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Friday, 30 March 2018
Thursday, 29 March 2018
IELTS WRITING TASK 1(ACADEMIC) :- The chart below shows the number of men and women in further education in Britain in three periods and whether they were studying fulltime or part-time.
ANSWER:-
The tables unveil the count of men and women in further education in three academic years in Britain.
Males were more interested in part-time and full-time education in the academic year 1970. Respective numbers were nearly 100 and 1000. Increasing trend in part-time studies was observed but in other type of education count slightly fluctuated. Still, part-time educates were approximately five times less than the other which had 900 learners in 1990/91.
Probing to second gender, here in both types of education systems hike was seen but like their counterpart less women chose part-time education. In 1970/1971, part-time pupils were almost negligible in comparison to 700 full-time students. After following increasing trend, count ended at 1100 for full-time education and 100 for other in the year 1990/91.
Overall, more women were getting educated in contrast to their opposite sex.
Tense:- Past
Vocab:- Men:-Males
Women:- Females
Observed:-Witnessed, seen, happened
Gender:- sex
Count:- Number
Respective:- Corresponding, in same sequence, severally
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
IELTS WRITING TASK1(ACADEMIC) The diagrams below show the life cycle of the silkworm and the stages in the production of silk cloth.
Answer
The life stages of silkworm are depicted in the first diagram while, the procedure of making silk cloth is shown in other diagram.
It is pellucid that in the four phases of silkworm's life cycle, it underwent dramatic changes. Starting from an egg which is laid on the mulberry leaf by the moth. This leaf becomes the food of larvae this is hatched from the eggs after approximately ten days. In the following four to six weeks, silk thread is woven by larvae around its body and it encloses itself completely in cocoon in next three to eight days. Moth comes out of cocoon after a span of 16 days and this cycle continues.
Proceeding to production of silk cloth. This begins with the selection of desired silk cocoon which is boiled in the water in order to unwind it to make a thread of 300-900 m long. After that, these threads are twisted together as one strand to strengthen the thread and dyed in the fourth stage followed by weaving stage, where the silk cloth is finally produced and dyed again.
Overall, the life cycle is a natural process containing four stages while, silk production is man-made process having six stages.
Tense:- Present
Process can be written in Present passive
Vocab: - Depicts-shows,illustrates
Lucid-Pellucid,clear
Starting-Beginning
Procedure-Process
IELTS WRITING TASK 1(ACADEMIC) :-The Table shows the percentage of pupils who entered higher education from five secondary schools between 1995 and 2000 inclusive.
ANSWER
The tabular chart illustrates the percentage of secondary school learners who chose higher education from 1995 to 2000.
The noticeable growth in educates proportion was seen in Harble Secondary which was 30 in 1995 increased by ten in 1997 and finally became double of latter year ,that is, 80. While, a drop of 20% happened in Greystone High which was leading school in 1995 with 90%.Throughout the given years, proportion in Cracked Boys fluctuated between 59 and 62.
Roystone Academy recorded 50% admissions of pupils in the first year and this surged in next years, remained same in 1997 and 1998 at 54% followed the same trend in 1999 and 2000 at 60%. Nextly, in 1995, learners from Fairfield Girls who opted higher secondary were 65%. In upcoming two years, a constant increase of five percent was seen. Before ending at 79% in 2000, it dropped to 70% in 1999.
Overall, it is concluded that admissions from four out of five schools surged and exception was seen in Greystone High.
Tense:- Past
vocab:- Learners- Pupils, students, educates
Table- Tabular Chart
Percentage- Proportion
In the following year- in next, upcoming, a year after
Increase- Surge, hike
Decrease-Drop, dip, dive,plunge,plummet
Monday, 12 March 2018
IELTS Writing Task 1 :- Tips(Academic)
Task one for academic students helps to check their logical ability. Students are given a pictorial representation and they have to write report on it.It should be based on given information. Student should not assume something and write.
Word limit :- No upper limit but student has to write 150 words. so it is preferable that student writes more than 150 words.
TYPES: Graphs:- Line graph, bar graph, pie chart, table
Process:- recipes, manufacturing
Time period variations:- one year = 12months
Word limit :- No upper limit but student has to write 150 words. so it is preferable that student writes more than 150 words.
TYPES: Graphs:- Line graph, bar graph, pie chart, table
Bar graph
Line graph
Pie chart
Table
Life Cycles:- Life cycle of insect, animal bird or any other creature.
Life Cycle and process
Process:- recipes, manufacturing
Development: development of place, animal, thing or any other creature.
Development of horse
Tense:- it depends on the time period given in the illustration.
