Common writing task 1 and writing task 2 vocabulary for IELTS
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🔰Vocabulary for Graphs
🔸Going Up
• Rose
• Went up
• Increased
• Grew
• Shot up
• Surged
• Rocketed
🔸Going Down
• decreased
• fell
• dropped
• declined
• Went down
• Plunged
• Plummeted
🔸No Change
• stayed the same
• remained constant
• stabilised
• remained steady
• were unchanged
• did not change
• remained stable
🔸Up and Down
• fluctuated
• undulated
🔸Small Changes - Adjectives / Adverbs
• gently
• gradually
• slightly
• steadily
• a little
🔸Large Changes - Adverbs / Adjectives
• suddenly
• sharply
• dramatically
• steeply
• a lot
🔸High Points
• reached a peak (peak when the graph looks like the "peak" of a mountain)
• peaked
• reached their highest level
🔸Low Points
• fell to a low
• sank to a trough
• reached a bottom
🔸Expressions of Time
• in 2012/ recent years
• over the year/ period
• between 1980 and 2012
• from 1980 until 2012
• since (point of time) May/ 2011
• for (period of time) the period / five months
🔸Examples Using Noun and Verb Forms
• Sales rose from $50 to $140/ There was a rise in sales of $90
• Sales fell to 25 million dollars in 1998/ there was a fall in sales of 25 million dollars in 1998
• Sales fell by 2%/ there was a slight fall in sales of 2%
• It peaked at 23%/ it reached a peak of 23%
• it fluctuated between 5 and 8 percent, there was a fluctuation of 3%
🔸Useful introductory expressions:
The graph shows / indicates / depicts / illustrates
From the graph it is clear
It can be seen from the graph
As can be seen from the graph,
As is shown / illustrated by the graph,
Example: The graph shows the percentage of children using supplements in a place over a year.
🔸Useful time expressions:
over the next... / for the following... (for the following two months... over the next six months...)
from ... to / between ... and (from June to August... between June and August...)
during (during the first three months...)
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