Skill: Writing

Topic: LINE GRAPHS

Lesson plan
Content Beginning Ending Activities
time time
Warm up 5 mins Warm up
Grammar & 40 mins Verb-Adverb Collocations
Vocabulary Complex Sentences with “before”
and “after”
Warm up 10 mins
Small activities
Explain 10 mins
How to do task 1
Writing task 1 50 mins Topic: Line graphs
Intro – Overview - Body
Review and 5 mins Sum up
Feedback
 General Information about IELTS Writing Task 1

Statements True or False?

You need to write a 200-word report on a graph, chart, table,
map or process.
You should spend 20 minutes writing the task.

Your writing is marked using 3 criteria:

•Task achievement
•Lexical Resource
•Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Task 1 is worth one-third of the total writing score.
 Grammar & Vocabulary
I. Verb-Adverb Collocations

1. Warm-up exercise – Translate the sentences below into English.

Vietnamese English
a. Jenny hát hay.

b. Tôi ngưỡng mộ Andy bởi vì anh ấy học giỏi.

c. Cậu nên đi chậm thôi kẻo ngã đấy!

d. Nền kinh tế đã phát triển nhanh chóng từ đầu năm

đến nay.
e. Trời đang mưa to ngoài kia.
 Vietnamese English

f. Đêm qua, nhiệt độ đột nhiên giảm xuống rất nhiều.

g. Giá của căn chung cư này đã tăng lên đáng kể trong

thời gian gần đây.
h. Anh ta đang ngồi lặng lẽ trong quán cà phê.

i. Người đàn ông mỉm cười lịch sự và rời đi.

j. Để em từ chối anh nhẹ nhàng thôi.

2. Structure
ADVEB VERB

VERB ADVERB

Forming an adverb Adverb = Adjective + ly

Examples Beautifully = beautiful + ly
Slowly = slow + ly
Rapidly = rapid + ly
Heavily = heavy + ly
Sharply = sharp + ly
Significantly = significant + ly
Quietly = quiet + ly
Politely = polite + ly
Nicely = nice + ly
II. Complex Sentences with “before” and “after”
1. Structure

S+V+O before/ after S+V+O

E.g.
I played football with my friends before we came back home.
She went after she left a message.
Before you make a decision, you should think carefully about it.
After I have a cup of coffee, I often feel really energized.
2. Practice

1. Make a sentence with “before/ after”

2. Find the difference in the meaning of sentences a & b and c & d.

a. I played football with Andy before getting back home.

b. Andy played football with me before getting back home.

c. After having a cup of coffee, he started talking with me.

d. After having a cup of coffee, I started talking with him.
 IELTS Writing Task 1 – Line graphs
I. Warm-up exercise – Describe the line graph below using the words given in the box.
Slightly Increase
Significantly Decrease
Sharply
Subject of The number of bicycles which was sold
description
January In January, the number of bicycles which was sold stood at 50.
Febuary In the next month, this number significantly decreased to 30.
March One month later,
May In May,
June At the end of the period,
 ADVERBS VERBS

sharply, dramatically, rapidly, steeply increase, rise, climb, grow

significantly, considerably, substantially decrease, reduce, drop, decline

slightly, gradually, steadily, slowly

1. In pairs, discuss possible
approaches to the task above.
2. Essay structure

a. Introduction: paraphrasing skills

The line graph shows the amount of waste that was produced by three companies from 2000 to 2015.

The line graph shows The amount of waste that was produced From 2000 to
by three companies 2015
b. Overview: selecting main features

Main feature 1 –
the highest figure
Main feature 2 –
trends
c. Body 1

The first point of

time (2000)
d. Body 2

Trends + the last

point of time
Homework