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‫Hello, all my students across the globe.

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‫I know I don't often do these videos where you can see me speaking, so hello, everybody.

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‫This is the first video I've actually done live recording, but I just thought it was an easy and quick

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‫way to answer a common question.

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‫So this morning, when checking your responses, I saw a student message.

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‫Julian, thanks for the message and asking about a question.

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‫I've seen quite a bit about Tascon reports about tents in Tascon report.

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‫And it's a common question where people are looking at my model and and say, well, shouldn't the task

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‫one report just be in the past tense?

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‫And actually, mostly we might use the past tense, but we can switch between tenses and using the correct

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‫tense in the right part of your test.

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‫One report is really important for your overall score.

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‫So understanding when to use past present future tense is really important.

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‫So we're going to take a look at just a simple task, one report question and we're going to discuss

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‫when we can use the different tenses and how really can affect our writing.

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‫Let's take a look at an elite writing task, one line graph, so before we start thinking about tenses,

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‫as always, when we see some visual information, take a moment to have a read and get an understanding

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‫of what it is we can say.

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‫Let's start with the Y axis going up.

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‫It says population percent.

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‫Of course, you'll notice that I don't have the question here.

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‫So I'm going to try and guess what the question may be.

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‫So on the Y axis, I have population along the X axis.

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‫I have a range of years and decades from 1960 to 2040.

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‫The data shown on the key below the dates is zero to fourteen, twenty five to sixty four and sixty

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‫five plus.

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‫So I'm going to I'm going to assume, and rightly so, that this is world population percentages by

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‫age group.

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‫So really quickly, good for an overview.

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‫Twenty five to sixty four always is the highest amount changes, only being between younger age group

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‫and the older age group.

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‫OK, so a quick look at the data we're working with and now let's consider different tent use for this

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‫question type.

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‫OK, so let's begin with nineteen eighty.

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‫I'm reporting date years in the past.

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‫Therefore it would make sense to use the past tense, which we do use for dates in the past.

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‫In 1980, the majority of the world's population was still twenty five to sixty four, which stood at

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‫just under 70 percent total.

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‫And a nice structure there as well.

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‫So I'm reporting a date in the past.

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‫I will therefore use the past tense.

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‫But what if I'm reporting or discussing predicted dates in the future where there's a couple of ways

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‫we can do this?

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‫And first, we have using the Future Tense.

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‫By the year 2030, 65 and over will rise to 30 percent of total population, tripling its figure in

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‫1980, that last part tripling its figure in 1980.

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‫A great bit of comparison, really good, fantastic achievement score in task one.

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‫But back to tennis will rise.

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‫It is predicted the figure will rise.

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‫So predicted because it's already been done.

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‫The graph has been made, predicted it will rise.

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‫So I'm using the Future Tense to discuss future dates.

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‫Past tense for past dates.

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‫Future Tense can be used for future dates, but we can also use the present simple tense for this.

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‫From 2030 to 2040, the figure slowly declines by a further two point three percent.

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‫And that's because in my voicing, in the tone of my writing, I'm reporting what I see now.

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‫So I use the present tense when I'm saying I am seeing this now and I will report in this tense, let's

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‫say in twenty twenty six or zero to fourteen decreases slightly.

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‫So I'm just reporting what I can see now and I use the present.

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‫Simple to do this, but in future days we can use present simple to.

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‫So just within these examples we have three different tense types and the examiner will be really impressed

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‫if you can use them in the correct place and accurately.

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‫There's also one other tense and advanced tense which we can use within our task report, and that is

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‫the past.

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‫Perfect.

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‫So I'm looking at these dates nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety and I can use the past perfect like

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‫in this example here.

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‫So from 1980 to 1990, the youngest age group had risen slightly by around one percent.

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‫So reporting past time up until a later date or now, I can use the past.

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‫Perfect.

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‫Let's take a look at sixty five plus.

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‫So nineteen eighty to twenty, twenty, sixty five.

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‫Years and older had risen massively between the dates of nineteen eighty to twenty twenty had risen.

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‫And there we have a really good example of past Purrfect, so we've got four Tensas there.

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‫And I hope you found those examples useful.

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‫OK, as you can see from the examples given it's really important that we're able to use a range of

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‫tenses in our accounts writing task, one report remembering that the band descriptors are split into

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‫four categories grammatical range and accuracy.

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‫Being one of those categories, grammatical range and accuracy makes up.

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‫Twenty five percent of your total band score and tenses are quite a big part of this.

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‫To score the higher band scores that's going up into the seven point five, eight or higher, you will

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‫be able to need to use a range of tenses within your task.

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‫One report and as you can see, there are definitely ways that we can do this between past, present,

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‫future, past, purrfect as well.

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‫So have a go when you're doing your practice reports have a go at trying to use different tenses.

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‫Sticking only to the past tense will mean you aren't able to score those higher band scores.

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‫And of course, everybody's looking for at least six point five or seven or higher.

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‫OK, so I hope you found this lesson useful.

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‫Any questions?

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‫Q&A section, as always.