Gold Coast IELTS Podcast1 Mar 2020

4. IELTS Task 1 : "Body paragraph sentence 1"

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Welcome back! Today we’ll look at how to make the first sentence of the body paragraph for our task 1. Lets call this sentence the S1. This sentence will describe one key detail of the chart. In the chart below, it would probably be the line for the UK, which rose a lot more than any of the other lines in the chart. In fact, this line rose by about 20 per cent.

Some of the language we could use to start this sentence is given below. We could say something like:

1. Looking in more detail, the line chart illustrates that ...

2. A closer look at the line chart shows us that ...

Now lets try to make a great S1 for our IELTS task 1. Take a look at the chart below to jog your memory.

Firstly, lets describe the line for the UK in simple terms.

S1: Looking in more detail, the line chart illustrates that the line for the UK increased a lot.

This is OK, but we can make it better by adding some numbers and better detail. Lets try again.

S2: Looking in more detail, the line chart illustrates that the percentage of female members of parliament in the UK increased by around 20%.

This is much better, but we can make it even cooler by adding a little comparison with a relative clause at the end.

S2: Looking in more detail, the line chart illustrates that the percentage of female members of parliament in the UK increased by around 20%, which is about 9% or 10% more than any other country.

What a great way to start your body paragraph! It is a long sentence, at 33 words, but does many amazing things. It shows off your grammar, uses connecting language, gives detail and makes a little comparison.

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