?
‫And to answer that will go back to the band descriptors in the band seven task achievement.
‫One descriptor it state presents a clear overview of main trends, differences or stages, and an overview
‫is included in the force.
‫That structure that I will teach you in this lesson and the band seven Coherence and Cohesion Descriptor
‫stays.
‫The student logically organizes information and ideas.
‫There is a clear progression throughout.
‫By using the four step structure, you can cross off these two points on the banned descriptors, so
‫it's very important to use it.
‫OK, so here is the force, that sequence, we begin with an introduction and then move to the overview,
‫which I mentioned is in the pan descriptors.
‫In previous lessons, I mentioned splitting the visual information into two groups, hey, you can see
‫we have two detailed paragraphs and this is where you can talk about the two groups of data from the
‫question.
‫I would highly suggest posing the video at this point in the lesson and writing the four steps down.
‫Now I'm going to go into each of the steps and explain in a lot more detail what you need to write and
‫how you can do it.
‫So let's move on to the introduction step.
‫Here is a task, one question, the bar chart shows the number of students attending three different
‫courses from 2001 to 2004 summarized the information by selecting and reporting the main features and
‫make comparisons where relevant on the vertical y axis.
‫We have students in millions and on the bottom x axis we have the four different yet to the right of
‫the bar graph.
‫There is a key which gives us the three different courses.
‫To write our introduction, we will need to paraphrase the question, which simply means to write it
‫again, but to use our own words.
‫However, that does not mean that we have to change every single word.
‫Let me show you my example of how I paraphrased the question.
‫The bar chart illustrates the total number of students enrolled into three different courses between
‫2001 to 2004.
‫As you can see, I haven't made huge changes to the question, and I've used my understanding of synonyms,
‫words that have the same meaning to reword and paraphrase the question instead of the bar chart shows
‫I've used.
‫The bar chart illustrates the number of students has been changed to the total number of students.
‫And I've used this synonym for attending which is enrolled.
‫My final change was to swap from to between, which is a top tip and something that you can use often.
‫I do recommend that your introduction is no longer than two sentences, but don't go into too much detail
‫and remember, to simply paraphrase the question and use synonyms to change the language.
‫Let me show you a few more examples that you could use, and it might be worth noting these down so
‫you can practice using the.
‫The graph chart table or map illustrates gives information, depicts, shows, represent or compares
‫and shows you'll notice the last phrase is in red.
‫And that's because if there's more than two charts, you can swap between compares and shows in your
‫paraphrased introduction, you may have noticed that I haven't mentioned process diagrams.
‫And there's a key phrase I want to teach you in this lesson.
‫The diagrams illustrate the way in which the product is produced.
‫The product could be a wide variety of things, but whatever the process diagram shows to produce,
‫you can put that there.
‫Now, the key phrase here is the way in which it's a very versatile phrase and can be used when describing
‫many different kinds of process diagrams.
‫So have a go at using it to.
‫Before we move on to our overview, I have an introduction challenge using either a notepad and pen
‫or the Q&A section.
‫I want you to write your own introduction for the question on this slide.
‫Don't copy my example too closely.
‫In the Q&A section.
‫You could get feedback from other students and I can read it, too.
‫So that might be a good place to post your answer.
‫Moving on to our next step, which is the overview, the first thing that we need to understand about
‫the overview is that to score a band six, you must include one.
‫The Band six Task Achievement Descriptor State presents an overview with information appropriately selected
‫and to score a band seven in task achievement.
‫The Descriptor states.
‫This presents a clear overview of main trends, differences or stages.
‫So as we can see, it's very important that we include an overview in our report.
‫But what exactly is an overview?
‫Let's take a look at that now.
‫Firstly, your overview should not contain a lot of specific figures and detail.
‫However, the overview should report the main trends or if you like, the big picture of the visual
‫information given to you, instead of saying car sales rose by 20 percent, you would simply say car
‫sales increased.
‫Give the big picture without figures.
‫As I previously said, if you want to score above Aband six and TASC achievement, your report must
‫include an overview.
‫And to score one, seven or higher, you must identify the main trends, differences or stages.
‫Let's see some examples now.
‫The line graph shows the percentage of recycling rates in three countries, and it's recorded across
‫six years.
‫Can you identify three general main trends in this graph?
