‫So we're going to take a look at a model, right, of a bar graph, a very common question type within
‫Eilts writing task one.
‫So are we going through a full life answer of a bar graph?
‫So let's begin let's take a look at our question.
‫The bar charts show the types of holiday accommodation chosen in four British countries during 2010
‫summarized the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
‫OK, so back to our topic sentence in the question, the bar charts.
‫So I'm assuming there'll be a few of them types of holiday accommodation, I guess, hotels, caravans,
‫hostels, bed and breakfasts.
‫I think of any more right now in four British countries.
‫Well, being from Britain, I know that that will most likely be England, Scotland, Northern Ireland
‫and Wales during one year.
‫OK, one thing I want to remind people of the topic sentence.
‫Our first sentence in the question is important.
‫Our second sentence, which is always the same, is also important just to understand, select and report
‫main features.
‫We need to do that to achieve our task achievement band descriptor, make comparisons.
‫So there are really two important things.
‫Report main features, make comparisons where relevant when it makes sense to do so.
‫OK, let's take a look at these bar graphs, then these bar charts.
‫So there we have it looks pretty straightforward to begin with the title Holiday Accommodation chosen
‫by the British in 2010.
‫We have England on the left, followed by Scotland, Wales, then Northern Ireland on the x axis of
‫our bar chart.
‫On the Y axis.
‫We have percentages up from up from zero all the way to 60 percent.
‫Take a look at the key, please.
‫We have four types of accommodation.
‫Let's see what I got right self-catering, which means probably a cottage or a house that you rent and
‫you cook your own food.
‫Self catered.
‫We have a caravan, a very British type of holiday accommodation.
‫Then we have camping.
‫I think I said that.
‫And we also have hotels, of course, very popular indeed.
‫So just taking a look at this and getting a bit of an understanding first thing that springs to mind
‫possibly useful for the overview once we get to our plan, hotels super popular pretty much in all countries.
‫That could be a great piece of information for my overview.
‫Okay.
‫Before we write our plan, I want to show you some important language to review and remind yourself
‫of.
‫So here's some vocabulary for graphs and charts.
‫So that could be bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, whichever it is, and of course, taken from
‫one of the courses, My Alf's courses.
‫And it's just some interesting language and interesting visualization to remind yourself of the verb
‫plus adverb structure.
‫So on the left we have going down sankt plunge, decreased, dropped, fell, declined.
‫All these verbs for going down, the trend going down, then we have no change plateaued or stabilised.
‫And of course we have the trend of increasing, rocketed, surged, increased, grew, rose and climbed.
‫Of course we're all in the past tense here and we can plus this with the adverbs in the blue box on
‫the right.
‫And we go from a really quick, a huge change rapidly all the way down to just a small change, slowly.
‫So really important that we have a good understanding of all this vocabulary.
‫And it's super useful when we're writing to it might be wise if you haven't done this in ls writing
‫seven plus to bookmark this now and have a go using it in your writing too.
‫OK, so back to the question and the plan.
‫So here is my plan and I think it's time that I start grouping and thinking of my overview now.
‫OK, so let's begin with group one, of course.
‫So how would I go about or grouping these countries?
‫Remember when we grew up?
‫We want to keep it super simple, as simple as possible, really.
‫So how can I group the data in front of me where my first instinct is to have England versus Scotland
‫has group one and group two could be comparing Wales and Northern Ireland.
‫Or I could also do a remembering I can't group by time.
‫We only have one year.
‫I could also group by type of accommodation, self-catering and caravan in group one and camping and
‫hotel in group two.
‫They both could work.
‫But ask yourself when you group what is the most simple method of grouping?
‫What would be the easiest for the examiner to understand?
‫Key point.
‫And I think England and Scotland for Group one.
‫Purely because they're next to each other on the graph, no other reason, it's just makes sense for
‫me and Wales and Northern Ireland.
‫Now, it would also be true that the examiner will be able to see this.
‫So if you're grouping these two together in your answer kind of makes sense for the examiner.
‫It's not grouping England and Northern Ireland.
‫And he may be or she may be sort of thinking why of a group like that.
