All right.
Let's move forward and take a look at another question type for the academic task number one.
Today, we're going to be looking at the pie chart.
The pie chart is a question type that appears quite frequently on the academic test, number one.
So you want to make sure that you're able to manage this perfectly.
Fine.
Let's take a look at it.
So we have our general strategy right here.
I went over and went over it in the previous lecture.
And here you can see it again every single time.
I'm going to remind you of it.
And the reason why I'm doing this is I have some students that skip to different lectures.
Somebody may not have have watched the previous lecture.
And so that's why you see me repeat things sometimes is because that does happen within a course like
this.
We're going to paraphrase the introduction, give a general overview, specific detail, paragraph one,
specific detail, paragraph two, four paragraphs, everybody, four paragraphs, 1 to 2 sentences for
the introduction, 2 to 3 sentences for the general overview, three sentences for detail, paragraph
one three sentences for detail.
Paragraph number two.
That's the preferred sentence count that I like to use.
So I'm going to do this one a little bit different than the previous one that we did here.
I'm going to go ahead and show you my introduction in general overview already written.
And so a good idea for you would be to pause the lecture and go ahead and write your own introduction
and general overview so you can compare it to what I did.
That's how you're going to improve.
Sometimes if you just watch what I'm doing mentally, you can process it.
Mentally you can say, Yeah, I get it.
I understand what he's doing, but trying to do it yourself is a totally different matter.
So once I go to the next screen and you see the pie chart, you want to go ahead and set your timer
for 5 minutes and proceed to write your introduction in general overview.
Then come back to the lecture and compare what you wrote to what I'm showing you on the screen.
Look at the sentence structure and vocabulary that I'm using.
Look at the comparisons that I'm that I'm using so that you're able to really improve, because that's
what I want for you.
So here we have the pie chart.
And when we're writing an introduction, we look at what it says in the description average percentages
of sodium saturated fats and added sugars in typical meals consumed in the USA.
Now for the introduction.
We're not going to repeat this information.
We're going to try to write it in our own words.
That's what impresses the examiners.
If you copy this language.
You're showing them that you're a basic level student.
You're showing them that you have no English talent at all.
And so you have to paraphrase this information.
Look at the description above.
Look at everything that they have here.
And use that information to write your own introduction.
Now you don't have to paraphrase every single word, but you should show some talent.
Now when it comes to the general overview, a general overview is where you're making macro comparisons,
macro comparisons, what are the general overall overreaching things that everybody can see?
At breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks?
What is the most?
We're talking about saturated fat.
What percentage is the greatest?
What percentage is the least when it comes to sodium?
What percentage is the greatest?
What percentage is the least for sugar was the greatest and the least.
You can write the general overview that way.
There are different ways to write it.
There are different ways to construct that data.
But we we also have something pretty much the same.
All right, so go ahead and stop the lecture now.
Set your timer for 5 minutes and write your general overview and introduction.
Then come back and you can compare it to what I wrote.
All right, so here is my introduction.
The three pie charts presented captured data describing the amounts of possibly detrimental supplements,
sodium saturated fats and sugar incorporated within four standard American meals.
When an examiner reads this, they're going to be impressed.
We don't see any weak verbs here.
No is our was where have having none of those weak basic level verbs
presented.
Capture data describing detrimental supplements Inc. Good collocations for standard American Meals.
That's a collocation possibly detrimental supplements.
That's a collocation.
Right.
You want to be able to write in a way that impresses the examiners.
That's your goal.
Remember your audience.
They don't tell you this.
But always remember you have an audience.
You're writing to the audience.
Now.
Let's go ahead and take a look at my general overview.
Broadly speaking, American citizens ingested the majority of their sodium and fat at dinner, while
sugar intake occurred mainly during snacks.
Another general perspective finds that breakfast contained the lowest percentage for all three nutrients.
That's the general overview.
Now, one thing I want you to look at is my variety of verbs.
This is talent.
This is what when when they say you want to show talent, show range.
This is what they're talking about.
Incorporated, ingested, intake contained.
All of these are paraphrasing or synonyms for eating.
Right.
You could have also used the word like consumed, but you want to show variety.
Also, we have a complex sentence here.
I'm showing my sentence range.
So it's all about showing that range and writing in a coherent manner.
Now, as I said, you could have just looked at each category individually.
And you could have had one sentence about sodium talking about what was the greatest and the least you
could have had another a second sentence about saturated fat.
Discussing that dinner was the greatest.
And breakfast was the least.
And then you could have had a third sentence about sugar, talking about how snacks or the greatest
percentage is the greatest percentage and.
Breakfast is the least percentage.
So you could have also written it that way and it would have been perfectly fine, everybody perfectly
fine to do it that way.
Right.
So this time I just wanted to kind of talk you through my paragraphs so that you can have a really solid
understanding of how to write an introduction and a general overview.
All right.
So thank you very much.
We're going to now move forward and write these specific, detailed paragraphs for this pie chart.
Thanks a lot.
Have a great day and I'll talk to you soon.