at how to describe you IELTS Academic Task 1 Pie Chart. This is the quick version because

there is another video which goes into much more detail. It�s about 15 minutes long.

Okay? So, this is the summary, the overview. Let�s get going. First of all, you need

to know what type of language you�re going to use and this means, getting familiar with

the fractions. Okay? You need to know that 50% is half. Okay? So, you can say half of

the exports come from Canada or a quarter of the exports come from China. Quarter�s

obviously 25%. If you want to go even further, you can make

sure that you are familiar with like a more advanced structures like slightly under a

quarter of the exports came from China. Now, slightly is a more elaborate eloquent way

of saying let's say, instead of saying, "24%", "slightly under a quarter".

Or if it's "51%" we can say �just over half of the exports came from Russia

or wherever it is. So, varying the language we use and using

slightly more sophisticated structures will help us a lot in getting or picking up some

of the good points, okay, some of the high points.

Next one: we also need to implement the superlatives. In this case, what we're going to do is

we're definitely going to mention the largest portion and the smallest portion, without

fail because by the very nature, the kind of exceptions, alright?

So, we're going to mention the biggest, so in this case, we�ll say the largest portion

of export came from Yorkshire, for example or whatever.

Just a side note here, to improve the vocabulary even more, we will use words like the largest

or the most prominent. Try to avoid using words like good, bad, big, small as these

are kind of like basic vocabulary. Now, we'll go into the language. The next

thing while we're talking about selecting and choosing, reporting on the portions is

if we find three portions that are roughly the same, three portions that are say 10%,

12% and 15%, for example. What we can do is group them together and then we can use the

famous sentence, respectively. For example: Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Lancashire

had 10%, 12%, and 15% respectively, of total exports. So, getting to groups with that sentence

is very useful, as well. Now, so that's the language and the choosing

of information. How are we going to structure the actual report? First of all, like I�ve

said even in the other videos, what we want to do is quickly describe what the graph is

showing, not the story. So, to describe what the graph is showing, we're just going to

reinterpret the title, paraphrase it and then just write it. We're not going to mention

anything about the largest, the smallest, the fastest growing or whatever. We�re just

going to restate title, that's it. We're not going to implement the story,

we're not going to talk about the story because we'll save that for the summary.

It's not a conclusion, by the way. So, we've got our introduction then the body paragraph.

It might be one, it might be two, depending. If you've got a pie chart and a line graph,

then you'll probably want to use two paragraphs. If you've got maybe three pie charts, one

bulk body paragraph and then your summary. To become a professional comes just through

practice. It's not an easy task. It's selecting information. So we've got our introduction,

body paragraph, and then we�re going to finish with our summary sentence. Now, what's

really important as well, is that we plan the essay before we actually start. So we're

going to choose what information we�re going to implement or what we�re going to report

about in our body paragraph because it has already more or less got two sentences completely

under control with the introduction and the summary. Basically, it�s about eight, ten

sentences left. Choose that information before you start writing

and then transfer from your notes into your writing using superlative and all those language

points we talked about before. Then as a final bonus tip. Once you've done all this and

hopefully you can do this between 15, 18 minutes, leave about 2 minutes to go through all the

words, all the sentences and look for mistakes. But don't just look for mistakes in a general

fashion. Look for mistakes that you�ve made previously on a writing task that you've

written before. So, what you should have done is get some

feedback on your writing. You can send it to me. Final and see check. You can send it

to me and I'll say, �Look, Maria or whoever. You've got this, this, and this wrong. Singular/plural

is a serious problem for you and I don�t know. Sex and genitive, as well.�

What you really should do the next part is -- sorry for the next essay she writes, is

in those two minutes afterwards, look for the mistakes that she�s made in essays previously

that she sent to me. If I were Maria, I'd be like, "Okay I've got to look for singular/plural,

third person singular, sex and genitive and this way you can at least pick up 5%, 10%

extra points. Go through, correct your own mistakes, so

the examiner doesn't have to, happy days. You're going score high. Alright? Okay then.

So hopefully that will help you. If you want more tips like that, the more advice, the

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let�s get cracking. Okay? All the best!