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IELTS Writing Task 1 Vocabulary
IELTS Writing Task 1 Vocabulary
IELTS graphs
Vocabulary
IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 Vocabulary - words and phrases for IELTS graphs:
Line graphs, Bar charts, Tables, Pie charts.
Suitable for:
Line graphs
Bar charts
Tables
Pie charts
You don't need to memorize every single word. Choose the ones that you want to
use in your answers and those that you can remember naturally. This is all IELTS
Academic Writing Vocabulary.
Plummet
Plunge
Halve
Dip
Increase
Surge
Grow
Double
Triple
Rocket
Shoot up
Soar (=surge)
Recover
Reach a peak, Peak at …%
Fluctuate
Verb + adverb
Now we add adverbs to the verbs, ie "how?"
• Significantly
• Remarkably
• Dramatically
• Sharply
• Gradually
• Steadily
• Marginally (=slightly)
• Negligibly (=very slightly)
Decrease Considerably
Decline Slightly
Fall Gradually
Drop Steadily
Rise Sharply
Increase Dramatically
Adjective + noun
a dramatic increase
a sharp fall - There was a sharp rise in the percentage of …
a gradual decline
remained stable
reached a plateau
flattened out
despite falling to just under 40%, the figure then rose to…
as opposed to …
… respectively (Cookies and cakes were the second most popular products with
nearly 120 and 100 of these snacks sold respectively)
the percentage of …
the proportion of …
Prepositions
By 1978,
An Increase of 30%.
Decreased by 15%.
Approximately
Nearly
Roughly
Almost
Just over
Just under
Just around
Just about
Just below
A little more than
A little less than
For example:
Just under 60 percent of people in Canada went to fast food outlets in 2009. (we see
"58%" in the graph, we can round this fidure off by writing "just under 60%").
Comparisons
For example:
The number of intermediate students is three times higher than the number of students
in elementary classes, at 80 and 77 students respectively.
There were twice as many students in the …as students in the ...