‫It makes sense to a group like this in our detailed paragraphs.
‫OK, so there we go.
‫So I've got my grouping superimportant and my overview.
‫Now, let's just consider a couple of ideas here.
‫So I'm going to obviously, before I said the first thing I noticed without reporting too many specific
‫figures is to say that hotels are the most important ostry, the most popular type of accommodation
‫in all countries.
‫I'm not giving any figures which I try not to do in my overview.
‫I just give the overall picture.
‫Is there anything else that we could say?
‫Nothing really comes to mind.
‫We can use one or two sentences for the overview.
‫Generally, one is OK as well.
‫There's nothing here that strikes me other than self-catering is quite popular in these three, but
‫not Northern Ireland possibly could mention this.
‫Is there anything that's not popular really?
‫I could say camping is generally considered not so popular, but not so much because caravans here.
‫So I just think basically to say that hotels are the most import, most popular hotels most popular.
‫Now, remember, this is obviously a slow example of writing our plan.
‫And you'll notice as I'm writing and obviously talking to you about this up this report, I'm analyzing
‫the data straight away.
‫I am understanding some of the information I can see.
‫And this is why a pun is super important, because it automatically makes us understand the visual information.
‫So this is really all I want to say.
‫I just want to say this.
‫Hotels are the most popular and there's nothing else that really strikes me here.
‫I can't see that one country likes going on holidays more, for example.
‫I think that would be it.
‫Okay, so my plan is complete and it's time for us to begin our writing.
‫And here we are, so as you can see, I've also added this information here, our key vocabulary for
‫bar charts and graphs of all sorts, just as a reminder for myself as I write, of course, the more
‫I use this, the more it becomes natural.
‫OK, so let's begin with our writing.
‫Of course, the first thing I need to do is to paraphrase my introduction.
‫So just take that topic sentence from the question and rewrite.
‫OK, the bar charts, so let's begin the bar charts, the given bar charts I always use given just to
‫mix up the supplied bar charts, I could put bar graphs to just make it a little bit different.
‫But really, a bar chart is a bar chart.
‫That's fine.
‫The supplied bar charts show.
‫Let's use illustrate display.
‫I always use illustrate.
‫Let's try and be different today.
‫Display the types.
‫What else can we say.
‫Four times the modes.
‫Possibly the modes.
‫The types.
‫The modes I'm going to use of holiday accommodation, accommodation enjoyed I will say enjoyed.
‫It doesn't have to be that.
‫That means that they change their sorry, a comma accommodation.
‫Enjoyed are still spelled that wrong.
‫How did I spy that wrong?
‫Oh, enjoyed Chozen purchased, used maybe will be better enjoyed.
‫Could also work used in four British countries.
‫In the four countries.
‫Of the U.K. during the year 2010 pretty much says exactly the same, it does say exactly the same as
‫this, but with slightly different language.
‫Let's read this back.
‫The supply bar charts display the modes of holiday accommodation used in the four countries on the United
‫Kingdom of the UK.
‫Good job.
‫I'm editing of the UK during the year 2010.
‫Perfect.
‫And now onto my overview.
‫Now, one thing I refuse to do is to change my overview opener overall, comma.
‫I really do like using this.
‫Overall, we can see that pretty much always can start my overview with this.
‫Overall, we can see that hotels were the most frequented, which means attended, which means that
‫I have visited the most frequented holiday stay in all countries.
‫Now, here, stay.
‫I'm really trying not to use accommodation too much.
‫I feel like I might repeat myself here.
‫So I'm going to start trying to think of different ways to say this.
‫Let's read this back.
‫Overall, we can see that hotels were the most frequented holiday stay in all countries.
‫Perfectly fine gives the big picture.
‫Doesn't give any figures, though.
‫No numbers or percentages given.
‫Just gives the overall big message of the data.
‫OK, so let's begin with group one.
‫And you remember that Group one is England and Scotland.
‫How can I explain this information so that it makes sense so that it's in order and I don't miss too
‫much.
‫I could go from blue to green to orange to red, blue to green, to orange to red in order to compare.
