IELTS VOCABULARY - Task 1
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- Are your IELTS Task 1 scores fluctuating in your practice samples? In other words, are they sometimes high and sometimes low? If they are low, it might be because you are using some of the necessary words incorrectly. In this lesson, we will look at nine essential words for this section of the test and how to use them correctly so as to reach your peak band score. Do you know the difference between "percent" and percentage, "former" and "latter", "20-year-old man" and a "man who is 20 years old"? You will understand all this and more after watching this lesson.
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Hi. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam, and today's lesson is for those of you who will be taking the IELTS test. Now, as usual, when I do an IELTS class, I will speak a little bit faster, a little bit closer to natural speed for those of you who need the extra listening practice. But this is for everybody; there's always something to learn, it's all English.
So today we're going to specifically look at IELTS Task 1, and I'm going to give you a few vocabulary that are essential to success in IELTS Task 1. You won't necessarily use all of them every time, but you need to know these nine words that I'm going to show you-or 10 words, depends how you look at it-you need to know these words so you're ready for pretty much any kind of infographic that comes your way.
Now, most of the time and most of your practice, I'm sure, is graphs. Okay? So we're going to start with looking at graphs, and we're going to look at these two words: "fluctuate", a verb, okay? And: "fluctuation", a noun. Now, from my experience, checking students' or test takers' essays, this word is quite often misused. Okay? I think sometimes people are not exactly sure what this word means. So, to show you, I'm going to show you a graph, here. This is a fluctuation. Let's say we're looking at a span of 2000 to 2014, so we're looking 15 years of sales, let's say. Sales and whatever the number is in hundred of millions. Okay? "Fluctuate" means to go up and down quite rapidly. Okay? It doesn't have to be rapid; it could be steady, but there's an up, there's a down, there's an up, there's a down.
If you're going something like this, this you don't call a fluctuation. Even though it's not a straight line, it's still not a fluctuation, because overall, the sales are still going upwards, they're still increasing. Fluctuation, there must be some downward movement as well. It goes up and there's down from... Let's say from the starting point. So here we go up, down, up, down, up, down. Here, it's mostly up. You very rarely go down below where you started. So overall, you have an upward motion. This is to fluctuate. So, you can use it as a verb: Over the span of the recording, of the record, of the 15 years, sales fluctuated from let's say 100 million to as little... And ended up here, let's say, it's a little bit lower to 110. So, overall, there was a slight increase, but sales fluctuated throughout the period. Okay?
You can use "fluctuation". If you want to talk about the graph as a whole, you can say: "The graph shows fluctuations in the sales numbers." Okay? The graph shows fluctuations. Sales fluctuated. So you can talk about the... Whatever is on the x-axis itself, or you can talk about the graph as a whole. Use "fluctuate" for whatever item is here; use "fluctuation" for the graph as a whole.
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Alright, i found this lesson really interesting, thank you so much, all your vídeos are great and you are really helping us a lot here. Thanks
adam, you are, clrealy, the best English teacher i have ever seen in my life. thank you for posting all the videos you do! I am a much better writer and communicator of English because of you, and we do not even know each other :)
I had to come back and thank you for your great videos. writing and speaking was my weakness in IELTS exams. after watching and practicing for a whole week. I got my band 7 and I have you to thank. Thank you Adam for the amazing tips and videos
Thank you so much for your devotion to the teaching and learning English. I really appreciate your work and your explanations are easy to follow. Blessings from Argentina!
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Hi Adam! Love this video, which you explain very clearly about how to use words properly in contexts. Please make more like this if you have time. Thank you very much.
adam, you know what you are the best. you decribe all those keywords with such an ease and i'll surely use them in my writting task 1.
One of my fav IELTS teachers on CZcams, very helpful and easy to understand. Thank you!
I´m taking the IELTS for the third time in one week from now! I could barely remember these tips but this video refresh my memory (I have watched it several times over a 5-year span). Thanks teacher Adam!!
Adam, thank you for this very valuable information!
I've never seen anything more useful than this lesson for writing(1) in IELTS exam. really thank you
you helped me soo much soo much in my ilets exam
the BEST English teacher EVER !😍🌷
Great. each lesson likes a whole book. Thanks Adam
Thank you Adam, good lesson!
Great video as always, thanks Adam!
thank you very much for this wonderful lesson, Mr.Adam!!! i've learned a lot from this!!
Awesome lesson! Wonderful, high-quality production.
You are one of my three favourite teachers. Thanks for your lessons.
Thank you so much Adam. This is useful and I really like the way you teach.
Thanks a lot! You are one of the best treachers I've known. Best of luck for you 🍀
You are a great teacher. Now i have enough confidence to Appearing IELTS exam because of you.Thank you so much and all blessings from INDIA.
Hi Adam, I've been following yours classes, thanks for share your knowledge. further this is the best class
I love you you're an amazing teacher I'm so lucky that I find your videos 😢😘❤❤❤
Me too
Those were vital for me
I found the video today(before my exam day). Thank you Adam for your assistance, It’s really helpful
You're amazing, I'm watching all the IELTS videos and applying all your hints. Thanks you!
