‫Hello, all my students across the globe.
‫I know I don't often do these videos where you can see me speaking, so hello, everybody.
‫This is the first video I've actually done live recording, but I just thought it was an easy and quick
‫way to answer a common question.
‫So this morning, when checking your responses, I saw a student message.
‫Julian, thanks for the message and asking about a question.
‫I've seen quite a bit about Tascon reports about tents in Tascon report.
‫And it's a common question where people are looking at my model and and say, well, shouldn't the task
‫one report just be in the past tense?
‫And actually, mostly we might use the past tense, but we can switch between tenses and using the correct
‫tense in the right part of your test.
‫One report is really important for your overall score.
‫So understanding when to use past present future tense is really important.
‫So we're going to take a look at just a simple task, one report question and we're going to discuss
‫when we can use the different tenses and how really can affect our writing.
‫Let's take a look at an elite writing task, one line graph, so before we start thinking about tenses,
‫as always, when we see some visual information, take a moment to have a read and get an understanding
‫of what it is we can say.
‫Let's start with the Y axis going up.
‫It says population percent.
‫Of course, you'll notice that I don't have the question here.
‫So I'm going to try and guess what the question may be.
‫So on the Y axis, I have population along the X axis.
‫I have a range of years and decades from 1960 to 2040.
‫The data shown on the key below the dates is zero to fourteen, twenty five to sixty four and sixty
‫five plus.
‫So I'm going to I'm going to assume, and rightly so, that this is world population percentages by
‫age group.
‫So really quickly, good for an overview.
‫Twenty five to sixty four always is the highest amount changes, only being between younger age group
‫and the older age group.
‫OK, so a quick look at the data we're working with and now let's consider different tent use for this
‫question type.
‫OK, so let's begin with nineteen eighty.
‫I'm reporting date years in the past.
‫Therefore it would make sense to use the past tense, which we do use for dates in the past.
‫In 1980, the majority of the world's population was still twenty five to sixty four, which stood at
‫just under 70 percent total.
‫And a nice structure there as well.
‫So I'm reporting a date in the past.
‫I will therefore use the past tense.
‫But what if I'm reporting or discussing predicted dates in the future where there's a couple of ways
‫we can do this?
‫And first, we have using the Future Tense.
‫By the year 2030, 65 and over will rise to 30 percent of total population, tripling its figure in
‫1980, that last part tripling its figure in 1980.
‫A great bit of comparison, really good, fantastic achievement score in task one.
‫But back to tennis will rise.
‫It is predicted the figure will rise.
‫So predicted because it's already been done.
‫The graph has been made, predicted it will rise.
‫So I'm using the Future Tense to discuss future dates.
‫Past tense for past dates.
‫Future Tense can be used for future dates, but we can also use the present simple tense for this.
‫From 2030 to 2040, the figure slowly declines by a further two point three percent.
‫And that's because in my voicing, in the tone of my writing, I'm reporting what I see now.
‫So I use the present tense when I'm saying I am seeing this now and I will report in this tense, let's
‫say in twenty twenty six or zero to fourteen decreases slightly.
‫So I'm just reporting what I can see now and I use the present.
‫Simple to do this, but in future days we can use present simple to.
‫So just within these examples we have three different tense types and the examiner will be really impressed
‫if you can use them in the correct place and accurately.
‫There's also one other tense and advanced tense which we can use within our task report, and that is
‫the past.
‫Perfect.
‫So I'm looking at these dates nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety and I can use the past perfect like
‫in this example here.
‫So from 1980 to 1990, the youngest age group had risen slightly by around one percent.
‫So reporting past time up until a later date or now, I can use the past.
‫Perfect.
‫Let's take a look at sixty five plus.
‫So nineteen eighty to twenty, twenty, sixty five.
‫Years and older had risen massively between the dates of nineteen eighty to twenty twenty had risen.
‫And there we have a really good example of past Purrfect, so we've got four Tensas there.
‫And I hope you found those examples useful.
‫OK, as you can see from the examples given it's really important that we're able to use a range of
‫tenses in our accounts writing task, one report remembering that the band descriptors are split into
‫four categories grammatical range and accuracy.
‫Being one of those categories, grammatical range and accuracy makes up.
‫Twenty five percent of your total band score and tenses are quite a big part of this.
‫To score the higher band scores that's going up into the seven point five, eight or higher, you will
‫be able to need to use a range of tenses within your task.
‫One report and as you can see, there are definitely ways that we can do this between past, present,
‫future, past, purrfect as well.
‫So have a go when you're doing your practice reports have a go at trying to use different tenses.
‫Sticking only to the past tense will mean you aren't able to score those higher band scores.
‫And of course, everybody's looking for at least six point five or seven or higher.
‫OK, so I hope you found this lesson useful.
‫Any questions?
‫Q&A section, as always.