‫Hello, everyone, and here is an update of some muddled writing lessons, starting with Tascon maps.
‫So a lot of you have asked, David, can you please upload more modelled writing lessons?
‫And here we are.
‫So I'm doing a few updates of these models.
‫Right.
‫I think it is really useful.
‫You can watch these videos more than once and just see me structure from beginning to end.
‫A full answer.
‫Now, we haven't seen a full model, right, for maps yet.
‫And although maps really are slightly less common, especially in comparison to bar charts and line
‫charts, these types of things, there's still a small chance you could see them at a reasonably small
‫chance.
‫They're not that uncommon, I should say.
‫So I'm going to show you a full report for a maps question.
‫So let's take a look at this question.
‫The maps show the development of an area in some land over a time span of 20 years.
‫Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
‫OK, so let's take a look at the topic sentence.
‫That first sentence.
‫The maps show.
‫So the first thing I should say is that when it comes to a map question for adults writing task one,
‫they will almost always I don't think I've seen one without they'll be more than one map, which will
‫help you compare.
‫Sometimes you might say I see three or even four, and often these are four different times of the same
‫area.
‫So I'm assuming this question will have more than one map.
‫It must do and at a time span of 20 years.
‫So let's take a look at this map now.
‫OK, so we can see 1990 on the left and 2010 on the right.
‫So let's take a look at the early map, 1990.
‫So when you receive your questions, the first thing you want to do is to read the question just like
‫I did.
‫Then take a look at the visual information.
‫Now, I might go a little bit slower just so that you can see me analyzing the data, but this is exactly
‫what you will do, too.
‫And of course, then you'll write your plan.
‫So first, read the question.
‫Second, take a look at the visual information.
‫Third rate your plan.
‫So let's just take another look at this map so 1998 can see through the middle of the map.
‫We have a river to the left.
‫We have a forest at the top, ancient structure, rare plants and animals, as well as some mountains
‫sort of scattered around each corner of the map to the right to the east of the river.
‫There's some farmlands, irrigated farms and a village, too.
‫OK, so sounds like quite a nice place.
‫Let's take a look at Map two in 2010 so we can still see the river runs in the same area.
‫Of course, rivers always tend to stay in the same location, but there is a dam added a hydro electronic
‫dam, which really cuts off half of the natural flow.
‫These were all things we can describe.
‫A lake has been added a large lake where we can see sailing boats and fish.
‫And the two mountains, of course, remain at the top below to the south of this map.
‫We can see electricity stations both to the west and east of the river.
‫And a new village has been added to the west ussery the east of the river to.
‫Now, these mountains, these hills seem to have been flattened somewhat.
‫They have been destroyed in some respects and so that we can have the electricity stations and villages
‫added.
‫And in terms of change to the east of the lake, there is no longer an irrigated farmland and villages
‫we have.
‫We can see this changed into a hotel.
‫So we have hotel here now.
‫And that really is analyzing the map as a whole.
‫Of course, you won't need to do this completely before you start writing, but we need an understanding
‫of the maps main features before we begin.
‫So there you go.
‫So that really is a big sort of look at this map.
‫Now, the next thing I want to show you is super important for maps, and that is our vocabulary.
‫So this is taken from writing seven plus and this gives you some great language.
‫I would bookmark this in practice.
‫Using this language gives you some really focused vocabulary for four different types of changes on
‫maps.
‫So to the left, we have additions, things added, structures added, and we can see some language
‫there.
‫Then we have removed.
‫So things taken away.
‫For example, in this map, we can say that the farmlands were demolished and replaced with a hotel
‫here.
‫We have changed.
‫So I could say converted, repurposed, redeveloped all these really interesting pieces of language.
‫And next we have expanded.
‫So sometimes on certain maps we can see that structures or features of a map are made bigger.
‫And of course, we can use this language here.
‫So a super, super useful table again, taken from ALT'S rating seven.
‫Plus, I go a bit more into detail and give a lot more examples in that course, but super useful.
‫I would definitely practice using this during writing for maps.
‫OK, so it's time that we take a look at writing our plan.
‫So back to our plan now.
‫So we've looked at the question, we've analyzed the visual information and now it's time to write a
‫quick plan.
‫OK, so let's consider our grouping's, so group one, our first detailed paragraph now, there are
‫probably a few ways you could approach this with maps.
‫I often like to change Ostry look for a structure that separates the maps into two.
