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IELTS writing - Task 1 report- describing numbers Sunday, May 24, 2009 Posted by Dominic Cole Part of the skill in task 1 writing is dealing with numbers. With a pie chart, line graph or table you need be able to summarise the key details: to do this you need the language of numbers, as you should not simply write out all the numbers it is a summarising task. This can be surprisingly complex to do as the figures in most task 1 exercises are not “simple figures” but rather more complex
How to describe differences accurately 40 is double is 20, but what about 42 and 20? Or 30 and 88? These are the sort of “complex figures” you may need to describe in the exam and the examiner is looking for an accurate description of just this type of numbers. What you need to do is compare the numbers. Here is some helpful language for you: it is important that you have some variations here
Basic
Variation
Variation
Variation
Variation
meaning about
approximately around
more than
over
just over
less than
under
just under
exactly
more or less almost
nearly
precisely
So 40 is exactly double 20 42 is approximately double 20 30 is just over a third of 88
More language of numbers To do this well, you need some mathematical language too: simple language
simple figures
complex language complex figures
double
40:80
approximately 40:82 double the amount
twice
40:80
twice as many 40:80 people
three times
30:90
over three times as 30:100 many people
four times
50:200
nearly four times as 50:190 many people
half
60:30
about half the 60:28 amount of televisions
a third
120:40
precisely a third of 120:40 the televisions
a quarter
160:40
almost a quarter of 160:35 all televisions
a fifth
150:30
just over one fifth of 150:33
all televisions a fraction
100:8
a small fraction of 1000:25 students
percentage
%
a significant 65% percentage of students
proportion
similar to %
a large proportion of 80% students
How to describe differences accurately 40 is double is 20, but what about 42 and 20? Or 30 and 88? These are the sort of “complex figures” you may need to describe in the exam and the examiner is looking for an accurate description of just this type of numbers. What you need to do is compare the numbers. Here is some helpful language for you: it is important that you have some variations here
Basic
Variation
Variation
Variation
Variation
meaning about
approximately around
more than
over
just over
less than
under
just under
exactly
more or less almost
nearly
precisely
So 40 is exactly double 20 42 is approximately double 20 30 is just over a third of 88
More language of numbers To do this well, you need some mathematical language too: simple language
simple figures
complex language complex figures
double
40:80
approximately 40:82 double the amount
twice
40:80
twice as many 40:80 people
three times
30:90
over three times as 30:100 many people
four times
50:200
nearly four times as 50:190 many people
half
60:30
about half the 60:28 amount of televisions
a third
120:40
precisely a third of 120:40 the televisions
a quarter
160:40
almost a quarter of 160:35 all televisions
a fifth
150:30
just over one fifth of 150:33
all televisions a fraction
100:8
a small fraction of 1000:25 students
percentage
%
a significant 65% percentage of students
proportion
similar to %
a large proportion of 80% students
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