‫That just makes sense.
‫And maybe I could start with the highest and work my way down, but I'm probably just going to go from
‫hotels and describe the rest.
‫So let's say in England.
‫In England.
‫Over, we could say around, so we can't see the exact figure, but it looks about halfway between 50
‫and 60, around 55 percent of holiday makers.
‫Chose hotels.
‫In comparison.
‫In comparison to around 50 to about 52 percent in Scotland.
‫Again, I'm repeating myself from the overview, the highest proportion in both countries.
‫And then I'm going to probably go on to Blue, which looks to be the second most popular choice in both,
‫the second most popular accommodation, stay lodging could work, the second most popular lodging.
‫Lodging was self catering.
‫In both countries at 30 percent in Scotland.
‫And just slightly less.
‫Slightly less at twenty seven percent in England.
‫OK, so now we can see that we have significantly lower or we could say are looking at our vocabulary
‫here, we could say these figures sank significantly for both caravans and camping.
‫So just trying to use up these are really better for trend.
‫So trends are better on time, but we can still use them for this kind of bar chart in a single time
‫period.
‫So we could say these figures, let's say, plunged.
‫Plunged and then we probably don't want to say moderately, we're not going to say speed because speed
‫is over time, we need an adverb of a mount so moderately would be significantly, I think would make
‫sense significantly for both caravan and camping holidays in both countries.
‫Now I'm going to show you something that is wrong, sound strange?
‫It is, in a way.
‫But I just want to make this important point and I often see in people's writings.
‫So I'm just going to write something.
‫Now, I want you to think, what is wrong with this?
‫Let's just read back what I have so far.
‫The figures plunged significantly for both caravan and camping holidays, plural, of course, in both
‫countries.
‫OK, so what am I doing wrong here?
‫Most probably due to weather and let's say outdoor and weather and cold and coldness, not great English,
‫but it proves a point.
‫OK, so the figures plunged significantly for both caravan and camping holidays in both countries,
‫most probably due to weather and coldness.
‫OK, so what is wrong with this sentence here?
‫So I do see this happening at times.
‫And I just want to go back to the question here, summarize the information.
‫So report the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
‫At no point does it ask you to guess reasons for the date.
‫You can see all you need to do is to report the date.
‫So there's no need for me to give a reason on why I think the data has happened.
‫I don't know.
‫I'm just guessing said do not include anything like that.
‫The figures plunged significantly for both caravan and camping holidays in both countries.
‫I want to quickly give the percentages.
‫I don't want to then go into another long sentence, as I think I'm probably getting from just looking
‫at this so far and probably get into about the right size for my paragraphs here, especially my detailed
‫paragraphs.
‫So I'm just going to say the figures plunged significantly for both caravan and camping holidays in
‫both countries.
‫At between less find the lowest.
‫It looks to be around 16 percent, between 16 percent.
‫This is in this sort of caravan and camping here.
‫And then also, quite interestingly, which looks to be easy for me, is this camping and caravan here
‫is at around 12 percent.
‫Oh, and here I made a mistake at six percent for these here to 12 percent between six and 12 percent
‫for each team.
‫Now, I'm not going into too much detail here.
‫I'm not saying exactly which which of these holiday types and in which country is at which figure.
‫I'm just giving a bit of a general statement.
‫The figures plunged significantly for both caravan and camping holidays in both countries, between
‫six and 12 percent for each in any country in both countries.
‫I could add that, but I'm just going to leave that as I've already said it.
‫It gives a good enough idea of caravan and camping holidays and reporting the main features, of course.
‫Okay, so that's England and Scotland.
‫Don't let's have a quick read.
‫Back in England, around 55 percent of holidaymakers chose hotels in comparison to about 52 percent
‫in Scotland.
‫Hyphen.
‫Love that punctuation again, the highest proportion in both countries.
‫The second most popular lodging was self-catering in both countries at 30 percent in Scotland and just
‫slightly less at 20 percent in England.
‫The figures plunged significantly for both caravan and camping holidays in both countries at between
‫six and 12 percent for each.
