TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC THỦY LỢI Trung tâm Đào tạo Quốc tế - Bộ môn Tiếng Anh Môn học: Grammar Tên giảng viên: Nguyễn Thị Hồng Anh Email: anhnth@tlu.vn Articles Adjectives and adverbs TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC THỦY LỢI Trung tâm Đào tạo Quốc tế - Bộ môn Tiếng Anh Môn học: Writing 2 Tên giảng viên: Vũ Thị Thu Hương Email: vuhuong@tlu.vn Writing Task 1 IELTS writing General about IELTS – Task 1 What do you know about IELTS writing task 1? Time: Word count Kinds of visual data Structure of answer Task weighting I. What? General information: • 1st task (IELTS writing skill) • 20 minutes • A report of 150 words on tables/bar chart /pie chart/process/map • A third of total mark What to note: • Describe the main trends/main features • Compare the related statistics • UNECESSARY to give personal ideas in the report. How to mark: • Task Response/Achievement • Lexical Range/Resources • Grammatical range and Accuracy • Coherence and Cohesion What are the different stages of writing process? • Read the instruction/ question carefully • Analyze the task/question • Look at the data select key data/main trend • Decide how many paragraphs to write • Check for mistakes II. Types of tables A.FORMAT You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The table below shows the television viewing figures for sports by country, in millions. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.FORMAT Table • Introduction • Overview • Body 1 / Detail 1 • Body 2 / Detail 2 (P/S: Pie chart/Bar chart/Line graph) A. INTRODUCTION What to write: • Restate the info. in the question • Show what the table gives and the time together • ONLY ONE sentence TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC THỦY LỢI Trung tâm Đào tạo Quốc tế - Bộ môn Tiếng Anh Môn học: Writing 2 Tên giảng viên: Vũ Thị Thu Hương Email: vuhuong@tlu.FORMAT You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The table below shows the television viewing figures for sports by country, in millions. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.FORMAT Table • Introduction • Overview • Body 1 / Detail 1 • Body 2 / Detail 2 (P/S: Pie chart/Bar chart/Line graph) A. INTRODUCTION What to write: • Restate the info. in the question • Show what the table gives and the time together • ONLY ONE sentence INTRODUCTION You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The table below shows the television viewing figures for sports by country, in millions. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main f eatures, and make camparisons where relevant. INTRODUCTION Paraphrasing • Original sent.: The table below shows the television viewing figures for sports by country, in millions. • Paraphrasing: + The table illustrates the number of television viewing for sports in some countries.
+ The table below compares the television viewers for sports by territory, in millions INTRODUCTION Practice 2: (using Classkick) Paraphrasing Practice 3: (using padlet) Handout 2 A. Overview What??? - Short summary of the infomation in the graph/chart. - be written after the 1st sentence How??? Overview Practice: Identifying Overview • Practice 4: Tables\Tables. BODY Body 1: + Describe and compare the trends and illustrate them with specific numbers Body 2: + Describe and compare the trends and illustrate them with specific numbers Practice 5 Useful languages B.
LINE GRAPH/ BAR CHART I. Format • Introduction (paraphrase the question) • Overview (general trend) • Body 1 / Detail 1 (statistics and comparison) • Body 2 / Detail 2 (statistics and comparison) LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT & STRUCTURES • Useful verbs/verb phrases • Useful adjectives and adverbs • Useful structures Practice 1, 2 (classkick, slide 1,2) • Practice 3: Rewrite the sentences. TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC THỦY LỢI Trung tâm Đào tạo Quốc tế - Bộ môn Tiếng Anh Môn học: Writing 2 Tên giảng viên: Vũ Thị Thu Hương Email: vuhuong@tlu.vn IELTS Writing Task 2 A. Writing an essay I.
What is it? Marking Criteria • You will be assessed in four areas: √ Task Achievement (25%) √ Coherence and Cohesion (25%) √ Lexical Resource (25%) √ Grammatical Range and Accuracy (25%) II. How many types of essays 1. Cause and effect essay 3. Problem and Solution essay 4.
Advantage and disadvantage essay 1’: Discussion (Discuss both view) III. What is the format? IV. Introduction Paraphrasing Task/Question Thesis statement Outline sentence E.g: Question: Many people believe that volunteering should become a compulsory task at school while the others argue with this. To what extend, do you agree or disagree with this suggestion? It is argued that volunteering should be made part of the school curriculum.
This essay agrees with that suggestion completely because of the benefits it brings to pupils. The essay will first look at how voluntary work can help students develop soft skills and then discuss how these extracurricular activities are valued by universities and employers.1: How to paraphrase/Restate questions • Eg: Studying abroad is on the rise among teenagers. Studying overseas is increasing among young people. • Eg: Learning to manage money is one of the key aspects to adult life.
One of the essential aspects to adult life is learning to manage money. One of the key aspect that adults have to face with is learning to manage money Practice 1 • Read the tasks/questions. • Paraphrase the questions/tasks (can base on the underlined words) • Eg. Paraphrase: • It is important for children to study foreign languages in schools.2: Thesis statement • the most important sentence • tell the examiner that you have understood the question and will lead to a clear and coherent essay.
• always just one sentence long have to practise summing up your opinion in one sentence Practice 2 • Match these Thesis statements with the Paraphrasing sent you’ve made