If past years are given then student has to write in past tense.(Like data of years 1990,2000,2017).Future years are given then write report in future tense(like data of years 2019,2050)Time period is not given, write in present.
Variation: Variation is most important in ielts writing. Ways of achieving this:
Change Sentence Structure:- Active to passive
Passive to active
Write year first, value first, object first, subject first
Time period variations:- one year = 12months
half year = 6 months
Value variations:- 75% = three quarters
25% = a quarter
30% = nearly a third
10% = one on ten
Sunday, 11 March 2018
Ielts Writing task 1 The graph and table below show the number of fishers in millions for different regions in 1980, 1990, and 2000, and the world's top exporters of fish in 2000.
The horizontal bar graph reveals the count of fishermen in three years in fie continents and the table depicts the top ten fish exporters in the globe in the year 2000.
It is clear that there was no competition of Asia in the terms of fishers as it had nine million, thirteen million and 24 million fishers in the years 1970, 1980 and 2000 respectively. Probing to others figures, Africa had 1.2 million in the year 1970 this surged to two million in next ten years and was stagnant for the year 2000. South America, on the other hand had same number of fishers in three years ,that is, 1.2 millions. The fishermen owned by North America was 0.5 million in 1970. A surge was witnessed in 1980 to 1.2 million, this unchanged till 2000.
In Europe, fishers fluctuated between 0.2 million and 0.1 million. Turning to table, it is clear that Thailand ruled the word of fish exporting whereas, South Korea was at the last place of the league. Norway and USA bagged second and third position severally. The fifth position was occupied by Denmark which was behind China and was followed by Canada. Japan bagged seventh while eight and nine place was of Russia and Indonesia.
Overall, Asia had more fishes than rest of the regions and Thailand was top exporter.
Saturday, 10 March 2018
IELTS Writing Task 1 Academic:- The diagram below shows the typical stages of consumer goods manufacturing, including the process by which information is fed back to earlier stages to enable adjustment.
The diagram below shows the typical stages of consumer goods manufacturing, including the process by which information is fed back to earlier stages to enable adjustment.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the process shown.
The diagram depicts the steps involved in the manufacturing of customer products along with the feedback that helps to make changes in the previous stages.
The process begins with the collection of manufacturing components and raw material in the storage.While, in another process, research on product helps to design it and this is sent to production planning which becomes the second step in manufacturing process. Production planning sends feedback to the storage. Planning is followed by assembly, inspection and testing of goods. While, testing sends feedback to the design which also gets feedback from sales ,that is, last step in the procedure conducted after the packaging and despatching of the customer products.
The feedback collected from the sales of the goods is forwarded to the production planning and market research. Likewise, changes in the advertising and packaging, depends upon the market research. The design is also modified after getting reviews from the same.
Overall, it is concluded that role of feedback is crucial in the systematic manufacturing process as it helps to bring changes for its betterment.
Vocab:- Customer:- Consumer, user
Manufacturing:- Production
Previous:- Earlier
Alteration:- Changes, Modification
Friday, 9 March 2018
IELTS WRITING TASK 2 AIR TRAVEL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A LOT OF POLLUTION IN OUR ENVIRONEMENT.SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT PRICES OF AEROPLANE TICKETS SHOULD BE INCREASED IN ORDER TO REDUCE AIR TRAFFIC?
IELTS Writing Task 2 essay
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Write about the following topic
Air traffic is increasingly leading to more noise, pollution, and airport construction. One reason for this is the growth in low-cost passenger flights, often to holiday destinations. Some people say that government should try to reduce air traffic by taxing it more heavily. Do you agree or disagree?
Advancement in technology has gifted mankind different modes of travelling. Air transportation is one of these transport which is gaining popularity as companies are giving discounts to increase their profits but this in turns is giving birth to other problem. To curb these problems, imposing heavy tax on air ticket is a suggested solution which for me is not an apt solution.
To bolster my view, I would like to say that increased tax will no doubt decrease demand but it will directly affect the income of people who work as guide for tourist. Affordable tickets will help to attract people to particular place and this will help in development of a region. As money earned through tourism will be useful to construct other needed building like schools, colleges, suvidha centers etcetera. This is only way of travelling that takes less time of a wayfarer. Exampli gratia, train takes six hours to cover distance between Amritsar and Delhi but for the same distance plane only takes one and half hour. In this way, it is helpful in the time of emergencies.
