IELTS Writing Course

Unit 1
• “ Chance favors the prepared mind.”
---Louis Pasteur
Course requirements

• Bring to every lesson: notebooks & textbooks

Course requirements

- Bring to every lesson: notebooks & textbooks

- Please keep your notes tidy & complete
Course requirements

- Bring to every lesson: notebooks & textbooks

- Please keep your notes tidy & complete
- Copy notes from a classmate if you miss a lesson
Course requirements

- Bring to every lesson: notebooks & textbooks

- Please keep your notes tidy & complete
- Copy notes from a classmate if you miss a lesson
- Monitors provide leave notes for absent students
Course requirements

- Bring to every lesson: notebooks & textbooks

- Please keep your notes tidy & complete
- Copy notes from a classmate if you miss a lesson
- Monitors provide leave notes for absent students
- Worksheets: short answers into your notebooks (do
not copy the questions)
Course requirements

- Bring to every lesson: notebooks & textbooks

- Please keep your notes tidy & complete
- Copy notes from a classmate if you miss a lesson
- Monitors provide leave notes for absent students
- Worksheets: short answers into your notebooks (do
not copy the questions)
- Mobile phones off in all lessons
Breakdown
• Attendance 5%
Breakdown
- Attendance 5%
- Classwork & participation 10%
Breakdown
- Attendance 5%
- Classwork & participation 10%
- Quizzes 15%
Breakdown
- Attendance 5%
- Classwork & participation 10%
- Quizzes 15%
- Homework and assignments 30%
Breakdown

- Attendance 5%
- Classwork & participation 10%
- Quizzes 15%
- Homework and assignments 30%
- Final exam 40%
Six Types of Chart in Task 1
• Line Chart √
• Bar Chart √
• Table √
• Pie Chart √
•Flow Chart
•Map
The information in the diagram below describes the
process of making cheese.
The Cheese Making Process

Starter to ripen milk

Warm milk

2 3
1

Pumped and cooled to 30°C

Coagulant
e.g. rennet

30 minutes
5
4 cheese
Flow Chart / Process Diagram
• A flow chart shows how something is
done or made.

• They always show steps/stages!

流程图的写作要求
• 1. 按箭头方向逐一描述各步骤。
• 2. 使用一般现在时
• 3. 多使用被动语态进行描述 (p.55)

• 4. 适当使用定语从句
• 5. 恰当使用顺序词 e.g. at the first / second /
following / final stage of the process, next, after
that, then, finally etc.
Group Activity
• Have you ever eaten Jiaozi?
• Did you know how it is made?
(How many steps it includes? )
--Step 1 ?
--Step 2 ?
--Step 3 ?
....
• Could you draw graphic symbols to show
the whole process?
1.dough: 面团 3.roller ：擀面杖 4.wrapper:
2. ferment: 发
饺子皮
酵

5.mince/chop:
剁碎
• 1. At first, the dough is fermented
at room temperature.
• 2. Next, a bit of dough is taken and it
is shaped into small balls.
• 3. After this, the balls are flattened
with a roller.
• 4.In the following stage, pork is
chopped very fine.
• 5. Then, the minced meat is mixed wit
h chopped Chinese cabbage, celery or
leek.
• 6. You can then fold the edges and pr
ess them tight.
流程图写作结构
• Introduction: rewrite the question in a
different way
• Summary:
(1) Say how many steps there are
(2) a. If No. of Steps is less than 4,
briefly mention each one.
b. If No. of Steps is more than 4,
mention the first and the last steps.
• Main body: Describe the process step by
step.
• 7. Finally, the prepared Jiao-zi are
poured into boiling water until they
are floating.
流程图解题顺序
• I. Reading a process diagram – find
the beginnings and ends （ p.52)
• II. Understand the different stages of
the process
• III. Find a way of organising your
description
• IV. Report structure
每段具体内容及要求
• Write the introduction by
paraphrasing the question (rewrite it
by changing some of the words).
• For your summary, first say how
many steps there are in the process.
Then say where/how the process
begins and ends (look at the first and
last stages).
每段具体内容及要求
• In paragraphs 3 and 4, describe the
process step by step. Include the first
and last steps that you mentioned in
the summary, but try to describe
them in more detail or in a different
way.
• Start paragraph 4 somewhere in the
middle of the process.
The diagram below shows the water cycle, which is the
continuous movement of water on, above and below the
surface of the Earth.

Introduction Sentence?
The diagram below shows the water cycle, which is the
continuous movement of water on, above and below the
surface of the Earth.

