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‫In this lesson, you will learn how to fully answer the question and score highly in the task achievement

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‫section of the band descriptors.

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‫Here are your lesson No.8.

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‫By the end of the lesson, you will have a better understanding of which key information and data to

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‫discuss in your answer, you will also understand how to create a very quick plan to help you write

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‫a well-structured and well developed answer.

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‫Again, please make sure you review the lesson no, it's at the end of this lesson, and if you have

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‫any questions, please use the Q&A feature of this course.

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‫Before we move on, let's review the six question typed in Eilts writing Task one.

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‫Try posing the video and see if you can name the six different types of visual information.

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‫And here are the names of the six question types.

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‫For the first five types of visual information that bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, tables and

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‫Macs, there are four key questions you must ask yourself to make sure you're describing the key information

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‫now for processes.

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‫It's a slightly different method of answering and selecting key information.

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‫I will also show you how to do that.

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‫To reach a Band seven score in writing Task one, you must ensure that you cover the requirements of

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‫the task and that is to summarize, report and describe the data and information that you are given.

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‫You also need to clearly present and highlight key features by asking yourself these four key questions.

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‫Coming up, you ensure that you mark off these two requirements and you can score higher marks.

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‫For all graphs, charts and maps, you must ask yourself and answer these four key questions.

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‫First, what is the key data show in graphs and charts, look to the axes in tables, look to columns

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‫and rows and on the maps, look for Keith or any other information given, then consider the key trends.

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‫Does the data increase or does it decrease?

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‫Then ask yourself, what are the big differences or similarities?

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‫Is there anything that remains the same or are there big gaps between data?

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‫Given differences and similarities are also very important for maps.

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‫And the last question is.

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‫Can I group the data into two groups?

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‫This makes a lot of sense when writing and being able to logically order your answer right.

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‫These four key questions down and we'll practice using them to help us plan some answers.

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‫Using our four key questions will look at previous Eilts writing task one visual information and analyze

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‫the data and select key information which we could describe.

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‫Beginning with this bar graph, what is the key data show you may remember I suggested thinking about

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‫titles X and Y axes or keys, and this bar graph has all for the graph shows as fiction book sales,

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‫which we can see from the title.

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‫And the key to the right of the graph shows what types of books were being sold.

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‫The X axis records this over five years.

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‫And on the Y axis, we can see the total amount of Grote earnings of each type of book.

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‫What trends can you see in this graph?

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‫Are there any increases or decreases which seem like a key feature?

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‫Romance novels, which is the green bar, increases steadily from 2008 to 2010.

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‫From 2007 to 2009, sci fi and fantasy novels decrease over this period.

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‫Another trend could be from 2006 to 2007.

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‫Mystery and romance novels both increased quite dramatically.

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‫It's important to note that you only select and describe the big trend and big differences and similarities.

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‫If there isn't anything interesting about the data, it's better to not describe it.

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‫So what about the differences and similarities in this graph?

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‫The biggest difference I can see is between romance novels and sci fi and fantasy.

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‫Romance novels have much higher gross earnings than sci fi and fantasy and therefore sell a lot more

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‫books.

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‫For a similarity, you might report young adult and classic novels.

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‫And between the years 2007 to 2009, their gross earnings were pretty much the same.

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‫And could we put this data into two groups?

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‫Well, it seems that we definitely could by using the key.

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‫It might be easiest and most logical to put mystery and romance novels together as they're the highest

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‫the lowest gross earners, which is young adults.

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‫Classics and sci fi and fantasy could make up your second group by putting the data into two groups.

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‫It will really help you structure and organize your answer.

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‫And I'll be showing you a lot more about this later in the course.

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‫Now will use our four key questions to analyze the data from a pie chart from a previous Eilts writing

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‫exam.

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‫First up, what is the key data we can see from the title that the pie chart shows the total school

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‫spending and budget over two different years.

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‫What trends can we see?

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‫Well, first, I can see that teachers salaries increased by 10 percent while other workers salaries

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‫decreased by six percent.

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‫I can also see the budget for resources rose by five percent, whereas furniture and equipment fell

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‫by 10 percent.

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‫What differences and similarities can you see between these two pie charts?

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‫Well, the first thing I notice is that salaries remain the highest percentage of total spending.

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‫Insurance remains round about the same, between two to three percent.

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‫And for our last key question, can I group the data into two groups?

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‫Well, this is quite easy for the visual information we have.

