‫In this lesson, you will learn how to fully answer the question and score highly in the task achievement
‫section of the band descriptors.
‫Here are your lesson No.8.
‫By the end of the lesson, you will have a better understanding of which key information and data to
‫discuss in your answer, you will also understand how to create a very quick plan to help you write
‫a well-structured and well developed answer.
‫Again, please make sure you review the lesson no, it's at the end of this lesson, and if you have
‫any questions, please use the Q&A feature of this course.
‫Before we move on, let's review the six question typed in Eilts writing Task one.
‫Try posing the video and see if you can name the six different types of visual information.
‫And here are the names of the six question types.
‫For the first five types of visual information that bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, tables and
‫Macs, there are four key questions you must ask yourself to make sure you're describing the key information
‫now for processes.
‫It's a slightly different method of answering and selecting key information.
‫I will also show you how to do that.
‫To reach a Band seven score in writing Task one, you must ensure that you cover the requirements of
‫the task and that is to summarize, report and describe the data and information that you are given.
‫You also need to clearly present and highlight key features by asking yourself these four key questions.
‫Coming up, you ensure that you mark off these two requirements and you can score higher marks.
‫For all graphs, charts and maps, you must ask yourself and answer these four key questions.
‫First, what is the key data show in graphs and charts, look to the axes in tables, look to columns
‫and rows and on the maps, look for Keith or any other information given, then consider the key trends.
‫Does the data increase or does it decrease?
‫Then ask yourself, what are the big differences or similarities?
‫Is there anything that remains the same or are there big gaps between data?
‫Given differences and similarities are also very important for maps.
‫And the last question is.
‫Can I group the data into two groups?
‫This makes a lot of sense when writing and being able to logically order your answer right.
‫These four key questions down and we'll practice using them to help us plan some answers.
‫Using our four key questions will look at previous Eilts writing task one visual information and analyze
‫the data and select key information which we could describe.
‫Beginning with this bar graph, what is the key data show you may remember I suggested thinking about
‫titles X and Y axes or keys, and this bar graph has all for the graph shows as fiction book sales,
‫which we can see from the title.
‫And the key to the right of the graph shows what types of books were being sold.
‫The X axis records this over five years.
‫And on the Y axis, we can see the total amount of Grote earnings of each type of book.
‫What trends can you see in this graph?
‫Are there any increases or decreases which seem like a key feature?
‫Romance novels, which is the green bar, increases steadily from 2008 to 2010.
‫From 2007 to 2009, sci fi and fantasy novels decrease over this period.
‫Another trend could be from 2006 to 2007.
‫Mystery and romance novels both increased quite dramatically.
‫It's important to note that you only select and describe the big trend and big differences and similarities.
‫If there isn't anything interesting about the data, it's better to not describe it.
‫So what about the differences and similarities in this graph?
‫The biggest difference I can see is between romance novels and sci fi and fantasy.
‫Romance novels have much higher gross earnings than sci fi and fantasy and therefore sell a lot more
‫books.
‫For a similarity, you might report young adult and classic novels.
‫And between the years 2007 to 2009, their gross earnings were pretty much the same.
‫And could we put this data into two groups?
‫Well, it seems that we definitely could by using the key.
‫It might be easiest and most logical to put mystery and romance novels together as they're the highest
‫the lowest gross earners, which is young adults.
‫Classics and sci fi and fantasy could make up your second group by putting the data into two groups.
‫It will really help you structure and organize your answer.
‫And I'll be showing you a lot more about this later in the course.
‫Now will use our four key questions to analyze the data from a pie chart from a previous Eilts writing
‫exam.
‫First up, what is the key data we can see from the title that the pie chart shows the total school
‫spending and budget over two different years.
‫What trends can we see?
‫Well, first, I can see that teachers salaries increased by 10 percent while other workers salaries
‫decreased by six percent.
‫I can also see the budget for resources rose by five percent, whereas furniture and equipment fell
‫by 10 percent.
‫What differences and similarities can you see between these two pie charts?
‫Well, the first thing I notice is that salaries remain the highest percentage of total spending.
‫Insurance remains round about the same, between two to three percent.
‫And for our last key question, can I group the data into two groups?
‫Well, this is quite easy for the visual information we have.
