hi there it's asiya and today
i've prepared for you a full ielts
academic writing task 1 essay
and i'll explain you how you should
write it
this task has three pie charts which is
quite common in ielts today and if
after watching this lesson you feel like
you want to learn
all my technique and how to write each
type of task one essay
my online course will be linked in the
description box below
and now let's get started
here is our task the
charts below show the average
consumption of
three nutrients by adults in the uk
all of these nutrients may be unhealthy
if eaten too much summarize
the information by selecting and
reporting the
main features and make comparisons
where relevant write at least 150 words
and we have the title of our charts
daily consumption of sodium saturated
fat
and added sugar by adults in the uk
and we can see that the first chart
shows
sodium the second one is about saturated
fat
and the last one is about added sugar
and we can see how much of
each ingredient what proportion of each
ingredient
adults eat with their breakfast lunch
dinner and snacks so that's the
information we have
and please note that in the topic
in the second sentence they told us that
all of these nutrients
may be unhealthy if eaten too much
that means that we should analyze the
numbers
and decide which numbers are not high
and are likely to be healthy and which
are too high and are likely to be
unhealthy
when you write a task 1 report it's
really important
to only use the information you are
given because perhaps
you know that those ingredients those
nutrients
are healthy but you shouldn't mention it
unless it's given in the task like
in our case okay now let's talk about
the essay structure
in order to achieve at least a band 7
for your essay
you must logically organize it so let me
show you a typical task one structure
that you can use for any task one essay
you always start with an introduction
that's where you simply paraphrase the
task
it's by far the easiest and quickest way
to write it and you don't need to
include
anything else here your introduction
should be short
then an overview that's perhaps
the most important part of your task 1
report
that's where you provide this general
summary of the main trends you describe
the
broad picture and the overview
should be one two maybe three sentences
long
really not that much and quite often
i don't include any numbers in figures
in the overview at
all or you may include a couple of the
most
important ones but really don't go into
detail
think how could i describe all that
in one sentence or two sentences
that's your overview
and you can write it in different places
it can go right after the introduction
and it can be in a separate paragraph or
it can actually be in the same paragraph
with the introduction
it's up to you you can also leave your
overview until the end
and write it after your body paragraphs
that's what i do quite often but there
is one danger
if you leave the overview until the end
and then you'll be running out of time
and you don't finish it that's a big
problem
because your task achievement score will
suffer a lot
if you're running out of time it's
better not to finish your body paragraph
than to skip your overview and in this
sense
it's simply safer to write it right
after your introduction
then we write body paragraphs
sometimes we have two we may have
three but you should have at least
two because you need to show to the
examiner
that you can logically organize
information and you're not gonna
just write all the information in the
same paragraph
okay two or three body paragraphs
and then that's the part that causes a
lot of confusion but
in task 1 you don't need a conclusion
a conclusion is what we write in task 2
where we summarize our ideas
and give our opinion if their asks for
it
but in task 1 we never give our opinion
and we don't really summarize our ideas
either right
we just summarize the information
we're given and that's what we call an
overview
so an overview replaces the conclusion
and sometimes because people write it at
the end
you may look at the essay and think or
there
is a conclusion and they're saying but
no you
don't need one trust me now let's have a
look at our essay
here is my introduction
the three pie charts give information
about the proportion of sodium saturated
fat
and added sugar in the typical news of
uk
adults excessive consumption of
any of those nutrients is considered to
negatively affect one's health in my
introduction i simply paraphrased the
task
and we could compare them the task says
the charts below and i said the three
pie
charts i simply added some words
show was replaced by give information
about or provide information
on the
average consumption of three nutrients
are replaced by
information about the proportion of
sodium saturated fat and added sugar
so i named those nutrients straight away
and then i added in the typical meals
that's something i've taken from the
charts
and the tasks said adults in the uk
and i said uk adults i simply
changed the order words but i repeated
words
the second sentence was all of these
nutrients may be
unhealthy if eaten too much
and i wrote excessive consumption of
any of those nutrients is considered to
negatively affect one's health as you
can see
the idea is the same and
yes you do need to paraphrase words you
shouldn't
copy phrases from the task
but it doesn't mean that you have to
replace every word
as you can see i've repeated many of
them
consumption nutrients
adults health and so on
and i will use those words a number of
times
throughout my report because these are
key words of our task and you don't need
to paraphrase them
if i wrote an overview after the
introduction
it would be here but mine is at the end
so let's talk about the body paragraphs
you need to
logically organize information in your
body paragraphs and you need to have at
least two
so what are the ways to split
information into body paragraphs
in our task i can see at least
two the first way is to simply describe
each chart in a separate body paragraph
