‫This lesson is all about the grammar that you will need for elite writing task one.
‫I'll be showing you some really useful sentence structures that you can practice with and use on the
‫day of your test.
‫I really suggest noting down a lot of the language and sentence types that I show you in this lesson
‫and practice using them as much as you can.
‫Now for a quick word on grammar.
‫As we know from looking at the band descriptors, grammatical range and accuracy makes up 25 percent
‫of your overall alts writing task one mark.
‫However, grammar takes a long time to really improve accuracy and fluency.
‫I can show you lots of tips during this video, but you're going to need to do a lot of other things
‫to practice and improve your grammar.
‫Here are three top tips that you can do alongside this course to help improve your overall grammar levels,
‫but I will say again, it does take a really long time to build your accuracy and levels of fluency.
‫So it's better to concentrate on things like structure and organization for the adults writing test,
‫because that's something that we can quickly understand and develop our abilities in.
‫It's time that we moved on to our first set of sentence structures, and it's all about making comparisons.
‫Here is a pie chart that I'll be using to describe and show you examples of the grammar that I would
‫use to describe it.
‫He is sentence structure one.
‫Let's take a look at some examples.
‫We can clearly see that taxes were more popular than walking by six percent.
‫Riding the bus was less popular than driving a car, which was the highest voted mode of transport.
‫He is the second structure.
‫More people preferred riding a bicycle than taking the bus.
‫And his example to.
‫We can see that less people enjoyed riding trains than driving cars.
‫He is a bar chart, I would like you to pause the video and using the sentence structures I've shown
‫you, try and create some sentences to report and make comparisons for the video now and try your best.
‫OK, now you've tried that.
‫Here are my examples.
‫So for number one, I said in both girls and boys, bike riding was more popular than skateboarding
‫or rollerblading.
‫And for the second sentence structure, more boys preferred playing computer games than girls of the
‫same age.
‫Now, there's lots of different information you could describe.
‫So well done for trying that out.
‫Now, let's move on to our next section in this lesson.
‫Apart from making comparisons, you will also need to describe trends, especially when it comes to
‫charts and graphs.
‫Here's a sentence structure that is super useful for you when describing trends.
‫The structure here is there was plus an adjective and a noun then and now, of course, for the adjective
‫and noun, you can use a number of synonyms.
‫But I'll show you a few examples.
‫Now, from 2002 to 2004, there was a significant rise in enrolments to Causby.
‫Significant could be replaced with words such as steep or rapid and rise could easily be replaced with
‫the synonym increase, let's say our second example for describing trends.
‫Here I will use the same sentence structure to describe a decrease in the trend.
‫There was a sharp drop in student numbers for Causby between 2002 and 2003.
‫Again, these are only two examples using the sentence structure of trends that are easily identifiable
‫on the example bar chart.
‫I definitely advise you to write down the sentence structures with a few examples of euro, as in the
‫test, they will be super useful.
‫Let's move on to the next section.
‫Now we'll take a look at describing increases and decreases, and this is something that you will almost
‫definitely have to do when reporting on Alt's writing task one.
‫The structure I'm going to show you is very simple, and that is a noun phrase followed by a verb and
‫then an adverb.
‫If you're not sure what a noun phrase is, the easiest way to explain it is a few words put together
‫to form a name.
‫The example here playing music, we aren't talking about doing this thing.
‫We're naming it as an activity which makes it into a noun.
‫Phrase is my example.
‫From 2006 to 2010, playing music climbed steadily to 26 percent of owners using this feature.
‫Of course, for the verb, an adverb, there are many different synonyms that you could use and you
‫may remember some from our last lesson on vocabulary.
‫Let's see another example with some different synonyms used.
‫Playing games jumped sharply from 2006 to 2008, however, over the following two years, its overall
‫use declined by one percent.
‫This sentence structure of noun, phrase, verb, an adverb is really useful and I'd like you to try
‫and use it to describe this.
‫There may not be one exact correct answer for this, as you could use a number of different noun phrases,
‫verbs or adverbs, try and describe it.
‫And if you can also say what they say happened between pause the video now and write your example sentence.
‫OK, as I said, there is not one definitive answer for this, but I'm going to show you a few examples
‫that I have made.
‫Shopping online increased significantly between 2006 and 2016.
‫Did you manage to write something similar to this?
‫Here is my second example.
‫Online shopping grew considerably over 10 years from 2006 to 2006 state.
‫There is a lot of lessons that we could do about grammar, and it could be in itself a huge cause,
‫but as I said, I wanted to give you ideas and sentence structures that you could use right away, note
‫them down and practice using them as much as you can, because I'm sure you'll be able to use them in
‫the writing test.
‫See you in the next lesson.