‫It would make perfect sense to group between the two years of 1981 and 1991.
‫And again, this will help you to structure your answer and have two paragraphs where you give lots
‫of information.
‫I'll tell you more about this later in the course.
‫How about we take a look at using the four key questions to find and select key information formats,
‫so what is the key data shown on these maps?
‫Well, I can see that it's between two different time periods, 1995 and present.
‫The other information shown is the key landmarks on each map, such as housing, farm, land, fishing,
‫ports and shops.
‫Now, for months, there aren't any trends for you to describe, so you can dismiss this question,
‫but you must concentrate on differences and similarities.
‫So what are the differences and similarities in these two maps?
‫The first thing I notice is that the farmland and the Forest Park has been developed into a golf course
‫and tennis courts.
‫I can also see that housing has increased as the town has gotten bigger.
‫In the 1995 map, the shops and fish market have become restaurants and apartments and where there was
‫a fishing port in 1995 that is no longer there.
‫In present day, the cafe and hotel have remained unchanged, although the hotel has built additional
‫car parking space.
‫How could you separate them into two groups of data?
‫Well, there are lots of ways that you could do this, but I would probably split them up into the top
‫and the bottom.
‫That way I'd be describing housing, farmland, Forest Park golf and tennis courts together.
‫And then the next group would be everything underneath that.
‫But whatever way you can logically do it, it's completely fine and up to you.
‫So we've looked at charts and graphs and maps, but what about processes, how can you analyze the data
‫shown there?
‫Let's take a look now.
‫The way that we analyze data in a process diagram is very different to that of maps, graphs and charts.
‫That's because the main focus here is to describe stages.
‫The stages of the process diagram are our main interest, and this is what you will analyze and identify
‫as your key features.
‫From looking at the process diagram above, we can see that there are eight stages in this process.
‫The beginning is with the cows eating grass and the end result or product is milk, cheese, cream and
‫butter.
‫In your writing, you want to describe in more detail what each stage does, and it's also important
‫to try and break up the process diagram into two groups from looking at the process diagram of dairy
‫product production.
‫I would simply split the groups into the first four stages and the second four stages, and that will
‫help me to organize my writing and structure my answer.
‫We've now looked at how to analyze and identify key information for all six question types, but even
‫before we start writing next, we need to think about making a quick plan.
‫So let's discuss that now.
‫There are some teachers who suggest not to make a plan due to the 20 minute suggested time limit.
‫However, I think if you can create a good plan in one minute, it will help you score higher marks
‫in writing task one.
‫So how can we create a quick, useful plan?
‫I'll demonstrate with a previous Eilts writing task one question.
‫The graph below compares the number of visits of two new music websites online.
‫Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
‫The plan I'm going to show you now contains only three parts and can quickly be made in under one minute.
‫Have a look at this.
‫At first, you might be a little bit confused, but I guarantee this method of planning will be quick
‫and also help you write a well-rounded, higher scoring answer.
‫So let me explain what each part means.
‫G1 and G2 means Group one and Group two.
‫In the next lesson, I'll show you the exact structure you need to write your alts writing task.
‫One answer and having these two groups is very important.
‫So my first group one is from day one to seven and that will be one detailed paragraph.
‫My next group is from day eight to 15 and that will make another detailed paragraph.
‫I'll be teaching you how to write a short overview paragraph also in the next lesson, but to help plan
‫for that here in my overview plan, M equals music choice and P equals pop parade.
‫I want to briefly describe in my overview what the main trends are without giving specific data and
‫figures.
‫So for music choice, we can see that it starts low and begins to rise around week 11.
‫It remains relatively high with a slight dip in the final day.
‫Pot parade starts quite high and dips around week seven, where it then rises again and then finishes
‫at a high level.
‫This quick plan will ultimately save you time by organizing your ideas and giving you some extra structure
‫for when you begin writing your answer.
‫Here is another I writing task.
‫One question, and I want you to use the Q&A feature to show me a plan for this question.
‫You can pause the video and start making your plan, and here are your lesson notes, please make sure
‫you review them and if you feel confident, move on.
‫If not, go back through this lesson and take some more notes.
‫You could also drop me a message if you have any questions.
‫See you in the next lesson.