IELTS Writing Test IELTS Writing Test IELTS Writing Test

IELTS Writing Test

1. IELTS WRITING
TEST 1
A CLass

2. Writing Test 1

3. Writing Test 1

4. Writing Test 1

5. Writing Test 1

8. Introduction

11. Bar Chart

12. Description

13. Bar chart vocabulary

14. Sample

16. Sample answer

17. Pie Chart

18. Sample Answer

20. Task Achievement
The examiner will check your information, overview, detail & accuracy.

21. Coherence & Cohesion
Your organization of information, your paragraphing & your use of linking device
will be marked.

22. Lexical resource
Your use of vocabulary, your spelling and the number of mistakes will
effect your scores.

23. Grammatical Range & Accuracy
Mark for your sentence,structure,tenses, control of grammar and the
number of mistakes.

24. Describing diagram
◦ANALYSE THE QUESTION
◦First of all, as with any IELTS writing question, you must take a few minutes to analyse the question before you begin
writing.
◦IDENTIFY THE STAGES
◦When you are analysing the diagram, it is important to break it into different stages and put them in the correct order.
Sometimes this is very easy… but sometimes it can be a little difficult. 
◦FINDING THE RIGHT VOCABULARY
◦Many students panic when they see a process diagram because they think that there will be some complicated
vocabulary that is needed. For example, there are sometimes diagrams about complex industrial or ecological
processes… Can you imagine how difficult those would be to describe?!?!
◦Well, actually they are not that difficult. In fact, process diagrams usually contain most of the vocabulary that you need
to describe them within the diagram. You just need to make some small alterations to the grammar.
◦In order to avoid repetition, you might want to think of synonyms of these words:

Generate Flow
Make Move
Produce Pump

25. PASSIVE VOICE
◦While the passive voice is not very common in English, it is extremely common when people describe process diagrams for IELTS. This is because the
passive voice is used when we don’t know who or what is doing an action, or don’t need to say. It is also useful when we put emphasis on the object
of an action. For all those reasons, we really need it for this sort of task.
◦For example, rather than saying “______ generates electricity,” we can instead say, “Electricity is generated.” This is useful because we don’t know who
is operating the power station, and we are not allowed to guess at this sort of thing in IELTS. If we wanted to include the fact that the process results
in the generation of electricity, we could say it in one of two ways:
1.The flow of water through a dam generates electricity.
2.Electricity is generated by the flow of water through a dam.
◦The second one is passive voice, and it puts emphasis on the result, which can be more useful, especially if we are focusing on this in the introduction
to our essay.
◦Here is another example:
1.A dam holds water back from its natural course.
2.The water is held back from its natural course by a dam.
◦Again, the second example is passive and puts emphasis on the water, which may be more important in that context. It also adds a degree of
formality, as passive structures are a feature of formal writing.
◦Sometimes we can mix active and passive voice to give some diversity to our language:
•The water flows into a lower reservoir, but at night it is pumped back up through the system to the upper reservoir.
◦The first example is active and the second is passive. In the first example, the water is more important than the reservoir, and having an active
structure shows the relationship more clearly. Water —-> reservoir. In the second, we don’t need to say what is pumping the water, and we want the
water to be more important, so we use passive voice.

26. Process Diagram

28. Sample answer
◦The diagram depicts a hydroelectric power station,
and shows how electricity is generated by the flow
of water through a dam and other component
parts. Ultimately, water flows from one reservoir
to another, producing electricity that is sent to the
national grid.
◦Firstly, water enters a reservoir from a river. The
water is held back from its natural course by a
dam, underneath which there is an intake pipe
that is open during the day and closed at night.
During the daytime, water flows down, via gravity,
to the power station, which is housed below the
dam. In the power station, the flowing water spins
a generator, which produces an electrical current
that is then distributed via power lines to the
national grid.
◦Once the water has generated this electricity, it
flows into a lower reservoir, but at night it is
pumped back up through the system to the upper
reservoir, ready to begin the process again the
following day.

31. 3. Grammar & Vocabulary

33. Table