‫OK, so group one is done.
‫Nice detail here.
‫So I'm probably going to begin in a similar way and describe this in a similar way.
‫In a similar way, let's say hotel hotels were the most popular in Wales, and I'm not going to write,
‫I'm going to have a brief use an abbreviation here for Northern Ireland and type and I because it's
‫a bit of a long word or double word, Wales.
‫And I meant, let's say 40 at around 48 percent.
‫And that's Wales, 48 percent, 49 percent.
‫That's OK.
‫And let's say 45 percent, respectively.
‫Always good to use at least once in our writing in a similar way.
‫Hotels were the most popular in Wales, in Northern Ireland at around 48 percent and forty five percent
‫respectively, in a similar way.
‫A great way to make comparisons between groups or sets of data.
‫OK, so up next, I can say that maybe I can talk about we can say in Wales, the second most popular
‫with self-catering, although this was one of the least popular modes in Northern Ireland.
‫Let's write this in in Wales, the second most popular accommodation have a use that in the previous
‫sentence I haven't.
‫The second most popular accommodation was self-catering where as I keep misspelling here, accommodation
‫was self-catering.
‫Where as.
‫The where as the second most favored choice I'm using paraphrasing here, I don't want to say second
‫most popular again, the second most favoured choice in Northern Ireland was a caravan caravan trips.
‫So I'm not giving I haven't given the percentage here I could do.
‫In Wales, the second most popular accommodation was self-catering.
‫You know what I will with Bracket and I'm going to say here, 28 percent.
‫I quite like using brackets in my writing, it definitely adds a little bit of flair, a little bit
‫of extra sort of showing off your skills, so do try and use them a little bit.
‫Of course, do not overuse it.
‫Let's go back in way.
‫The second most popular accommodation was self-catering 28 percent, whereas the most second, whereas
‫the second most favoured choice in Northern Ireland was caravan trips.
‫And I'll use brackets again, 30, it looks to be 31 percent.
‫OK, so I'm definitely coming up to about that 150 mark just by looking at it, so you know what I'll
‫do?
‫I'm going to speed this up a little bit and just sort of probably in a similar way, just say that both
‫we can say in Wales and Northern Ireland, caravan and camping, or I could maybe just say in Wales,
‫a caravan and camping with a least popular between.
‫And in Northern Ireland, these two were the least popular between kind of just speeding up a little
‫bit because I need to be careful on time.
‫In Wales, the two least popular types of lodging are use.
‫Lodging again were caravans and camping between, let's say, eight percent to around 13 percent in
‫Northern Ireland.
‫In Northern Ireland, both self-catering and here I can see they're the same the same amount, so I'll
‫mention this both self-catering and camping were, let's say, a third, the joint third popular choices
‫at Ekwall, 12 percent.
‫Let's say let's just rewrite this a little bit in Northern Ireland, both self-catering and camping
‫with a joint third popular choices at equal to 12 percent each.
‫OK, so just sped up a little bit for the last two sentences, let's read back to ensure that I have
‫not made any mistakes dramatically in Wales, the two least popular types of lodging were caravans and
‫camping between eight percent to 13 percent in Northern Ireland, both self-catering and camping with
‫a joint a third least popular choices.
‫Let's add this in at least popular choices at equal to 12 percent each.
‫Great.
‫So I've really given some good detail at the end there.
‫Let's take a look at the word count.
‫OK, so my word count is, as I have checked, stands at a hundred and seventy eight words, and I would
‫say that really that's about the ideal size of a task.
‫One report, if we're sort of a hundred and fifty two, it's almost too short.
‫Maybe not enough detail.
‫Over 220 starting to get long, 250, maybe that's far too long.
‫And of course within the 20 minutes we have to have finished all of this from receiving the question
‫to writing a plan to creating our full report.
‫It gets easier with more practice.
‫So again, here we have a really strong answer for a task.
‫One report for a bar chart.
‫Of course, you could write your own so you could maybe screenshot this with the question and try and
‫write your own and then compare to me.
‫That would be a great activity for you to undertake.
‫OK, so let's move on to our next lesson.