Gold Coast IELTS Podcast23 Feb 2020

3. IELTS Task 1 : "Introduction sentence 2"

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Welcome back! In the first two podcasts we looked at how to make the first sentence of our introduction, which was basically a cleverly worded paraphrase of the chart title. Today we’ll look at how to make the second sentence of our introduction, or the S2. This sentence will describe the key trend of the chart. What is the key trend? This is simply the first thing that jumps out at you when you take a look at the chart. It could be a general increase, a general decrease, or no change. There are many possibilities.

Firstly, we need to look at the language we can use to start this sentence. Here are a few good S2 starters:

1. In general, we can see that ...

2. In general, it can be seen that ...

3. Overall, the chart shows a (ADJECTIVE) trend ...

4. Overall, it can be seen that while ... , ... .

Now lets try to make a solid introduction with an S1 and an S2. Take a look at the chart below(SEE CHART ON PODCAST 3 EXPLANATION):

The first step is to make a good S1 using the title. How about something like:

S1: The line chart shows the proportions of women in government in European nations of the 12 year period starting in 2000 and ending in 2012.

Now we need to make our key trend S2 sentence:

S2: Overall, it can be seen that the percentages of women serving in government increased in all the countries represented.

Lets put them together, and our introduction is complete!

The line chart shows the proportions of women in government in European nations of the 12 year period starting in 2000 and ending in 2012. Overall, it can be seen that the percentages of women serving in government increased in all the countries represented.

This is a nice little task 1 introduction of 44 words.

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