Task 1 assesses your ability to analyze data objectively without giving an opinion, whereas Task 2 usually requires a subjective piece of writing on a fairly general topic. In addition, it is worth noting that the exam is not testing knowledge of English language, but rather competence in using English, In other words, it is not testing memory. Awareness of this might help reduce some of the problems that many candidates have in the IELTS exam. | ficademic Writing Practice fer IELTS CONTENTS Page Section 1 Writing practice for Task 1 1. Language for 2. Graph 3. Missing data. 18 4. Interpretation questionnaire. 20 5. Which month .22 6. Comparison - no 7. Looking at data with more complex 8. Label the 9. Following the 10. Building flexibility. . .30 11. Projection in the 12. Compare and 13. Pie 14. Language jigsaw. 37 15. Prediction choices. 39 16. Something wrong with the 17. Guided writing. 42 18. Describe the 19. A 20. Processing information. . .47 Sam McCarter tademic tllrltiog Mice fw IELTS Exercise 1 language for graphs This exercise focuses on some basic language which you need to describe graphs. Look at the graph below which shows the number of visitors to Tabard Towers Theme Park each month last year. Following the graph there are 15 statements about the data. Decide which sentences are true or false according to the diagram. More than one sentence may describe the same data. Note that the sentences are not in any particular order and that they do not form a full text. 14 Satn McCarter tafeafc Irltteg Pradke fcr HITS - - -W- .T j II H Lt M u. . . . i_ .n .W. . nw. LWMWTt HU-JI rt-J-ri CrtWmM WHIPM Irtw. MMI I L I I. I 11 1 6. During the first four months . visitor numbers rose gradually. The gradual rise in visitor numbers from 30 000 to approximately 45 000 in the first four 8 Between April and May the increase in the number of visitors was at a much slower pace than in tlie ipuS eehtonths 3 3 33K 0i 9. It is clear that for most of theyear monthlyattendances were above trend. 10. In July the number of visitors W i dehfe ihe ifo gusW 12 13 fojuly visitornumberssoaredandthensuddenlyfellbackagaifit ti st6a fo hain diWKnd teb OShdM 15 15 Sam .
