‫Welcome to your first lesson in Section two, which is all about Alt's writing in this lesson, we're
‫going to focus on what else writing task one actually is and what kind of questions you might be asked.
‫First, let's take a look at your lesson, it which you can, of course, review at the end of this
‫lesson to see if you're ready to move on.
‫By the end of this lesson, you will know the six types of visual information you might see in Eilts
‫writing Task one.
‫Also, you will better understand what an elite writing task one question actually looks like.
‫First up, let's take a look at the essential information that you need to know about Alt's writing
‫Task one.
‫Simply put, I am writing task one requires you to write a report on some visual information shown to
‫you that could be a mix of charts, tables, diagrams or even a map.
‫For the most part, you will be reporting the main trend, differences and similarities in the information
‫presented to you.
‫You must write over 150 words, and if you don't manage to do that and write under this amount, you
‫will receive a penalty which will go against your score.
‫I highly recommend you only spend 20 minutes on task one as that will leave you 40 minutes to complete
‫writing task, too.
‫And there's a very good reason for this task.
‫One is worth a third of your whole out writing Mark.
‫So that means it makes sense to spend double the time on else writing task to.
‫To summarize Al's writing task, one, you must describe some visual information that is presented to
‫you.
‫There are a number of ways that this information could be presented to you, but more often than not
‫comes in graphs, charts, tables and diagrams.
‫Let's take a look at the six types of data that you could be showing.
‫We'll begin by looking at a bar graph, or it could sometimes be called a bar chart.
‫Now, the key features of the bar graph are the x axis, which is here, and the Y axis, which is here.
‫These are your bars which provide us with an amount of data or information.
‫This is some key vocabulary that you can use to describe a bar graph.
‫You can also use some of this vocabulary to describe a line graph which will look at now.
‫Much like the bar graph, a line graph also has an x axis and the Y axis, but there are no bars here.
‫We use a line to provide data and information and there might be more than one line on the ones that
‫you show.
‫You might be asked to describe the information in this, which is called a pie chart, as you can see,
‫there are no X and Y axes and we called these segments slices or a slice.
‫You could also be asked to describe a table which looks something like this.
‫The columns go down and the rows go across.
‫A slightly different way of presenting information is this, which is called a flow chart, the individual
‫boxes are called cells.
‫The final question time that will quickly look at is called a diagram.
‫The diagram could be showing you information from a range of topics, but there will be arrows to give
‫you information about what's happening.
‫Again, to summarize in Al's writing task, one, you must describe some visual information that is
‫presented to you.
‫This could be done in these six different types of questions.
‫Let's take a deeper look at some examples.
‫Before we see the question, let's talk through the information presented to us so first we can see
‫that this is a bar graph, beginning with the title at the top.
‫It's showing us the waste disposal in four different cities in the year 2004.
‫To the right, there is a Cullity which shows us the four types of data that have been recorded.
‫On the bottom, on the x axis, we can see the names of the four cities and to the left on the y axis,
‫we can see how it was recorded, which was the percentage of total waste.
‫Now, we have a better idea what this bar graph is showing us.
‫Let's take a look at the question.
‫The bar chart shows types of waste disposal in four cities in the year 2004 summarized the information
‫by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
‫Let's take a look at another example question.
‫I'm sure you might be a little bit surprised, and that's because you can see there are two types of
‫charts that are included in this question at the top.
‫We have a line chart and on the bottom we have a pie chart.
‫Starting from the top, let's take a look at the key features of this information.
‫So the line chart, that title is typical daily demand for electricity.
‫And we have two lines which give two different times of the year of winter and summer on the x axis.
‫We can see the different times of the day or the different hour of the day.
‫And on the Y axis is our measurement in units of electricity.
‫Below the line chart is the pie chart, and this shows what the electricity is used for.
‫To the right we have our key, which shows us what information is being recorded.
‫And on the left is our pie chart showing the amount.
‫The line graph shows the demand for electricity on a typical day in summer and winter.
‫The pie chart shows how electricity is used.
‫Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
‫That's all for the example questions, as I just really wanted you to quickly have a look and gain some
‫idea of what the Eilts writing task one questions might look like.
‫And as you can see, there is sometimes more than one chart or piece of visual information given to
‫you in the question to test your knowledge.
‫Let's have a quick quiz.
‫Hey, you need to match the text with the correct question, whether it's A, B or C, let's see the
‫first text.
‫The graph below shows the average food consumption in China between 1985 to 2010.
‫So what is your answer?
‫Is it A, B or C?
‫That's correct.
‫The answer is actually the line graph, which is saying, let's take a look at one more question.
‫The chart below shows the average spend on fast food in 1990 is the answer A, B or C?
‫Well, Tony, if you got that right, the answer was, in fact, based.
‫This brings us to the end of our first lesson on Aout writing task one, we've taken a look at the six
‫different kinds of visual information that you could be showing.
‫And we've also looked at some example questions.
‫If you think that you need to go back and relearn any of the information taught in this lesson, then
‫please do so in.
‫The next lesson will be looking at how the examiner scores us in writing task one.