‫And by that, I don't mean specific figures, just the overall picture.
‫What could you briefly say about each country?
‫And are there any similarities that you could quickly discuss?
‫Pause the video now and in note form, so not full sentences.
‫Try and identify three general trends in the line graph show and then I'll show you my ideas.
‫In the last lesson you may remember, I showed you some planning notes, well, here they are and it
‫also gives me the information for my overview, looking at my notes.
‫Can you work out what I might write in my overview?
‫The first thing to note is that I've grouped the UK and Germany together because they're recycling rates
‫follow a very similar trend.
‫France, however, has a completely different set of data.
‫So I would put that in group two and write about it in my second detailed paragraph.
‫The main trends I identified for my overview are that the UK and Germany have a steady, consistent
‫increase, whereas France has a slow downturn with a final rise.
‫Let's see how that would look in a fully explained overview.
‫Overall, the recycling rate of the UK and Germany rose steadily and consistently over the six years.
‫However, the percentage of waste recycled in France experienced a downward trend.
‫A few key points to mention would be I've highlighted overall, as I believe that is a key piece of
‫vocabulary that you should start your overviews with.
‫And do remember the comma.
‫You can see that I haven't mentioned any specific figures or percentage increases in my overview and
‫have just stuck to the main facts or the bigger picture.
‫For now, don't worry too much about specific vocabulary that will come in the next lesson.
‫Here is a quick review of the four step report structure.
‫We've completed our introduction and we've just looked at how to make an overview.
‫Now it's time to take a look at what is in a detailed paragraph and how we can write one.
‫I'd quickly like to return to the task one question which will remain the same every time, summarize
‫the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
‫The majority of our answers to this question will be in our two detailed paragraphs, and that's where
‫we'll be reporting the main trends, differences and similarities.
‫So they are very important.
‫But what do we need to include?
‫In the detailed paragraph, you have the report, the key features of the data shown to you, and this
‫must be done accurately or you risk losing marks.
‫Worth while in the body paragraph to give specific figures and to reference the visual information show,
‫you also need to logically organize your writing.
‫And that's where splitting the data into two groups is very useful.
‫Now we'll look at three examples of body paragraphs, starting with charts and graphs, these two pie
‫charts show the contribution to the economy of Turkey split into eight different sectors.
‫I've decided to split into two groups by the sectors that increased and the sectors that decreased or
‫stayed the same.
‫This means I can write a paragraph for each of my two groups.
‫Here is my first detailed paragraph where our report on Group one.
‫Please do pause the video and read through this detailed paragraph, you may notice that I'm going to
‫describe all eight sectors, but it's worth remembering that often you don't have to describe every
‫single piece of data.
‫Here is example, too, and we're going to be looking at the body or detailed paragraph for this map
‫here, it might be good practice for you to look at this map and ask yourself the four key questions
‫from the last letter I can see the map is comparing the key features of a town called Stopford in the
‫year 1930 and 2010.
‫Let's take a look at the detailed paragraph I wrote for this piece of visual information.
‫I have split this map into two groups east and west of the main central road.
‫Let's see my answer for the first detailed paragraph or any development made east of the main road.
‫You may notice there is one part of the town east of the main central road that I haven't mentioned
‫in my detailed paragraph, and it actually remained unchanged.
‫Can you see what I haven't discussed?
‫You can post your answers in the Q and A section.
‫Now onto our final example, which is all about detailed paragraphs for processes, the diagram here
‫shows us the process of creating or manufacturing bricks, which are often used in construction.
‫Now, let's see how I grouped my data and also take a deeper look at my detailed paragraph.
‫For the process of brick manufacturing, I simply spit the diagram into the first three steps and the
‫second group was the four last steps, pulls the video and read through this detailed paragraph.
‫You can see I've gone into quite some detail to explain each of the stages.
‫And that's also a key word.
‫Remember, for processes, we simply describe each of the stages in the diagram.
‫That brings us to the end of this lesson, all about structuring and organizing our answer.
‫I think you'll agree there was a lot of information and it was really packed.
‫Please review your lesson, know it.
‫And if you have any questions, use the Q&A feature.
‫Also, I would recommend maybe going through parts of this lesson again and remember to take notes all
‫the best and I'll see you in the next lesson.