1 00:00:00,270 --> 00:00:07,410 There are two types of diagrams that you're going to encounter on academic writing task number one. 2 00:00:07,980 --> 00:00:12,660 In this particular lecture, we're going to address the map question. 3 00:00:13,230 --> 00:00:22,950 The map question doesn't appear as often as the line graph, pie chart, bar graph and the table. 4 00:00:23,130 --> 00:00:28,110 But when you get a diagram or a map, you have to be able to know how to handle it. 5 00:00:28,530 --> 00:00:35,730 Now, a lot of students think there's some different type of strategy or process for doing a diagram, 6 00:00:35,730 --> 00:00:37,350 map or process. 7 00:00:37,620 --> 00:00:45,870 And there's not is the exact same four paragraph strategy that I've taught you in all of the previous 8 00:00:45,870 --> 00:00:46,680 lectures. 9 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,730 So let's go ahead and move forward with this diagram map. 10 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:55,260 As I told you before, same strategy. 11 00:00:55,290 --> 00:00:56,610 Introduction. 12 00:00:56,790 --> 00:00:58,410 General Overview. 13 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,030 Specific detail. 14 00:01:00,030 --> 00:01:01,500 Specific details. 15 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:04,980 Again. 16 00:01:05,220 --> 00:01:08,490 We first scan for 2 minutes to pull out the information. 17 00:01:08,570 --> 00:01:10,260 Writing 1 to 2 sentence. 18 00:01:10,260 --> 00:01:13,830 Introduction 2 to 3 sentence General Overview. 19 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,240 So in this one, we're going to be looking at this map. 20 00:01:18,930 --> 00:01:22,710 This map is for the small town of Islip. 21 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:30,960 The maps below show the show the center of a small town called Islip as it is now, and plans for its 22 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:31,740 development. 23 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:38,550 So very often with a map, they'll show you the current plan and the future plan. 24 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:47,040 And your job is to be able to compare the similarities and differences between the two plans. 25 00:01:47,490 --> 00:01:49,380 Really, really straightforward. 26 00:01:49,950 --> 00:01:58,290 The challenge is being able to take these labels and details they have on the on the map and create 27 00:01:58,290 --> 00:01:59,430 sentences. 28 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:09,300 That's where the real English talent is shown in your ability to create sentences from limited information 29 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:16,680 of them, thus showing you locations and changes between the way it looks now and how it will appear 30 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,030 in the future. 31 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,810 So when I'm looking at this one, I can see many, many differences. 32 00:02:24,810 --> 00:02:27,270 Many differences, right? 33 00:02:27,270 --> 00:02:32,820 The upper row, the upper shops level has been changed, is replaced with the bus station, shopping 34 00:02:32,820 --> 00:02:34,050 center, car park. 35 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,690 In the past, there were two sets of housing, and now we have four sets of housing. 36 00:02:40,170 --> 00:02:41,640 Two new sets of housing. 37 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:43,680 And the old housing has been moved. 38 00:02:43,980 --> 00:02:48,780 We have a carriageway that goes around the entire city centre. 39 00:02:49,890 --> 00:02:52,590 We have a pedestrian walk that's been added. 40 00:02:53,130 --> 00:02:56,490 The bottom, the bottom shops row is the same. 41 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:58,770 The park, we can see the difference. 42 00:02:58,770 --> 00:03:01,260 The park has been reduced in size. 43 00:03:01,830 --> 00:03:05,280 The school has been slightly increased in size. 44 00:03:06,780 --> 00:03:14,850 So we have all this information, all this information, and we use this information to be able to write 45 00:03:14,850 --> 00:03:17,040 our introduction overview. 46 00:03:17,070 --> 00:03:24,060 Now when we write an overview we want to write on, these are the things that are still the same and 47 00:03:24,060 --> 00:03:25,770 these are the things that are different. 48 00:03:26,490 --> 00:03:29,730 Not getting into comparing how they're different. 49 00:03:32,070 --> 00:03:34,320 Just saying what is different. 50 00:03:34,530 --> 00:03:38,640 That's what that is what really goes inside of a general overview. 51 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:46,680 So to start off, I'm going to go ahead right now and write the introduction and general overview so 52 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,120 you can see what I'm doing. 53 00:06:17,650 --> 00:06:18,150 Och. 54 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:19,450 There we have it, everybody. 55 00:06:21,340 --> 00:06:26,050 We have our introduction and our general overview. 56 00:06:27,910 --> 00:06:29,140 Very, very straightforward. 57 00:06:29,140 --> 00:06:32,710 I actually love doing a diagram map. 58 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:40,270 I think it's I think it's easier than than probably the line graph, especially the line graph, the 59 00:06:40,270 --> 00:06:41,050 diagram map. 60 00:06:41,050 --> 00:06:47,560 When you see one of those on your real exam, you should get really, really happy because writing the 61 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:55,420 introduction and, and pointing out the differences in similarities is all you need to do to be able 62 00:06:55,420 --> 00:06:59,020 to write a great general overview and also write that introduction. 63 00:06:59,020 --> 00:07:07,390 Now you'll notice in this introduction I wrote two sentences and I did that just to show you what it 64 00:07:07,390 --> 00:07:09,040 would appear, how it would appear. 