IETLS-WrittingTask1

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Remember

  • Write a report: 描述看到的图表
  • No opinions：不应该具有主观描述
  • No conclusion:任务是写一个Overview

Parts

  1. Introduction: 一句话解释问题
  2. Overview：两句话main or general things
  3. Details:两段有助于段落的衔接,第一段描述起点
  4. Details：第二段描述趋势

Types

Line Graph

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  • 比较这些曲线，而不是单独描述它们
  • 不要单独写一段
  • 两种类型的比较：总体上的(overview) + 特定点上的曲线(details)
  • 图例上的单词往往不能用作句子动词的主体；

Introduction例句

  • The graph below shows electricity production(in terawatt hours) in France between 1980 and 2012.（图片上方原题）
  • The line graph compares the amount of electricity produced in France using 4 different sources of power over a period of 32 years.（优化）

Overview例句

  • It is clear that nuclear power was by far the most important means of electricity generation over the period shown.(最高者)
  • Renewables provided the lowest amount of electricity in each year.(最低者)

Details1例句

  • In 1980, thermal power stations were the main source of electricity in France, generating around 120 terawatt hours of power. (比较起点最高值)
  • Nuclear and hydroelectricity power stations produced just under 75 terawatt hours of electricity each, and renewable provided a negligible amount. (比较起点其他值)

Details2例句

  • Just one year later, nuclear power overtook thermal power as the primary source of electricity.
  • Between 1980 and 2005, electricity production from nuclear power rose dramatically to a peak of 430 terawatt hours.
  • By contrast, the figure for thermal power fell to only 50 terawatt hours in 1985, and remained at this level for the rest of the period.
  • Hydroelectricity power generation remained relatively stable, at between 50 and 80 terawatt hours, for whole 32-year period.
  • But Renewable electricity production saw a small rise to approximately 25 terawatt hours by 2012.

Bar Chart

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这类横轴为时间的柱状图和线形图类似；描述changes over all months;

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这类横轴为Item的柱状图需要compare bars；

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Introduction例句

  • The bar chart compares the number of mobile phone sold worldwide by the five most popular manufactures in the years 2009, 2011, and 2013.

Overview例句

  • It is clear that Nokia sold the most mobile phones between 2009 and 2011, but Samsung became the best selling brand in 2013.
  • Samsung and Apple saw the biggest rises in sales over the 5-year period.

Details1例句

  • In 2009, Nokia sold close 450 million mobile phones, which was almost double the number of handsets sold by Samsung, the second most sucessful manufacture.
  • Over the following 5 years, however, Nokia’s sale figures fell by approximately 200 million units, whereas Samsung saw sales rise by a similar amount.
  • By 2013, Samsung had become the market learder with sales reaching 450 million.

Details2例句

  • The other three top selling mobile phone brands between 2009 and 2013 were LG, ZTE and Apple.
  • In 2009, these companies sold around 125 million, 50 million and 26 million mobile handsets respectively, but Apple overtook the other two vendors in 2011.
  • In 2013, purchases of Apple handsets reached 150 million units, while LG saw declining sales and the figures for ZTE rose only slightly.

Pie Chart

  • pie chart可以表示数字，可以表示百分比，当看不见数字或比例时，依然可以进行大约的估计；
  • pie chart 可以比较随时间的变化；

Table

  • Table可以表示任何一种数字，也可以表示时间的变化
  • 表示和line，bar，pie表一样的信息
  • 需要做出数字的比较，但是难以描述所有的信息

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Introduction

  • The table compares the five highest ranking countries in terms of the number of tourists and tourists spending over a period of 2 years.

Overview

  • Overall, it is clear that France was the world’s most popular tourists destination in the years 2012 and 2013.
  • However, the USA earned by far the most revennue from tourism over the same period.

Details

  • In 2012, 83 million tourists visited France, and the USA was the second most visited country, with 66.7 million tourists.
  • Spain and China each receiveed just under 58 million tourists, while Italy was ranked of bettwen 1 and 4 million tourists.
  • 2013 saw a rise of bettwen 1 and 4 million tourist visits to each country, with the exception of China, which recieve 2 million fewer visitors than in the previous year.
  • Spending by tourists visiting the USA increaseed from $126.2 billion in 2012 to 139.6 billion in 2013, and these figures were well over twice as high as these for any other country.
  • Spain received the second highest amounts of tourist revenue, rising from $56.3 billion to $ 60.4 billion, follow by France, CHina and Italy.
  • Interestingly, despite falling number of tourists, Chinese revenue from tourism rose by $1.7 billion in 2013.

Comparing Diagram

Process Diagram