hello my name’s Liz and in this lesson I’m going to give you all the essential tips and techniques that you need to know to be successful with bar charts for IELTS writing task 1 we’re going to look at each paragraph and I’m going to show you what information you need to put in each clause and how to write it this is the bar chart we’re going to use for this lesson so let’s have a look the chart shows the expenditure of two countries on consumer goods in 2010 IELTS will always give you a description of the chart and this is key information that you need to read to understand the significance of your bar chart now when we look at the bar chart we can see that down the vertical axis here so at the side we’ve got all the different extents of money that both countries expend along the bottom so that’s the horizontal axis we’ve got all the different types of consumer goods so we’ve got five different types of consumer goods we have cars computers records smells and cameras and if we appear further we can see that the two countries we’ve got one in blue-blooded and one in red we’ve got France and the UK so that is a bar chart for this lesson let’s have a look at our clauses the first section that you will need to write is your introduction then you will have something called an overview after that you’ve got two body clauses for the preface we need to paraphrase this statement now so the information that IELTS give you we need to write it again in our own terms for the foreword let me show you how to do that now and here is our introduction so let me show you how I wrote it is currently the first two names of the following chart you can see it’s the same I have not changed those words and I don’t recommend that you should a show is a chart a diagram is a graph a table is a table you do not need to paraphrase every word because not all statements can be rephrased successfully in English so it is normal for a band tally 9 to have some words the same so we’ve got the first two words we’re going to keep them then we will take a look at the verb they say demonstrates we can use instances you could also say gives information about they say the expenditure and I say the amount of money wasted that’s a very nice paraphrase they say that it is the expenditure of consumer goods so what I’ve done is I’ve restrained that term that’s the compensate term it’s an academic oath I don’t want to change it but I do add the numeral it’s time to introduce the categories remember this is your introduction you want to introduce the information so the amount of money spent on five consumer goods and now you can see that I have given the list now it’s very good to give a roster of the two categories but only if it’s not too long so here we’ve got five if it is over eight perhap you don’t want to do that and you only give the number but here I’ve given the schedule and I have consumed brackets and brackets are very useful in academic writing task 1 so that you can introduced data or intelligence in them perfectly normal to use so we’ve got the list and then I say in France and the UK they say in two countries but again this is the introduction and I want to introduce these two countries so always try to give the appoints if you can in the UK and France in 2010 and of course the date very important because we must pay attention to the year to know the tents that we will use for writing this task 1 is there anything missing yes “youre seeing” down the two sides now that we’ve got some added datum so of course we want to paraphrase the information given by IELTS but we also want to look at the chart to see if there is any other information that we want to introduce and of course here we’ve got that all money is measured in pounds sterling so we need to write that in our introduction and we can write groups are measured in pounds sterling and this is a very useful sentence to use because of course that is a passive tense which is very nice for the examiner so if you have interesting parts for example pound sterling or a different currency then please kept the measured for your gangs in your prologue so that aims the prologue is sometimes one convict sometimes two decisions not longer it’s the easiest paragraph to write in IELTS writing task 1 you should not make any mistakes with this so please make sure you practice that now let’s move on and we’ll have a look at the synopsi the synopsi is the most important paragraph in your IELTS writing task 1 this is the paragraph where you will collect all the key features and gave them together an overview statement the examiner is looking for the overview if you have no overview you will not get above vanskor five for task achievement that’s 25% of your symbols if you have an overview that’s one score six if you have a clear overview that’s circles cross seven so your parties destination will go up depending on this overview so very important now before I indicate you how to write your overview let’s have a look at what the key features are if you look at the chart you will see that in crimson is the UK and in off-color is France and of course key features are all about the high points and the low-spirited extents of your graph so if we look here for the wine one that’s UK we can see that most of the spending was on vehicles and also for France the blue one that’s the same so both France and the UK spent most of their money on gondolas but if we look at the other end so the lower tops for England the least amount of money was spent on perfume and for France it was cameras so those are key features is that any other key aspect we are able to have yes and of course what you need to look at is very simple can you examine more red or more blue so which country depleted more coin in total on the consumer goods and you can see that plainly there is more red so the UK spent more coin than France so let’s write the overview and now we’ve got the overview so let’s have a look we start with the word overall because we want to show the reader to show the examiner that this is our overview this is a good technique to use because it represents the examiner can easily find the synopsi and that helped us get a better circle orchestrate so overall the expenditure of the UK was higher than that of France so this is our first key boast