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IELTS Task 1 Vocabulary Guide

This document provides a summary of key vocabulary useful for IELTS Academic Writing Task 1. It lists terms for describing common chart types like bar charts, line charts, pie charts, and maps. It also gives verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs for expressing the movement of data, such as increased, decline, reduction, dramatic, sharply, slowly. The purpose is to help teachers and students establish knowledge about the format and language of IELTS Task 1 writing.

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IELTS Task 1 Vocabulary Guide

This document provides a summary of key vocabulary useful for IELTS Academic Writing Task 1. It lists terms for describing common chart types like bar charts, line charts, pie charts, and maps. It also gives verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs for expressing the movement of data, such as increased, decline, reduction, dramatic, sharply, slowly. The purpose is to help teachers and students establish knowledge about the format and language of IELTS Task 1 writing.

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IELTS

Writing Task 1 Vocabulary


IELTs task 1 is generally a:

Aim: to establish
knowledge about the
format of IELTS
Academic Writing

Target teacher
Audience:

Relevance Academic Writing


to IELTS:

Bar Chart / line chart Pie Chart Map


Table

Useful Vocabulary

Expressing movement: nouns and


verbs
Rose (to) a rise
increased to an increase
went up to growth
climbed to an upward
boomed trend
a boom (a dramatic rise)

fell (to) a decrease


declined (to) a decline
decreased (to) a fall
dipped (to) a drop
dropped (to) a slump (a dramatic
fall)
went down (to) a reduction
reduced (to)

levelled out (at) a levelling out


did not change no change
remained stable (at)
remained steady (at)
stayed (at)
stayed constant (at)
maintained the same level

fluctuated (around) a fluctuation


peaked (at) reached a peak
(of)
stood at (use this phrase to focus on a
particular point, before we mention the
movement, for example: In the first year,
unemployment stood at...)
Describing the movement: adjectives small
and adverbs minimal minimally
dramatic dramatically
describing the speed of change
sharp sharply
huge
enormous enormousely Adjective adverbs
steep steeply rapid rapidly
substantial substantially quick quickly
considerable considerably swift swiftly
significant significantly sudden suddenly
marked markedly steady steadily
moderate moderately gradual gradually
slight slighty slow slowly

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