Further strengthening my views, this is very useful for the businessmen as they have to travel frequently for their business and to grab deals. So increased tax will be an additional burden on them as they cannot avoid tours. This demonstrates that this is not the ultimate solution proposed by citizens. Moreover, in the era of inflation people are already paying many taxes to government like house tax, income tax so one more tax will hike their problems as this will make import and export expensive which in turn surge prices of basic things eventually disturb their house budgets. Lastly, low tickets give chance to individuals of all income to enjoy life by taking a break from their monotonous life.
At the tip of iceberg, imposing high penalty tax on air tickets is not an ultimate solution for the reduction in pollution, it will lead to use of other alternatives as travelling is pivotal part of individuals' life. Instead of doing this, government should spend money on improving the techniques used in air crafts that helps to minimize pollution.
VOCAB: Etc:- Etcetera
For eg:- Exampli gratia
Increase:- High, rise, surge
People:- folks, masses
Individual:-Person
Impose:-levy,charge,implement
Ielts Writing task 1(Academic) :- The charts below shows the distribution of the world's water and the use of water in three countries.
Answer:-
The pie charts show the distribution of global water and the bar graph depicts the percentage consumption of water in three countries in three distinct fields.
The first pie chart makes it clear that 97% of world water is salty and proportion of fresh water is only three. Most of fresh water is present in the glaciers and in the form of ice(97%). Fourth part of water is beneath the ground and just a percent is on the surface.
Probing further to the vertical bar graph, here, similar trend in water usage for irrigation purposes is seen in Egypt and Saudi Arabia as both use near to three quarter water in their fields. While, Canada utilized only ten percent. Percentage of water used for household works was approximately eleven percent in all regions. A significant difference is witnessed in industrial field. Canada lead in this, by using 80% water and corresponding percentage for Egypt and Saudi Arabia is eight and ten.
Thus, salt water is present more than fresh which is less at surface and more in glaciers. After analyzing water usage, it becomes clear that Egypt and Saudi Arabia are agriculture based economies and the last one is industrial based nation.
Tense:- Present
Vocab:- Nations- Countries
Different:- Distinct
Consumption:- Utilization, Usage, use
Domestic:- household
Work:- Chores
Below:- Beneath, Under
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
IELTS Writing Task 2 Unemployment is increasing at a fast pace. What are the advantages and disadvantages of reducing number of working hours to 35 hours per week?
Unemployment is a situation when people despite their experience do not get job and this is burning issue of all the nations. In ancient times, people had jobs to fulfill their desires but conversely in this era, burst in population is dipping vacancies. In order to get ride of this problem, many folks believe that reduction in working hours of current employees is a solution which for me has many advantages rather than its disadvantages.
Firstly, putting light on the brighter side of decreasing timing, employment will hike as to complete work employers will need to recruit workers which ultimately benefit the people who are in search of job. Along with this, sharing of work, reduces stress of workers. When the workers get back to work, they will work with more interest and concentration which will help to increase productivity of a company and directly or indirectly good for employer as well as for employees.
Further, continuing with same, wage earner will get a chance to spend time with his near and dear ones which refills him with energy to give best at work. By spending time with family, their bond strengthens and parents can keep an eagle's eye on their children's ventures. One more advantage of this is that in leisure time, one indulges himself in hobbies and other health related activities which makes their body fit and helps to keep their mind alert. As all work and no play makes jack a dull boy likewise working for longer hours makes a person's life monotonous so free time fill them with zeal and enthusiasm. Above all, a single mind is a creative factory so when many are working together many ideas sprout in minds and this leads to company profit and take company to a new heights.
At the tip of iceberg, employment helps to live happy life by fulfilling aspirations and desires. Moreover, it is almost imperative to give platform to everyone to show their talent. To give opportunity to everyone to work reducing timing of current hired persons is the best solution for employed, unemployed and employers.
Vocab: People:- folks, individuals,persons, mass
Parent:- Mother father, guardians, birth-givers
Children-kids, offspring
Hobbies:-past time activities, leisure time activities, free time activities
Monotonous:- Boring
Reduce:- decrease,minimize
Employees:- Workers
Saturday, 3 March 2018
IELTS WRITING TASK 2:- Everyone should stay in school until the age of 18 eighteen. To what extent do you agree or disagree
Everyone should stay in school until the age of 18 eighteen. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Answer:-
Education is a weapon that has power to change the thinking of a person. Education starts from the birth of a child and remains with him till his death. Every child learns basic education from school which is like second home after his own house as in school strong foundation of learning is laid. Owing to its too much importance, citizens and I believe that one should learn in school until 18 years old.
