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All right.

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Let's move forward and take a look at another question type for the academic task number one.

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Today, we're going to be looking at the pie chart.

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The pie chart is a question type that appears quite frequently on the academic test, number one.

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So you want to make sure that you're able to manage this perfectly.

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Fine.

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Let's take a look at it.

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So we have our general strategy right here.

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I went over and went over it in the previous lecture.

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And here you can see it again every single time.

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I'm going to remind you of it.

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And the reason why I'm doing this is I have some students that skip to different lectures.

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Somebody may not have have watched the previous lecture.

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And so that's why you see me repeat things sometimes is because that does happen within a course like

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this.

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We're going to paraphrase the introduction, give a general overview, specific detail, paragraph one,

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specific detail, paragraph two, four paragraphs, everybody, four paragraphs, 1 to 2 sentences for

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the introduction, 2 to 3 sentences for the general overview, three sentences for detail, paragraph

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one three sentences for detail.

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Paragraph number two.

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That's the preferred sentence count that I like to use.

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So I'm going to do this one a little bit different than the previous one that we did here.

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I'm going to go ahead and show you my introduction in general overview already written.

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And so a good idea for you would be to pause the lecture and go ahead and write your own introduction

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and general overview so you can compare it to what I did.

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That's how you're going to improve.

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Sometimes if you just watch what I'm doing mentally, you can process it.

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Mentally you can say, Yeah, I get it.

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I understand what he's doing, but trying to do it yourself is a totally different matter.

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So once I go to the next screen and you see the pie chart, you want to go ahead and set your timer

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for 5 minutes and proceed to write your introduction in general overview.

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Then come back to the lecture and compare what you wrote to what I'm showing you on the screen.

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Look at the sentence structure and vocabulary that I'm using.

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Look at the comparisons that I'm that I'm using so that you're able to really improve, because that's

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what I want for you.

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So here we have the pie chart.

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And when we're writing an introduction, we look at what it says in the description average percentages

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of sodium saturated fats and added sugars in typical meals consumed in the USA.

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Now for the introduction.

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We're not going to repeat this information.

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We're going to try to write it in our own words.

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That's what impresses the examiners.

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If you copy this language.

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You're showing them that you're a basic level student.

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You're showing them that you have no English talent at all.

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And so you have to paraphrase this information.

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Look at the description above.

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Look at everything that they have here.

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And use that information to write your own introduction.

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Now you don't have to paraphrase every single word, but you should show some talent.

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Now when it comes to the general overview, a general overview is where you're making macro comparisons,

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macro comparisons, what are the general overall overreaching things that everybody can see?

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At breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks?

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What is the most?

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We're talking about saturated fat.

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What percentage is the greatest?

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What percentage is the least when it comes to sodium?

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What percentage is the greatest?

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What percentage is the least for sugar was the greatest and the least.

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You can write the general overview that way.

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There are different ways to write it.

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There are different ways to construct that data.

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But we we also have something pretty much the same.

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All right, so go ahead and stop the lecture now.

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Set your timer for 5 minutes and write your general overview and introduction.

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Then come back and you can compare it to what I wrote.

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All right, so here is my introduction.

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The three pie charts presented captured data describing the amounts of possibly detrimental supplements,

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sodium saturated fats and sugar incorporated within four standard American meals.

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When an examiner reads this, they're going to be impressed.

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We don't see any weak verbs here.

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No is our was where have having none of those weak basic level verbs

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presented.

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Capture data describing detrimental supplements Inc. Good collocations for standard American Meals.

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That's a collocation possibly detrimental supplements.

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That's a collocation.

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Right.

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You want to be able to write in a way that impresses the examiners.

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That's your goal.

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Remember your audience.

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They don't tell you this.

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But always remember you have an audience.

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You're writing to the audience.

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Now.

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Let's go ahead and take a look at my general overview.

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Broadly speaking, American citizens ingested the majority of their sodium and fat at dinner, while

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sugar intake occurred mainly during snacks.

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Another general perspective finds that breakfast contained the lowest percentage for all three nutrients.

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That's the general overview.

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Now, one thing I want you to look at is my variety of verbs.

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This is talent.

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This is what when when they say you want to show talent, show range.

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This is what they're talking about.

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Incorporated, ingested, intake contained.

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All of these are paraphrasing or synonyms for eating.

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Right.

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You could have also used the word like consumed, but you want to show variety.

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Also, we have a complex sentence here.

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I'm showing my sentence range.

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So it's all about showing that range and writing in a coherent manner.

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Now, as I said, you could have just looked at each category individually.

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And you could have had one sentence about sodium talking about what was the greatest and the least you

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could have had another a second sentence about saturated fat.

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Discussing that dinner was the greatest.

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And breakfast was the least.

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And then you could have had a third sentence about sugar, talking about how snacks or the greatest

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percentage is the greatest percentage and.

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Breakfast is the least percentage.

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So you could have also written it that way and it would have been perfectly fine, everybody perfectly

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fine to do it that way.

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Right.

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So this time I just wanted to kind of talk you through my paragraphs so that you can have a really solid

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understanding of how to write an introduction and a general overview.

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All right.

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So thank you very much.

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We're going to now move forward and write these specific, detailed paragraphs for this pie chart.

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Thanks a lot.

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Have a great day and I'll talk to you soon.