65 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:15,820 If you're writing two sentences for a for an introduction, because I haven't done that yet in the other 66 00:07:15,820 --> 00:07:16,660 lectures. 67 00:07:18,310 --> 00:07:18,710 Okay. 68 00:07:18,790 --> 00:07:23,620 So now I'll let you take a look at this in the full screen mode. 69 00:07:26,230 --> 00:07:26,590 Right. 70 00:07:26,590 --> 00:07:34,420 And you can see the introduction compared directly next to the map diagram that it's written for and 71 00:07:34,420 --> 00:07:35,830 the general overview. 72 00:07:36,490 --> 00:07:40,720 If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask me about something that I wrote. 73 00:07:41,170 --> 00:07:44,440 I hope that you're able to learn from this introduction and overview. 74 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:46,900 In the next lecture. 75 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:54,070 I'm going to go ahead and attack the specific detail paragraphs and show you how this done, how this 76 00:07:54,070 --> 00:07:54,730 is done. 77 00:07:54,730 --> 00:07:55,910 So I'll talk to you soon. 78 00:07:55,930 --> 00:07:56,770 Take care. 79 00:07:57,970 --> 00:07:58,390 All right. 80 00:07:58,390 --> 00:08:05,410 Now let's go ahead and move forward with our specific details, paragraphs for a diagram, map, question 81 00:08:05,410 --> 00:08:06,010 type. 82 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:17,920 And here you can see all of the information that I'm going to use to write these specific detailed paragraphs, 83 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,670 three and four we have highlighted in green. 84 00:08:23,170 --> 00:08:28,930 That means I'm going to compare that housing information and then I'm going to form a sentence talking 85 00:08:28,930 --> 00:08:31,000 about the shops and the park. 86 00:08:32,020 --> 00:08:39,760 Then we're going to have sentences talking about the bus station and shopping centre, the schools and 87 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:41,230 the dual carriageway. 88 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:47,440 So right now, what I want you to do is look at the sentences that I'm structuring. 89 00:08:47,470 --> 00:08:49,870 Look at the vocabulary that I'm using. 90 00:08:49,900 --> 00:08:56,110 Look at the different sentence types simple compound, complex sentences that I'm using. 91 00:08:56,140 --> 00:09:04,300 And please try to learn how to form high scoring sentence structures and how to take information that's 92 00:09:04,300 --> 00:09:09,310 not in sentence form and creating sentences from that information. 93 00:09:09,430 --> 00:09:14,200 I'm going to show you exactly what the examiners expect you to do. 94 00:09:15,460 --> 00:09:18,360 There we have the introduction and the overview. 95 00:09:18,370 --> 00:09:24,010 I put it there for you so that you can see it while I'm writing these specific details, paragraphs, 96 00:09:24,010 --> 00:09:26,560 which I will begin to do right now. 97 00:12:03,170 --> 00:12:03,960 All righty. 98 00:12:03,980 --> 00:12:10,250 There we have the first we have the first specific details, paragraph. 99 00:12:10,670 --> 00:12:14,900 You can go ahead and look at how I talked about the information. 100 00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:16,280 See your job. 101 00:12:17,030 --> 00:12:21,530 Your job to score very well is to show your ability to create sentences. 102 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:29,900 You have to be able to show your vocabulary because what you're doing is you're adding vocabulary around 103 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:37,130 these labels and you're showing your ability to compare from a current situation to a future situation. 104 00:12:37,790 --> 00:12:40,370 And there's a lot of different vocabulary. 105 00:12:40,370 --> 00:12:46,130 We have a lot of directional language that we have to use when we're doing this. 106 00:12:46,700 --> 00:12:47,270 All right. 107 00:12:47,810 --> 00:12:54,350 So now I'm going to go ahead and move forward and write the second specific paragraph. 108 00:17:09,830 --> 00:17:10,180 Okay. 109 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:11,450 And there you have it. 110 00:17:11,450 --> 00:17:17,360 We have the fourth paragraph written, the specific details paragraph. 111 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,390 I hope you were really able to learn from this. 112 00:17:20,810 --> 00:17:25,160 You can look at how I constructed the compound and complex sentences. 113 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:27,680 This is how you would write something. 114 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:32,420 If you plan on scoring an 8.5 or nine in your academic task. 115 00:17:32,420 --> 00:17:41,000 Number one, showing a lot of sentence structures, sentence variety, vocabulary, all of this will 116 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,330 really help you score very, very well. 117 00:17:47,650 --> 00:17:51,400 I'm going to go ahead and let you see it in full screen mode. 118 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,700 Really take your time, read through this. 119 00:17:58,030 --> 00:18:04,900 Look at the look at the map on the left hand side so you can see how I got all of this information and 120 00:18:04,900 --> 00:18:07,450 form sentences using that information. 121 00:18:10,510 --> 00:18:17,770 Coming up next, I will be moving forward and writing a diagram that involves a process. 122 00:18:18,070 --> 00:18:19,330 A process. 123 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:27,160 I'll scan through the details that I'm going to use and go ahead and write a great response for you 124 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:32,470 that you can learn from so that you're able to do the process at an expert level. 125 00:18:33,100 --> 00:18:35,020 Thank you very much for joining me. 126 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,900 I look forward to talking to you in the next lecture. 127 00:18:38,170 --> 00:18:43,960 I've absolutely enjoyed being your teacher for this academic writing task number one.