To commence with the first and foremost point, school is a place where an educate first learns discipline which is learnt by following strict timing and helpful to handle all the other chaos of life. Moreover, by sharing and communicating with learners of different caste and creed, this inculcates the feeling of brotherhood. In school, pupils not only learn about various subjects but with this, they also participate in co-curricular activities which make them physically as well as mentally fit. In addition to this, competition also helps to teach that winning is not ultimate goal, competition teaches participation also matters and failures and repeated attempts are key to success.
Further reinforcing, basic didactic helps to get job to secure future as earning bread and butter is utmost imperative to lie life. Scholars in school set their aims of life according to their interest and with the help of educators. With an aim, scholars work hard to achieve success in life. Aim and right direction keeps their mind in right direction which helps them to stay away from bad habits. Last but not the least, school study and competition are helpful in the overall development of pupils so when they get graduated from school they become mature to deal with world simply a caterpillar becomes butterfly in school.
At the tip of iceberg, education in institutes plays an indispensable role in learner's life so due to all highlighted benefits students should study in school.
Vocab:- Students- Learner, pupils, educate,scholar, tutee
School:-Institute
Studies:-Didactic
Overall developments:- Holistic development, physical and mental development
IELTS Writing Task 1:-- The Map showing the number of Afghan refugees received by neighbouring countries during the US led attacks on Afghanistan in October/November 2001.
Answer:-
The map demonstrates the count of refugees welcomed by nearby countries when Unites States attacked on Afghanistan in 2001. The source of information is given by UNHCR dated 13th November.
It is evident from the map that a huge number of war stricken people settled in Pakistan which was in South-East direction. To give shelter/accommodation to approximately two million individuals Pakistan established three refugee camps, one Jalozai in North direction and other two namely Killi Faizo and Roghani in South direction of country near Afghan border.
It further reveals that nearby 1500 folks moved to Tajikistan in North-East side. Uzbekistan received 8800 people while, 1500 individuals migrated to Turkmenistan. Both the nations are in North side of Afghanistan. Lastly, 1.5 million refugees fled to Iran from war-torn country.
Overall, Pakistan received maximum entrants whereas, Turkmenistan got minimum.
Tense:- Past
Vocab:-
- People-folks,individuals
- Count-Number
- Established-set up,constructed
- Shelter-Accommodation
- Moved-drifted,fled, migrated
- Country-Nation
- War stricken- War torn
Friday, 2 March 2018
IELTS Writing Task 1:-- The diagram below shows the result of a survey of a sample of 1000 people on the different sources of noise which cause a nuisance. The severity of the nuisance is measured on the scale running from Not annoying to Extremely annoying.
Answer:-
The diagram depicts the outcomes of survey conducted on one thousand people to know about their rating for sources of noise.
It is clear that sources of noise were rated on a scale which was divided into five groups. There was nothing in not annoying category. Whilst, three sources namely piano, train and television were grouped in fairly disturbance category. In this group, nuisance created by television was more irritating than the other two.
It further reveals that only radio was kept in annoying group. Then, music system created more disturbance than aeroplane in very annoying category. Lastly, nuisance produced by ringing mobile phones, hand tools and dog barking was most problematic and fell under last category ,that is, extremely annoying.
Thus, it is therefore clear that barking of dogs generated maximum inconvenience whilst, minimum irritation was produced by pianos.
Vocab:-
Depicts- Reveals, shows, delineates
Outcomes-Results
Category-Group
Annoying - Disturbance, nuisance, irritation
Tense:- Past
IELTS Writing task 1, test 3, Cambridge: 1 : The chart below shows the amount of money per week spent on fast foods in Britain. The graph shows the trends in consumption of fast foods.
Answer:-
The vertical bar graph illustrates the money spent by three income groups on fast food in Britain. The line graph delineates the intake of fast food from 1970 to 1990.
It is clear from the graph that a person with high income spend 43 pence on hamburger. Whereas,for an average earner, it is between 35 pence and 30 pence and for low earner, it is 14 pence only. Expenditure on fish and chips is maximum by average income individual ,that is, 25 pence followed by high income and low income earner. Pizza is least preferred with below 225 pence expenditure by all.
The line graph reveals that fish and chips were most popular in 1970 with 300 grammes intake which dipped to 200 grammes in 1985 but slightly increased in last five years hitting 230 grammes in 1990. The consumption of hamburger and pizza followed increasing trend. Consumption of pizza hiked from 50 grammes to 290 grammes in the given time period. While, the significant surge was seen in hamburger from 20 grammes to 500 grammes in two decades.
Overall, high income spend more than other(rich spend more) and intake of hamburger and pizza increase in the given period.
Tense:- Bar graph- Present Task
Line graph- Past task
Vocab:- Reveals-shows, depicts
Individual-person
Consumption:-intake
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