Sir, I really want to say you are the best that I have even seen who always give amazing strategies and tips
Thank You So much Sir
Thank you,Adam.
I highly appreciate the efforts spent to produce this series of videos. They are really fruitful.
Great video, Adam, it’s really helpful ! Thank you 😊
Great video Adam!
I'd like to share a technique I teach:
Introduction: Re-phrase the graph title.
Paragraph 1: Find the maximums, minimums, exceptions and unusual features.
Summary: Overall trend (never ever an opinion).
Good luck in the exam friends! :-)
I was advised to put the overview right after the introduction. As this will ease the marker into my body paragraph. However, this will require you to see the whole body paragraph through before you can write this.
This is not the right way to do it, at least presently. Here's a better way:
Introduction- paraphrase the description in the question
Overview- mention the key points. As you said; : "Find the maximums, minimums, exceptions and unusual features."
Body paragraph 1
Body paragraph 2
Thank you Adam!
Im going to learn IELTS so that your lesson is really helpful to me. Its very interesting, easy to understand. I always wait for your videos. Thank you so much!
Thank you Adam....I refer your videos to improve my skills and it works quite well for me.
You are a very good teacher.
Thanks Adam! such a great video! God bless u each day as you share all the information:)
I wish we had teachers like you in Morocco.your videos really worth watching👍👍good job!
hi adam. i'm learning from your videos a lot.. credits to your extraordinary cuteness 😉😚
Thank you Adam I learn from you a lot :).
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thank you very much. I'm studying as autodidact for the IELTS exam that I will be taking in september (hopefully) and this video is very useful.
hey Adam thank you for these precious videos I would love to watch a video from you aboout the differences among "realize,notice,seem,like,"
spectacular! Adam you are the best teacher ever.
Thanks, Adam for your lessons!
You must know that you are helping people all over the world with our English, as well as all teachers related to "English Lessons..." Therefore I wanted to post this just to Thank you for all these vids, efforts, time and so on.
Are really appreciated.
I have lived in Canada for some months btw, and I consider my self half canadian half Spanish :)
Keep it up and thanks again.
AWESOME lesson! Thank you very much!
I really appreciate your work .I Learnt many things from your videos
thanks a lot for this wonderful and helpful lecture
Great explanation teeming with expertise & dexterity. Great job, sir
Thank you so much you are amazing I am watching all your lessons for my IELTS exam coming up in hope you are my school Teacher or maybe my University professor
That what i was looking for
Thank you so much 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I really do enjoy your classes and your approach of teaching thank you very much ❤️
very very useful!
Great video. Adam, once I came across your video, i always skipped. However, today you have become a star my mind.
thank you a lot for those useful knowledge
ur class is on peak
Thank you so much
Thank you for the appreciated points and the interesting fast explanation
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Adam you are the best teacher!!!
Great lesson as always :)
I found it very beneficial for writing a summary of a chart.plz keep uploading such videos .
It is extremely useful video lesson for every student who want to achieve a high score on the IELTS writing exam. So I am going to say that thank you.
The best teacher thanks a bunch I was struggling with some words but now I know how to use in my task 1 essay these words correctly. Thank you again 😊😍
Thank you, Adam~
Adam is a very good teacher
Thank you very much for your sharing. I found it very useful!
Thank you!
thank you so much Mr Adam : )
you are fantastic, you provide me always all necessary notes and tips
Thank you! I love your lessons
Very productive. Thanks!
Wonderful teaching! Thanks a lot !
To be honest, You are the best!
I love your lessons!
Great explanation ! Very useful :-) Thank you
TY so much, your videos are very useful. I found this video really interesting!!
It's worth a lot.. so useful information.. thanks sir.. furthermore your way of teaching is excellent..
This is very helpful. Thanks!
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You are the best.
Thanks.
I am very impressed your teaching technique
Thank you, I learned a lot.😊
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Thanks for your video and your job. I really appreciate it.
Thanks Mr Adam))) It was so useful for me !!
thank you so much for the lesson.
Thank you! It was very understandable!
thank you Mr. Adam so much
U did excellent explanation. Thank sir,
I'm not planing to take IELTS now, but it seems exciting & difficult. Anyway, thanks for sharing a great English lesson! By the way, looks like he's really good at teaching English. If only I were better at learning his English lessons.
hi Adam thank you for your lessons
THANK YOU DEAR ADAM
very nicely explained. I like it.Thank you sir.
Hi Adam, thank you for all your videos, you're a great teacher: I have a question, is it correct to use the expression "a high percentage" instead of "a large percentage"? Which one is correct? Thank you very much.
oh men! this is very useful. i hope u can teach me more lessons about ielts task 2 and 3. They are so so difficult to me. thanku so much!
You are really helping to improve my english
thak you
Thank you, adam sir for the videos. It is really helpful and I gained some tactics through the lectures. However, it would have been better if there was speaking test face to face with you online. :)
thank you my teacher
Thank you very much that was very helpful.😊
Thank you!!!
Helpful As I am Going To Start Taking Ielts Classes..