‫So the river that runs straight through these maps.
‫So to make it easier to compare, you could say group one, everything east, sorry, west, everything
‫west of the river, and then you can easily compare.
‫So basically both 1990 and 2010 go in the same group so we could say everything west of the river.
‫And then for group two, we would say everything east of the river.
‫And then of course, I can compare making comparisons where relevant and I'm really scoring higher on
‫my task achievements.
‫However, the river doesn't actually stay the same for both maps.
‫And maybe in 2010 it's easier to describe south of the river, north of the river, but it doesn't work
‫in the same way for 1990.
‫So what I will do is quite simply group by date.
‫So I'm not going to be making so many comparisons in my first detailed paragraph.
‫I'm just going to describe the map.
‫I'm going to report the main features.
‫But that doesn't mean that in Group two, I can't compare.
‫So when I discuss and report MAP 2010, I'll be able to compare it to the first map.
‫So I'll be able to say, for example, the irrigated farms in 1990 have been replaced by a hotel in
‫2010.
‫So that would be an example sentence for my detailed paragraph two.
‫So it seems like the easiest way to structure the most important thing to think about when considering
‫your grouping in a plan is what is the simplest way to do this?
‫Don't overcomplicate it.
‫Try and keep it really simple, because that will make your report easier to understand.
‫And that's the main idea.
‫We want to communicate and report everything in the simplest way.
‫Okay, so that's great.
‫And then the overview.
‫So one or two things we can say about the big picture, we don't need to say specifically what happened,
‫but maybe one sentence, two sentences to say the big picture.
‫Now, to be honest with maps, there is always a lot of change.
‫Generally speaking, there always is a lot of difference between the two or three maps show.
‫So we can pretty much always write the first overview sentence the same.
‫I'm just going to write lots of changes.
‫You'll see this when I start writing and you can pretty much steal the exact sentence.
‫So that's the first thing that I'll write.
‫And then I'm going to say also, what else could I say?
‫A big change is the lake added.
‫So I could say one of the biggest changes is the lake added.
‫But I'm also thinking that there's quite a lot of electricity and power power generators added.
‫So I'm going to say that there's one of the biggest changes was adding power generating systems.
‫So I'm not going into too much detail.
‫I'm just sort of giving a general idea of what happened in the map.
‫So Group one detail, paragraph one 1990 group to 2010.
‫And I'll make a lot of comparisons.
‫And of course, the overview, lots of changes between and these power generating systems, the dam
‫and the electricity power stations here.
‫That's a big change between the twenty years.
‫OK, so let's begin our writing.
‫OK, so the first thing, of course, we need to do is write our introduction structure, our introduction
‫paragraph of one sentence.
‫So let's take a look at the question again.
‫The maps show the development of an area.
‫Of course, we have this vocabulary here.
‫So maps are maps.
‫Let's just there's no need to change this.
‫The maps illustrate.
‫I love using that word in text.
‫One report illustrate the maps, illustrate the development, the change.
‫Jews of an area, another word for area could be location, the maps illustrate the changes of the same
‫area in some land and of course, capitalize for proper names.
‫The maps illustrate the changes of the same area in some land over a 20 year period.
‫So just writing it, paraphrasing this over a short time span of 20 years, over a 20 year period.
‫Let's read this back.
‫The maps illustrate the changes that the same area in some land over a 20 year period.
‫Perfect.
‫OK, so we're onto our overview and I'm going to use two sentences now.
‫I just said that the first sentence for the overview in maps, you can pretty much copy this.
‫Exactly.
‫For all questions overall, comma, we can see a lot of developments in this area over the time frame
‫over there, given a time.
‫Shown you can pretty much copy this.
‫Of course, we could write it in slightly different ways, but this is pretty much usable for almost
‫all maps overall.
‫We can see a lot of developments in this area over the given time shown.
‫OK, and I also said I was going to mention that a lot of structures have been repurposed to generate
‫electricity.
‫And I can pretty much just write that.
‫We can see a lot of structures have been repurposed, repurposed over the 20 years to generate power
‫and electricity.
‫OK, that looks good as always.
‫Excuse any spelling mistakes and that's great.
‫So that's our overview.
‫Now onto the main bulk of our writing.
‫So we're going to begin Group one with 1990.
‫The first thing I'm going to mention is that the river runs straight through the middle.
‫That's kind of the most important feature.