Introduction Sentence? (Change Some Words in The Title)

The diagram below shows the water cycle, which is the
continuous movement of water on, above and below the
surface of the Earth.

Introduction Sentence? (Change Some Words in The Title)

The diagram below shows the water cycle, which is the
continuous movement of water on, above and below the
surface of the Earth.

Introduction Sentence? (Change Some Words in The Title)

Chart
The diagram below shows the water cycle, which is the
continuous movement of water on, above and below the
surface of the Earth.

Introduction Sentence? (Change Some Words in The Title)

Chart
The diagram below shows the water cycle, which is the
continuous movement of water on, above and below the
surface of the Earth.

Introduction Sentence? (Change Some Words in The Title)

Chart describes/ ill

ustrates
The diagram below shows the water cycle, which is the
continuous movement of water on, above and below the
surface of the Earth.

Introduction Sentence? (Change Some Words in The Title)

Chart describes/ ill

ustrates pass through
The diagram below shows the water cycle, which is the
continuous movement of water on, above and below the
surface of the Earth.

Introduction Sentence? (Change Some Words in The Title)

Chart describes/ ill

ustrates
The diagram below shows the water cycle, which is the
continuous movement of water on, above and below the
surface of the Earth.

Introduction Sentence? (Change Some Words in The Title)

Chart describes/ ill from ocean to air to la

ustrates nd
The diagram below shows the water cycle, which is the
continuous movement of water on, above and below the
surface of the Earth.

Introduction Sentence: The chart illustrates the way in which water pass
es from ocean to air to land during the natural process known as the water cy
cle.
• The picture illustrates the way in which water passes from ocean to air to
land during the natural process known as the water cycle.

• Three main stages are shown on the diagram. Ocean water evaporates,
falls as rain, and eventually runs back into the oceans again.

• Beginning at the evaporation stage, we can see that 80% of water vapour
in the air comes from the oceans. Heat from the sun causes water to
evaporate, and water vapour condenses to form clouds. At the second
stage, labelled ‘precipitation’ on the diagram, water falls as rain or snow.

• At the third stage in the cycle, rainwater may take various paths. Some of
it may fall into lakes or return to the oceans via ‘surface runoff’. Otherwise,
rainwater may filter through the ground, reaching the impervious layer of
the earth. Salt water intrusion is shown to take place just before
groundwater passes into the oceans to complete the cycle.
The diagrams below show the life cycle of the silkworm and the
stages in the production of silk cloth.
• The figures illustrate the stages in the life of a silkworm and the process of producing
silk cloth.

• There are four main stages in the life cycle of the silkworm, from eggs to adult moth.
The process of silk cloth production involves six steps, from silkworm cocoon to silk
material.

• According to the first diagram, eggs are produced by the moth and it takes ten days
for each egg to become a silkworm larva that feeds on mulberry leaves. The stage
lasts for up to six weeks until the larva produces a cocoon of silk thread around itself.
After a period of about three weeks, the adult moths eventually emerge from these
cocoons and the life cycle begins again.

• The second chart shows that the cocoons are the raw material used for the
producgion of silk cloth. Once selected they are boiled in water and the threads can
be seperated in the unwinding stage. Each thread is between 300 and 900 metres
long, which means they can be twisted together, dyed and then used to produe cloth
in the weaving stage.
Grammar and Vocabulary
• Passives
Active: The examiner marks the test paper
Passive: The test paper is marked

• Sequencing language:
Homework
1. The flow chart below shows how national examination papers are m
arked in Someland.
Write a 250 word report describing the information below in your excerci
se book !
Homework
• 2. Review today's lesson
雅思写作流程图中一定会用到的被动词汇
• Be sent to 被送到

• Be transported to 被运送到

• Be delivered to 被输送到

• Be transferred to 被转移至

• Be heated on/in 在…上被加热

• Be extracted from 从…萃取

• Be refined from 从…提炼

• Be degraded to/from 降级为…

• Be evaporated 被蒸发

• Be incinerated 被焚烧为

• Be broken down 被分解为

• Be oxidated 被氧化为

• Be deforested 被荒漠化

• Be released to 被释放到

• Be burned by 被燃烧

• Be mixed with 和…混合

• Be moulded as 被塑造成为

• Be processed 被加工成

• Be disposed of 被处理

• Be promoted 被提升为

• Be manufactured 被制作 /制造

• Be generated 被产生 /制造

• Be grilled 被烧烤
• Be smoked 被烟熏

• Be exposed 被暴露

• Be restored 被恢复
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