‫Welcome back in this lesson will be learning all about the vocabulary that you must use in writing Task
‫one.
‫I believe that even if your level of English is very advanced, there's still a lot of specific vocabulary
‫that you need to learn and practice using.
‫Here are your lesson notes.
‫By the end of this video, you will know some of the essential Al's writing task, one vocabulary.
‫You'll also be able to use some advanced language to describe a bar chart, map or process, if at any
‫point during this lesson you have some questions, please go to the Q and A section and I'll try and
‫get back to you as quickly as I can.
‫Let's go back to the band descriptors to understand why vocabulary is so important for your final band
‫score.
‫You may remember the banned descriptors are split into four sections, that task achievement, coherence
‫and cohesion, lexical resource and grammatical range and accuracy.
‫The key point to remember is these four criteria are marked equally at 25 percent each.
‫So your use of vocabulary or lexical resource makes up one quarter or 25 percent of your final score.
‫A band sex in lexical resource means that you haven't used too much advanced vocabulary, you may have
‫used it inaccurately with some mistakes, or you could have repeated yourself too often.
‫To achieve a band seven electical resource, you must use a range of advanced vocabulary with little
‫repetition and fewer mistakes.
‫For a top band eight or Band nine score, you must use sophisticated language with very little repetition
‫and there also needs to be few or actually zero mistakes in your writing and vocabulary.
‫Here are some quick tips to follow to score highly in lexical resource.
‫My first top tip is to try and not to repeat your language too often.
‫Also, don't copy the language from the question you synonyms to paraphrase.
‫Next, I would suggest trying to use some less common vocabulary and finally make sure you're using
‫your vocabulary accurately and your spelling it correctly.
‫Also, I would suggest writing down and taking note of any vocabulary in this lesson that you think
‫you will find useful.
‫Let's get on with the lesson.
‫To increase your range of vocabulary, it's really important that you have a good understanding of synonyms
‫now, synonyms are words that have a very similar or the exact same meaning.
‫And throughout this lesson, are we teaching you lots of adults writing specific vocabulary and synonyms?
‫Here is a quick example of three synonyms for the word profit.
‫By having a larger range of vocabulary, you will find it easier to not repeat yourself.
‫Here is the essential vocabulary for your introduction paragraph.
‫Note them down and practice using them in a variety of ways.
‫You could also post them to the Q&A section.
‫Here are four top openers that you could use to begin your writing that given the preceding to supply
‫the show following this, we need to give the type of visual information that we are provided with,
‫then add one of these verbs and this is your opening sentence.
‫Now, let's take a look at a few examples using this table.
‫This applied bar chart describes.
‫The given line graphs compare.
‫Have a go at writing your own opening introduction.
‫Now we'll move on to vocabulary all about graphs and charts.
‫Here are five common trends that you will see with graphs and charts, and we have both gradual and
‫rapid changes as well.
‫We also have a plateau or we could say that it is stabilized.
‫Here are your synonyms for increase and decrease.
‫I've highlighted the vocabulary rocketed and plunged in blue because you would only use these two words
‫to describe a big quick change.
‫We use adverbs to show how quickly the change happened for gradual, you could use these adverbs.
‫Let's see a few examples.
‫The line graph slightly increased, or you could also say the graph moderately grew.
‫Both these sentences mean there was a small increase.
‫Here are some examples to describe a small decrease, the graph slowly decreased.
‫The graph moderately fell.
‫Holds the video and write your own versions describing gradual changes in the line graph.
‫Let's move on to rapid big changes.
‫Here are your adverbs and here are some example sentences.
‫The line graph sharply climbed and here's an example with rocketed, which does not need an adverb.
‫The graph rocketed.
‫Let's see examples for a very large decrease.
‫You could write the line graph sharply declined, or you could also say the graph plunged.
‫We've covered quite a few different ways in which you can use synonyms to discuss trends in graphs and
‫charts before moving on, I suggest writing notes about the information that you can see before you
‫now.
‫Do that and then move on to the next section of this lesson.
‫Now we'll move on to the essential vocabulary that you need to describe, Matt.
‫Some of the most important vocabulary that you need when describing maps is being able to talk about
‫location.
‫If you look to the top middle of the screen, you can see an eight point compass.
‫I'll show you how we can describe some location using the compass.
‫He is a wind turbine which is used to produce electricity, and here is the car park.
‫I would describe the car park as being south east of the wind turbine, or I could say the wind turbine
‫is located to the north west of the car park.
‫Here are some synonyms that you could use instead of located, you could use situated or found.
‫For example, the secret garden is situated to the east of the vegetable patch.
‫Or the play area is found to the north of the primary building.
‫Use the example sentences and the eight point compass to practice, describing the location of features
‫on this map.
‫As well as location, we also need to be able to describe how maps have changed.
‫So let us look at some vocabulary for that.
‫When you are presented with two maps from the same location, but different times, you must be able
‫to report what has been removed and what has been developed.
‫If something has been built, you could use these synonyms to describe that developed, added, built,
‫constructed or transformed.
‫For example, from this map, you could say that the shops were developed into more residential housing.
‫If a building or place has been reused instead of completely destroyed and rebuilt, you can use developed
‫or transformed.
‫If this place is completely new, you would say it was added, built or constructed.
‫If something disappears, we can use replaced, removed, are demolished, for example, the farmland
‫was demolished.
‫That's all for the essential vocabulary about maps.
‫We're going to move on to learn what language you must know, to report processes and diagrams.
‫When reporting a process, we must describe each stage from beginning to finish, so it's very important
‫that we use time connectives to order our language and report logically.
‫Here are some examples of what time connectives you can use.
‫This table gives you some ideas on language you can use to time, order your report, you will only
‫need to use one of the phrases from the first and final stages.
‫But as there may be a few stages in the whole process, you might need to use a lot of the phrases in
‫the middle stage column.
‫Here are some examples using the time connectives to describe the lifecycle of a frog in the beginning.
‫Eggs are laid by an adult frog in the river.
‫After that, an embryo develops inside the egg.
‫Finally, the tadpole frog loses its tail and becomes an adult frog.
‫That's all for our lesson on essential vocabulary for adults writing task one, it's really important
‫that you try and practice using a range of vocabulary.
‫You've got any questions, use the Q&A feature or drop me a message.
‫So you say.