1. What will help you to identify the key information while analysing visual information?
2. What your overview can be based on?
3. Do you need to copy the information from the bar chart given?
A Task 1 question can also ask candidates to describe a process. The structure of and answer to a question like this would be determined by the stages of the process.
In the answer, candidates should use linking words such as first, then, next and finally to lead the reader through the description; this would demonstrate coherence and cohesion.
Put the sentences into correct order and complete them
Producing potato crisps
_____________they are washed again.
After being dried, they are cooked.
______________ , the potatoes are peeled and washed with cold water.
____________, they are transferred into bags, ready to be sold in shops.
When this has been done, they are carried by the conveyor belt to be sliced.
Do we use passive or active constructions to describe the process?
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Firstly, |
The first step is |
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First of all, |
The first stage is |
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To begin with, |
... begins with |
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Initially |
... commences with |
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Beforehand, |
Before this, |
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Previously, |
Prior to this, |
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Earlier, |
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At the same time, |
During |
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Simultaneously, |
When this happens |
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While |
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Secondly, Thirdly etc |
After this, |
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Next, |
The next step is |
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Then, |
In the next stage, |
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Subsequently, |
In the following stage, |
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Later, |
Following this, |
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As soon as the committee has finished its work, ... |
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Eventually, |
... until ... |
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Lastly |
... finishes with ... |
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Finally, |
concludes with |
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In the last stage, |
The last step is ... |
Read the answer below. Try to keep in mind the four assessment criteria:
Task achievement
Coherence and cohesion
Lexical resource
Grammatical range and accuracy
Write what you think are the answer's strengths and weaknesses and decide which band it would be awarded. Then look at the comments and compare your ideas.
Answer
The table shows how much time men and women spent on leisure activities. Men spent more time on hobbies, games, sport and audio-visual entertainment. Whereas women spent more time on all the other categories. They both spent almost the same amount on time on reading, sleeping and audio-visual entertainment. Yet there is a big difference in the category of ‘housework and childcare’. Men spent about one and a half hour on this. Whereas women spent more than twice as much time on this chore.
Women spent one fourth more time on voluntary work compared to men. However. Men spent 25 minutes more time on audio-visual entertainment as women do.
Women and men spent both most time on sleep and rest. In addition, they spent the least amount of time on voluntary work, reading, personal care and hobbies.
It was surprising that women spent much more time on housework and childcare. That leaves the question open if there is a lack of emancipation in that category.