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‫It would make perfect sense to group between the two years of 1981 and 1991.

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‫And again, this will help you to structure your answer and have two paragraphs where you give lots

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‫of information.

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‫I'll tell you more about this later in the course.

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‫How about we take a look at using the four key questions to find and select key information formats,

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‫so what is the key data shown on these maps?

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‫Well, I can see that it's between two different time periods, 1995 and present.

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‫The other information shown is the key landmarks on each map, such as housing, farm, land, fishing,

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‫ports and shops.

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‫Now, for months, there aren't any trends for you to describe, so you can dismiss this question,

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‫but you must concentrate on differences and similarities.

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‫So what are the differences and similarities in these two maps?

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‫The first thing I notice is that the farmland and the Forest Park has been developed into a golf course

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‫and tennis courts.

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‫I can also see that housing has increased as the town has gotten bigger.

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‫In the 1995 map, the shops and fish market have become restaurants and apartments and where there was

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‫a fishing port in 1995 that is no longer there.

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‫In present day, the cafe and hotel have remained unchanged, although the hotel has built additional

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‫car parking space.

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‫How could you separate them into two groups of data?

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‫Well, there are lots of ways that you could do this, but I would probably split them up into the top

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‫and the bottom.

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‫That way I'd be describing housing, farmland, Forest Park golf and tennis courts together.

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‫And then the next group would be everything underneath that.

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‫But whatever way you can logically do it, it's completely fine and up to you.

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‫So we've looked at charts and graphs and maps, but what about processes, how can you analyze the data

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‫shown there?

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‫Let's take a look now.

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‫The way that we analyze data in a process diagram is very different to that of maps, graphs and charts.

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‫That's because the main focus here is to describe stages.

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‫The stages of the process diagram are our main interest, and this is what you will analyze and identify

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‫as your key features.

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‫From looking at the process diagram above, we can see that there are eight stages in this process.

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‫The beginning is with the cows eating grass and the end result or product is milk, cheese, cream and

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‫butter.

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‫In your writing, you want to describe in more detail what each stage does, and it's also important

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‫to try and break up the process diagram into two groups from looking at the process diagram of dairy

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‫product production.

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‫I would simply split the groups into the first four stages and the second four stages, and that will

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‫help me to organize my writing and structure my answer.

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‫We've now looked at how to analyze and identify key information for all six question types, but even

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‫before we start writing next, we need to think about making a quick plan.

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‫So let's discuss that now.

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‫There are some teachers who suggest not to make a plan due to the 20 minute suggested time limit.

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‫However, I think if you can create a good plan in one minute, it will help you score higher marks

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‫in writing task one.

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‫So how can we create a quick, useful plan?

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‫I'll demonstrate with a previous Eilts writing task one question.

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‫The graph below compares the number of visits of two new music websites online.

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‫Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

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‫The plan I'm going to show you now contains only three parts and can quickly be made in under one minute.

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‫Have a look at this.

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‫At first, you might be a little bit confused, but I guarantee this method of planning will be quick

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‫and also help you write a well-rounded, higher scoring answer.

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‫So let me explain what each part means.

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‫G1 and G2 means Group one and Group two.

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‫In the next lesson, I'll show you the exact structure you need to write your alts writing task.

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‫One answer and having these two groups is very important.

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‫So my first group one is from day one to seven and that will be one detailed paragraph.

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‫My next group is from day eight to 15 and that will make another detailed paragraph.

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‫I'll be teaching you how to write a short overview paragraph also in the next lesson, but to help plan

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‫for that here in my overview plan, M equals music choice and P equals pop parade.

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‫I want to briefly describe in my overview what the main trends are without giving specific data and

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‫figures.

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‫So for music choice, we can see that it starts low and begins to rise around week 11.

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‫It remains relatively high with a slight dip in the final day.

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‫Pot parade starts quite high and dips around week seven, where it then rises again and then finishes

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‫at a high level.

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‫This quick plan will ultimately save you time by organizing your ideas and giving you some extra structure

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‫for when you begin writing your answer.

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‫Here is another I writing task.

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‫One question, and I want you to use the Q&A feature to show me a plan for this question.

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‫You can pause the video and start making your plan, and here are your lesson notes, please make sure

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‫you review them and if you feel confident, move on.

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‫If not, go back through this lesson and take some more notes.

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‫You could also drop me a message if you have any questions.

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‫See you in the next lesson.