1 00:00:00,420 --> 00:00:09,000 ‫Welcome to your first lesson in Section two, which is all about Alt's writing in this lesson, we're 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:17,930 ‫going to focus on what else writing task one actually is and what kind of questions you might be asked. 3 00:00:19,580 --> 00:00:26,000 ‫First, let's take a look at your lesson, it which you can, of course, review at the end of this 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,550 ‫lesson to see if you're ready to move on. 5 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:38,300 ‫By the end of this lesson, you will know the six types of visual information you might see in Eilts 6 00:00:38,350 --> 00:00:39,670 ‫writing Task one. 7 00:00:40,810 --> 00:00:48,220 ‫Also, you will better understand what an elite writing task one question actually looks like. 8 00:00:49,860 --> 00:00:56,760 ‫First up, let's take a look at the essential information that you need to know about Alt's writing 9 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:57,630 ‫Task one. 10 00:00:58,610 --> 00:01:08,240 ‫Simply put, I am writing task one requires you to write a report on some visual information shown to 11 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:14,330 ‫you that could be a mix of charts, tables, diagrams or even a map. 12 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:23,030 ‫For the most part, you will be reporting the main trend, differences and similarities in the information 13 00:01:23,030 --> 00:01:24,350 ‫presented to you. 14 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:33,380 ‫You must write over 150 words, and if you don't manage to do that and write under this amount, you 15 00:01:33,380 --> 00:01:36,740 ‫will receive a penalty which will go against your score. 16 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:45,690 ‫I highly recommend you only spend 20 minutes on task one as that will leave you 40 minutes to complete 17 00:01:46,070 --> 00:01:47,440 ‫writing task, too. 18 00:01:47,810 --> 00:01:51,070 ‫And there's a very good reason for this task. 19 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:55,630 ‫One is worth a third of your whole out writing Mark. 20 00:01:55,970 --> 00:02:01,580 ‫So that means it makes sense to spend double the time on else writing task to. 21 00:02:02,850 --> 00:02:10,620 ‫To summarize Al's writing task, one, you must describe some visual information that is presented to 22 00:02:10,620 --> 00:02:10,850 ‫you. 23 00:02:12,230 --> 00:02:18,890 ‫There are a number of ways that this information could be presented to you, but more often than not 24 00:02:18,890 --> 00:02:22,650 ‫comes in graphs, charts, tables and diagrams. 25 00:02:23,390 --> 00:02:28,340 ‫Let's take a look at the six types of data that you could be showing. 26 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:35,960 ‫We'll begin by looking at a bar graph, or it could sometimes be called a bar chart. 27 00:02:36,650 --> 00:02:43,880 ‫Now, the key features of the bar graph are the x axis, which is here, and the Y axis, which is here. 28 00:02:44,910 --> 00:02:50,670 ‫These are your bars which provide us with an amount of data or information. 29 00:02:51,390 --> 00:02:56,410 ‫This is some key vocabulary that you can use to describe a bar graph. 30 00:02:57,090 --> 00:03:02,640 ‫You can also use some of this vocabulary to describe a line graph which will look at now. 31 00:03:03,830 --> 00:03:12,980 ‫Much like the bar graph, a line graph also has an x axis and the Y axis, but there are no bars here. 32 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:19,820 ‫We use a line to provide data and information and there might be more than one line on the ones that 33 00:03:19,820 --> 00:03:20,590 ‫you show. 34 00:03:21,740 --> 00:03:29,150 ‫You might be asked to describe the information in this, which is called a pie chart, as you can see, 35 00:03:29,150 --> 00:03:36,190 ‫there are no X and Y axes and we called these segments slices or a slice. 36 00:03:37,130 --> 00:03:42,130 ‫You could also be asked to describe a table which looks something like this. 37 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,460 ‫The columns go down and the rows go across. 38 00:03:47,790 --> 00:03:55,650 ‫A slightly different way of presenting information is this, which is called a flow chart, the individual 39 00:03:55,650 --> 00:03:57,450 ‫boxes are called cells. 40 00:03:58,890 --> 00:04:03,690 ‫The final question time that will quickly look at is called a diagram. 41 00:04:05,140 --> 00:04:12,550 ‫The diagram could be showing you information from a range of topics, but there will be arrows to give 42 00:04:12,550 --> 00:04:14,610 ‫you information about what's happening. 43 00:04:15,770 --> 00:04:23,660 ‫Again, to summarize in Al's writing task, one, you must describe some visual information that is 44 00:04:23,660 --> 00:04:24,970 ‫presented to you. 45 00:04:26,090 --> 00:04:29,980 ‫This could be done in these six different types of questions. 