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Increased
Jumped
Rose
Flew
Grew
Went up
Climbed

Rocketed
(big
increase)

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Decreased
Fell
Dropped
Went down
Sank

Plummeted
(big decrease)

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Fluctuated (v)
a fluctuation (n)

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Peaked (verb)

Hit a peak
(noun)

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Bottomed out
Levelled out

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 The Grammar
Adjectives describe a noun. Adverbs describe a verb.
A funny man He ran quickly
A beautiful woman She wrote quietly.

In IELTS, it is good to use adjectives and adverbs to show

that you can use good grammar.

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Adjective + Noun Verb + adverb

a quick rise Rose quickly

a steady fall Fell steadily
a slow increase Increased slowly
a significant decrease Decreased significantly

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In IELTS, it is good to use adjectives and adverbs to show
that you can use good grammar.

The number of people rose. Then

the number of people fell. After, These are all verbs
the number increased.

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In IELTS, it is good to use adjectives and adverbs to show
that you can use good grammar.

Now we have some adj +

Firstly, the number of people rose
nouns and verbs +
sharply. Then there was a steady fall.
adverbs, to show good
After, the number increased slowly.
grammar.

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Look at the lines again. Can you make
an adjective and noun?

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 Remember….
• You don’t need to learn all the vocabulary for
IELTS line graphs.
• Just make sure you know 2 or 3 ways to
describe each different change in the line.

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 Model Answer

https://www.ielts-exam.net/academic_writing_samples_task_1/854/
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 What else is important?
• You should have about 4 paragraphs.
• You should use a range of vocabulary and
grammar.
• You should use connecting words- In addition,
Moreover, However etc
• You need an overview of the main ideas
• You need to make comparisons

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 The Introduction Paragraph
Be very specific about what you can see. How many
years does the graph show? What is the information
about? Change the words from the question
(paraphrase), so you don’t lose points for repetition.

For example if the question says:

This chart shows > change to > The graph
illustrates/The graph gives information about

The amount of people who went shopping > change

to> The number of customers who… etc
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The summary

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 What people drink in Hue

Milk tea

Juice

Overall, milk tea was more popular than juice from 2005 to
present. Throughout the period, the trend for milk tea
rocketed upwards, whereas juice fell.

2005 2010 2015 Present

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 Overall
• Remember, to get overall trends you can look
at the first and last part of the line graph and
say that the overall trend is up or down.

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 Writing
Vocabulary for things that are different:

In contrast

Whereas

However

But

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Why do we need to compare in IELTS?

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Ways to compare- (1) – Linking Words
Vocabulary for things Vocabulary for things
that are different: that are the same

In contrast Both

Whereas Similarly

However In the same way

But
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 Ways to compare- (2) – The
information
Group information together.

Which lines are similar and which ones are

different?

If you see 2 lines which have a similar idea, put

them in the same paragraph and compare them.

Use words like ‘more than’, ‘the biggest’, ‘the

most dramatic increase’. These words compare
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 Give an Overview
• The main trends (try not to write specific data)
• Words you might want to use: Overall,
‘most/least’
• Look at the start and end to get an overall
idea of the trend. If it is lower at the start and
higher at the end, the overall trend is
upwards.
Overall, the consumption of fish and chips declined over the
period, whereas the amount of pizza and hamburgers that were
eaten dramatically increased.

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In 1975, the most popular fast food with Australian teenagers was
fish and chips, eaten 100 times a year. This was far higher than pizza
and hamburgers, which were consumed approximately 5 times a
What can we group together?
year. However, apart from a brief rise again from 1980 to 1985, the
consumption of fish and chips gradually declined over the 25 years
to finish at just under 40.
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In contrast to this, teenagers ate the other two fast foods at much higher
levels with a similar trend. Pizza consumption increased gradually until it
overtook the consumption of fish and chips in 1990. It then levelled off from
1995 to 2000. The biggest rise was seen in hamburgers as the times they were
eaten increased sharply throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s, exceeding that of
fish and chips in 1985. It finished at a similar level that fish and chips began
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