overall so taking the whole chart together which one was higher and you can see we’re employ a comparative outline often typically have comparatives now we look at the next persona this is quite a long sentence and it’s connected with two linkers you’re at Weill and is comparable to so let’s have a look we’ve got both the French and the British so here i’ve deepened it instead of imparting the name of the country I’m exerting the nationality both the French and the British spent the most money on automobiles and here we’ve got a superlative so the highest the most while in the UK the least again this is a superlative the least amount of money was spent on perfume compared to cameras in France so in total in this overview we’ve got three key features we’ve got which one was higher than the other overall and we’ve got the most money consume and the least money invested three key features how many do you usually have well it’s very rare to have only one I think that’s almost impossible you are usually looking at two three or four key features rarely five it depends on all the information in your planned or your table for example right so that’s the synopsi now let’s have a look at the body paragraphs this is one way to organize the body paragraphs now let me give you a rule firstly you must divide the body sections you cannot have one body paragraph you are being tested on their own organizations and you use of paragraphs so that’s 25% of your distinguishes so if you have only one organization section it’s going to be hard to get a good result for coherence and cohesion so I’m going to show you two different ways to organize the body paragraphs the most important thing is that it’s logical so this is one possibility in body section a we can have information about vehicles perfume and cameras and that is because we highlighted them as the highest and the lowest so that would be a very easy logical route to organize your writing and of course torso clause B ought to have been the other two categories so computer hardware and notebooks let me show you another way to organize it and here is the alternative the other way to organize your organization sections you can see I’ve got cars volumes and cameras together let’s have a look why well cars you can see that the UK was higher than France the next one books that’s the same the UK spent more coin than France on journals and cameras you can see the same you can see a significant difference between the spending and for person section B we have the reverse so you can see that computers France spent more than England UK and perfume you can see again that France expend more than the UK on incense so that is the other way to organize it which one is better they are both very good they will both give you a bash value nine for establishment the most important thing is that it’s logical and easy to be used for the reader now let’s just have a quick look at how to write the body paragraph here “were having” two sample sentences for the category of cars and bibles so let’s have a look you can see that we start off with a linker in terms of cars this is very nice because the reader immediately knows which list we’re talking about in terms of cars the UK spent around four hundred and fifty thousand pounds so when you’re writing your form paragraphs you need to take a look at the diagram at the chart and you need to have a look this is the cars and here we’ve got the UK and you can see that it is between 400,000 and 500,000 we cannot write it was 450,000 because we cannot see precisely but we can see that it was around 400 or 50,000 pounds so they spent around 450 thousand pounds on this that makes automobiles as opposed to this is a very nice linker to connect the information about France and England as opposed to exactly four hundred thousand pounds in France and you can see here we’ve got four hundred thousand pounds then we move on to bibles that’s this one here and it says that the expenditure on books in the UK was higher than in France so we’ve got another comparative when you have a comparative like that you still need to give the numbers the data you cannot miss the data if your sentence is in the body paragraph are not supported by data you will get about basgier 5 for task achievement so that’s another question so delight shunned that and ever reinforce your convicts with the numbers so you can see in this sentence what I’ve done is I’ve decided to positioned the numbers in brackets so that’s an another bracket decision and you can I’ve got about 400,000 and about 300,000 pounds respectively now respectively means that the order of the numbers follows the say in the decision UK is first that multitude refers to the first one the second number refers to the second one so make sure you’ve got you the order of information right and also if you decide to use this method and have a sentence using respectively please don’t thrown a long list of numbers because it becomes very difficult for the examiner to check he has to go through each list and check that everything is correct he will check every digit that you write so those are two examples of complex convicts to describe the categories in the body paragraphs of course you have to write the others interesting thing I just wanted to noted and that’s here precisely here you can see that I have written a symbol for the pound sign I have not written pound sterling and that’s because I don’t want to keep echoing utterances all the time it is fine in IELTS writing task 1 to use badges you can use types for currencies and percentages and many other things so satisfy make sure that you use that and when the examiner is counting the number of words you’ve written he will take that as one word because it’s just a symbol with a number so that is the body sections if you would like to see the full simulate so a ensembles gone 9 portion of writing for this chart then I will give you a tie at the end of this video so you can have a look well that’s all for this lesson if you found it useful please press like if you have questions then situated them under the video or see my blog on my blog there are many answers to questions about writing task 1 as well as all the other skills and IELTS so please have a look I will see you again in another I answer task you