46 00:04:31,290 --> 00:04:34,290 ‫Let's take a deeper look at some examples. 47 00:04:36,070 --> 00:04:43,960 ‫Before we see the question, let's talk through the information presented to us so first we can see 48 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,780 ‫that this is a bar graph, beginning with the title at the top. 49 00:04:48,790 --> 00:04:54,760 ‫It's showing us the waste disposal in four different cities in the year 2004. 50 00:04:55,700 --> 00:05:02,390 ‫To the right, there is a Cullity which shows us the four types of data that have been recorded. 51 00:05:03,540 --> 00:05:11,330 ‫On the bottom, on the x axis, we can see the names of the four cities and to the left on the y axis, 52 00:05:11,340 --> 00:05:16,260 ‫we can see how it was recorded, which was the percentage of total waste. 53 00:05:17,310 --> 00:05:21,460 ‫Now, we have a better idea what this bar graph is showing us. 54 00:05:21,660 --> 00:05:23,750 ‫Let's take a look at the question. 55 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:35,400 ‫The bar chart shows types of waste disposal in four cities in the year 2004 summarized the information 56 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:41,280 ‫by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. 57 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,450 ‫Let's take a look at another example question. 58 00:05:47,420 --> 00:05:54,320 ‫I'm sure you might be a little bit surprised, and that's because you can see there are two types of 59 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,890 ‫charts that are included in this question at the top. 60 00:05:58,910 --> 00:06:02,990 ‫We have a line chart and on the bottom we have a pie chart. 61 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:09,590 ‫Starting from the top, let's take a look at the key features of this information. 62 00:06:10,470 --> 00:06:15,290 ‫So the line chart, that title is typical daily demand for electricity. 63 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:24,260 ‫And we have two lines which give two different times of the year of winter and summer on the x axis. 64 00:06:24,270 --> 00:06:28,830 ‫We can see the different times of the day or the different hour of the day. 65 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:33,810 ‫And on the Y axis is our measurement in units of electricity. 66 00:06:34,770 --> 00:06:40,710 ‫Below the line chart is the pie chart, and this shows what the electricity is used for. 67 00:06:41,370 --> 00:06:46,350 ‫To the right we have our key, which shows us what information is being recorded. 68 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,050 ‫And on the left is our pie chart showing the amount. 69 00:06:53,450 --> 00:06:59,360 ‫The line graph shows the demand for electricity on a typical day in summer and winter. 70 00:07:00,260 --> 00:07:03,860 ‫The pie chart shows how electricity is used. 71 00:07:04,830 --> 00:07:12,310 ‫Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. 72 00:07:13,170 --> 00:07:20,340 ‫That's all for the example questions, as I just really wanted you to quickly have a look and gain some 73 00:07:20,340 --> 00:07:25,380 ‫idea of what the Eilts writing task one questions might look like. 74 00:07:25,530 --> 00:07:32,580 ‫And as you can see, there is sometimes more than one chart or piece of visual information given to 75 00:07:32,580 --> 00:07:36,090 ‫you in the question to test your knowledge. 76 00:07:36,100 --> 00:07:37,860 ‫Let's have a quick quiz. 77 00:07:39,090 --> 00:07:46,710 ‫Hey, you need to match the text with the correct question, whether it's A, B or C, let's see the 78 00:07:46,710 --> 00:07:47,610 ‫first text. 79 00:07:49,010 --> 00:07:57,530 ‫The graph below shows the average food consumption in China between 1985 to 2010. 80 00:07:58,250 --> 00:08:00,380 ‫So what is your answer? 81 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,320 ‫Is it A, B or C? 82 00:08:10,970 --> 00:08:11,700 ‫That's correct. 83 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:18,200 ‫The answer is actually the line graph, which is saying, let's take a look at one more question. 84 00:08:19,630 --> 00:08:30,280 ‫The chart below shows the average spend on fast food in 1990 is the answer A, B or C? 85 00:08:39,250 --> 00:08:43,180 ‫Well, Tony, if you got that right, the answer was, in fact, based. 86 00:08:45,550 --> 00:08:53,920 ‫This brings us to the end of our first lesson on Aout writing task one, we've taken a look at the six 87 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,460 ‫different kinds of visual information that you could be showing. 88 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,000 ‫And we've also looked at some example questions. 89 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:07,390 ‫If you think that you need to go back and relearn any of the information taught in this lesson, then 90 00:09:07,390 --> 00:09:09,520 ‫please do so in. 91 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:15,430 ‫The next lesson will be looking at how the examiner scores us in writing task one.