IELTS Writing: Numbers and Pie Charts

Taking the IELTS? In this video, I will teach you key vocabulary that will help you get a better score on the writing section of the IELTS. To make things easy for you, I'll teach you impressive academic vocabulary and give you sentences you can use to describe numbers, percentages, and fractions. You'll learn what IELTS examiners are looking for, and what you need to write to get a high band. We'll practice analyzing and describing pie charts so you know exactly what to do when you take your test! Continue your IELTS preparation with many other free IELTS lessons at • IELTS lessons
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TRANSCRIPT
Hi there. My name is Emma, and in today's video, I am going to talk a lot about the IELTS test, specifically writing task one. I'm going to teach you about a certain thing you might see on the IELTS, and that's a pie chart. I'm going to explain what a pie chart is, and ways to talk about pie charts in order to improve your vocabulary mark for the IELTS.
Many students get really, really confused when they see graphs on the IELTS, and they get really confused trying to talk about numbers, specifically. So, in this video, I'm also going to talk about: How do we describe numbers when we're looking at pie charts? How do we describe percentages? You know, and how can we make our vocabulary very varied? Okay? So, let's get started.
The first thing I want to do is talk about: What is a pie chart? So, I have here three different types of graphs. Three different graphs you might see on the IELTS, in the writing section, in the very first part of the writing section. Okay? You might see a picture like this, like this, or like this. So, one of these looks like a pie, something you eat. Which one do you think looks the most like pie? If you said this one, you are correct. This is what we are going to be talking about today. We can call it either a "pie chart" or a "pie graph". Both are correct. You might also see this one, this one is called a line graph; or you might see this, which is called a bar graph. So, let me write that on the board. So, "pie chart", "line graph", and "bar graph". You might also see a process, a diagram, or maybe even a table on the IELTS. But for today, we are only going to be focusing on pie charts.
Okay, so what is a pie chart? A pie chart shows us percentages. Okay? So, if we look down here, I have here what I spend my money on. Okay? I want you to imagine each month, all the money I make, all my salary, this is what I spend it on. I spend some of it on rent, I spend some of it on food, I spend some of it on transport or transportation, and I spend some of it on fun. Okay? So, on the IELTS, you might have to describe something like this. It might be more complicated. Sometimes you might actually have two pie graphs or pie charts that you might have to compare and describe, but in this case, let's start out a little bit easier.
So, I want you to imagine you're writing the IELTS, and you've been told to describe this pie chart. What are you going to say about it? Okay? Well, the very first thing you should do is you should think about: What does it all mean? And by that, I mean: Think about how much percent is each thing? Okay? So, for example, for cost of living, how much is this? What size does this look like? Although we can't be sure, because I'm not the best artist and this is not a perfect circle, I would say this is about 50%. Okay? And this, what does it look like to you? Maybe 25%. So, food is around 25%. Transport we might say... Let's say 15%. And fun, maybe 10%. Although, we're not sure. So, on the IELTS you might see something like this. You might actually have the percentages written, so you already know what it is, or you might actually have numbers. Okay? So, this might actually be money, and so it might actually say, like, $500 to rent, $200 to food, and so forth. Okay, but the first thing to do is really think about: What are the percentages, here?
Okay, so to begin a sentence when we're talking about the pie chart, these are three different sentences that are very great... Really, really good sentences to use on the IELTS when you're talking about pie graphs. The first one is: "According to the chart", you can also say: "We can see from the chart", or "We can see from the pie chart", "The chart shows that", okay? So these are good ways to open up the sentence, and then to actually talk about what you see here.

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[@jeramelcorsino6131]

that's great ! I'm preparing the ielts now, can you tell me how did you do the reading ? I mean, what steps did you take because as there is not a lot of time for read all the passages and I'm getting confused about if I should read it all first or scanning and skimming instead.

[@TheKamu666]

+Jeramel corsino Hii Jeramel. Thanks! Well reading was the hardest part for my ielts exam. Honestly, skimming and scanning didn't work me so i chose to read the entire passage. Huge mistake and almost ran out of time! So from personal experience I would suggest: * read the questions first and look for synonyms on the passage * finish the third passage first cause that is the hardest and takes a lot of time *practice reading quickly and scan for the key words. * time yourself at home. you need more time on the second and third passage than the first one. *practice finishing the first passage very quickly Hope it helps! :( Ask me further questions if you need any help -Kamran :)

[@jeramelcorsino6131]

Okay, thank you very much for your advice, I'll try to practice as much as I can 😊

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+TheKamu666 hi kamran ,can i ask you what are the topics that you got in your speaking and writing exam ,just i want to know to prepar well for my IELTS exam?? :)🌹🌹

[@TheKamu666]

+‫وعد 1993‬‎ my speaking topic was public health and what measures we should take to tackle health related issues in our country.writing task 1 was a line graph and task 2 was women are better at parenting than men and thus have a better role in raising their children. Hope it helps! s

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Even though I can understand the pie chart, I don't know how to express my idea. Thank to watch your video, it helped me with writing out my opinion. Thank you so much.

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Thank you very much. Your classes are amazing. I learn how to describe pie chart, line graph and bar graph. Now, I will do IELTS exam because your tutorials help me as well as to score high marks. Thank you my best teacher.

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Excellent presentation. Thank you. I don't think decimals were covered in this video, so one caveat for French people out there: "0.1%" and "0.25%" are respectively said "a tenth of a percent" and "a quarter of a percent." Also, in America, "1.377" is pronounced "one point three seven seven" rather than "one point three hundred and seventy-seven."

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