‫In 1990, a river runs straight through the middle of the map from south to north, from south to north.
‫Now, I'm just going to think logically, how can I describe these features?
‫So I'm just going to report the main features here, report the main features back to the question.
‫So I'm not going to report this and that and that and that.
‫I'm just going to go through everything and say where it is in relation to each other.
‫So comparing it to each other, each of the other structures.
‫And that's just really the structure of how can I describe it and what's the easiest way just means
‫that we're not going to miss anything.
‫And it's a little bit easier to write logically about to the north west of the map, a forest area and
‫mountain exist.
‫Slightly south of this and ancient structure was built.
‫And still stands and still stands, still stands, a nice phrase there.
‫OK, so next onto the rare plants and animals just below.
‫So I could say s again, but just below this, the examiner will understand.
‫I understand.
‫I mean, s but generally do try and use just skipped back.
‫So we generally do try and use these the compass just below this.
‫There are rare plants and animals and further south again is now I'm looking at this and thinking I'm
‫writing quite a lot already.
‫So I might actually skip this feature here.
‫I think I might just skip these things and just describe this so that I don't really go over that word
‫count.
‫I'm aiming for around 160, 180, 190 words.
‫Of course, normally within the 20 minutes, that's enough.
‫I've described the main features, especially the ones that have been labeled.
‫OK, so let's move on to the north east, to the north east.
‫Once again, a mountainous area exists making comparison once again.
‫South of this, we can see farmlands and a small village to the east of this.
‫I'm saying small.
‫It doesn't look particularly large.
‫So I think that's OK.
‫Generally, we wouldn't add too much detail that we don't know for sure.
‫Just report what you see.
‫But it looks pretty small.
‫So I think it's OK to say this.
‫Now, that looks good.
‫We've got about four sentences in for Group one.
‫Now we need to move on to Group two, which of course is this.
‫And I'll make comparisons.
‫It might be slightly longer than my group.
‫One paragraph here, OK, by 2010.
‫So I'm sort of ready to compare by 2010.
‫We can see many developments.
‫That's almost an introduction to my second paragraph.
‫We can see many developments.
‫Now, what would be the easiest way to discuss and report this now?
‫It seems really that this map is more split into north and south.
‫So I think I'll just start with the south.
‫I'm going to start at the bottom and make some comparisons and say how we have changed and developed.
‫And then I'm going to describe this area after.
‫So the river still runs from the south, but stops halfway up the map as a dam, as a hydro electric
‫dam has been.
‫And then we can use this added, built, added, constructed.
‫I like that has been constructed, constructed.
‫So I'm got I've done this top.
‫I've talked about the river.
‫Now I need to say west of the river and east of the river to the west of the river river sorry, just
‫south of the dam.
‫Power stations have been erected.
‫Just took a quick look at this table and used that word erected to the East.
‫OK, so now describe this area to the east.
‫We can also see some power stations, as well as a new village area that has been added, Purrfect added
‫again.
‫So I looked at this area here.
‫I'm not going to say the mountain and the hilly areas have been removed out.
‫More talk about what was removed or changed here.
‫OK, so let's just say north of the dam to the to the north of the dam, a large lake was, let's say
‫built was added.
‫Was added, and we can see sailing boats and fish here, too.
‫Now, all I really want to say to finish this off is just these two things.
‫Hey, how have the farmlands and villages changed?
‫How were they converted?
‫I think I would used, let's say redeveloped.
‫Let's actually say these were removed or pulled down and then we can say converted.
‫The area was converted the farmlands and villages.
‫So I'm making the comparisons here were removed and a hotel was developed, developed on this area of
‫the map.
‫And that's it really.
‫I have just described everything in full here, so I've really given a good detailed report of this
‫map.
‫Now, let's take a look at our word count to.
‫OK, so this stands at I think around I did check, but I've forgotten it's about 220 words, which,
‫to be honest, is a little bit over.
‫But I think that that's it's OK if you are writing quality and it's that long.
‫But I may be described to many of the features.
‫I'm glad I did not describe this area in my first paragraph because that would have made it far too
‫long.
‫But yeah, 220, of course, we kind of aim for that one eighty one ninety.
‫And the reason I say this is just to make sure you're completing your writing in twenty minutes, but
‫there we go.
‫So that is a very strong report on task one maps.
‫Any questions.
‫Please do drop me a message.