the easier way then you would have three
body paragraphs
we could also concentrate on describing
each
meal breakfast and all the nutrients
consumed for breakfast lunch dinner
snacks but then we can't write four
body paragraphs right
then we need to group similar data
together
and i can see a way to do that if you
have a look at our charts
you can see that for breakfast and lunch
people don't eat too much of any of
those nutrients
the proportions are quite low
and i would say that those meals can be
considered healthy
but when eating dinner and snacks
people consume a lot of at least
one of those nutrients and that can be
considered
unhealthy and describing breakfast and
lunch
in one body paragraph and describing
dinner and snacks
in the other body paragraph is a more
advanced way to organize
the essay because it shows that you can
really analyze the information
but you can choose either of the ways
i'm going to choose the letter
and let's have a look at the first body
paragraph
the first two meals of the day breakfast
and lunch
appeared to be quite healthy with a
relatively
even distribution of nutrients
that's my topic sentence and i've
already told
what i've learned about those two meals
now i'm gonna go into more detail
a typical breakfast is the lightest meal
of the day
which contains between 13 and 16
of each nutrient
as you can see in the first part of the
sentence i make a claim
breakfast is the lightest meal of the
day
and then i provide some figures to
support it
it contains between 13 and 16 percent of
each nutrient
and it's important not to give too many
details
because i think it's not important to
know which
nutrient was 13 and which
was 16 there is no big difference there
and i simply give the range
next for lunch people consume
between 20 and 28 of the nutrients
with added sugar being the lowest and
sodium
the highest so here the range is a bit
wider
and i told which one is the lowest which
one is the highest
and we know that the third nutrient is
somewhere in the middle and again
it's not that important to know where
exactly it is
i omitted this number when you write
your task 1 report
it's important to make some statement
make a claim and then support it with
your numbers
if you give too many details it's
problematic
but if you don't give any numbers at all
it's not good either you need to strike
the right
balance in order to achieve a higher
score for my grammar
i am varying my sentence structures
if you have a look at the second and
third sentences
one is about breakfast the second one is
about
lunch but sentence structures are
different in the first one i said
a typical breakfast is and in the last
one
for lunch people consume you see
these are different structures and then
i added some extra information to both
of those sentences
but in a different way
in the sentence about breakfast i said
the lightest meal of the day which
contains
and then gave the numbers and in the
last one i said
with added sugar being the lowest
so again these are different sentence
structures
and even though my sentences are not
very long
my sentence structures are complex and
that what brings
a higher score in your task one and
actually in task two
two let's read
the second body paragraph on the other
hand
demand snacks appear to be less balanced
out of all the meals dinner contains
the largest proportions of sodium and
saturated fat
42 and 39 of daily
intake respectively however
when snacking people eat the most
added sugar 45 percent as well as
slightly more
sodium and saturated fat than for
breakfast
in the charts you get a lot of
information
and a lot of different figures and you
need to
choose the key features the most
important numbers
such as the highest numbers and that's
what i reported
in this body paragraph also
in your task 1 as well as your task 2
you need to use a number of
formal linking words and other linking
devices
such as on the other hand
out of all the means and however
let me show you my overview that's where
i give this
broad picture and explain what i've
learned in one or two sentences
overall the first two meals of the day
eaten by adults in the uk are relatively
balanced and healthy
whereas dinner contains the most sodium
and saturated fat
most of the added sugar is in snack
foods
are you surprised to see this last word
here
foods let me explain when we talk about
food in general
it's uncountable but when we mean
different kinds of it it's countable
foods the phrase
snack foods means different
kinds of snacks okay
when you write your overview give
general trends don't give numbers or
just
a couple of numbers and don't give any
details
and if sometimes you run out of time
before you finish
both answers write your overview
right after the introduction to be on
the safe side
speaking about conclusions you don't
need one
in task 1 academic we write an overview
instead of a conclusion this essay is
198
words long if you aim for band 7
i would say your essay should be between
170
and 180 words long in this case you can
finish it a little bit more quickly and
have more time to check it
hopefully and some people ask
if they lose points for longer essays
if it's a beautifully written essay
where everything is correct
no you don't lose any points you just
have more space to develop your ideas
but if a longer essay means that you
simply make
more mistakes than perhaps years
don't write an essay longer than you
really need to
i know that you may have questions that
we haven't touched only in this video
such as how to select the information
for your report
which numbers to include and which not
to include
which verb tenses to use in your essays
how to write essays on different types
of tasks
i've described all that in my online
course
fast track ielts academic task 1 and i'm
going to link it
in the description box below if you are
looking for more free materials
then feel free to download my task 2
workbook
in the pdf format and watch this other
video
with a sample answer for task 2.
thank you for watching me today good
luck with your preparation
and your exam bye
