IELTS Writing: Numbers and Pie Charts
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Hi there. My name is Emma, and in today's video, I am going to talk
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a lot about the IELTS test, specifically writing task one.
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I'm going to teach you about a certain thing
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you might see on the IELTS, and that's a pie chart. I'm going to explain what a pie chart
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is, and ways to talk about pie charts in order to improve your vocabulary mark for the IELTS.
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Many students get really, really confused when they see graphs on the IELTS, and they
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get really confused trying to talk about numbers, specifically. So, in this video, I'm also
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going to talk about: How do we describe numbers when we're looking at pie charts?
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How do we describe percentages? You know, and how can we
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make our vocabulary very varied? Okay?
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So, let's get started.
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The first thing I want to do is talk about: What is a pie chart?
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So, I have here three different types of graphs.
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Three different graphs you might see on the IELTS, in the
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writing section, in the very first part of the writing section. Okay? You might see a
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picture like this, like this, or like this. So, one of these looks like a pie, something
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you eat. Which one do you think looks the most like pie?
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If you said this one, you are correct.
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This is what we are going to be talking about today. We can call it either a "pie chart"
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or a "pie graph". Both are correct. You might also see this one, this one is called
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a line graph; or you might see this, which is called a bar graph.
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So, let me write that on the board. So, "pie chart", "line graph", and "bar graph".
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You might also see a process,
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a diagram, or maybe even a table on the IELTS. But for today, we are only going to be focusing
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on pie charts.
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Okay, so what is a pie chart? A pie chart shows us percentages. Okay? So, if we look
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down here, I have here what I spend my money on. Okay? I want you to imagine each month,
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all the money I make, all my salary, this is what I spend it on.
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I spend some of it on rent, I spend some of it on food,
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I spend some of it on transport or transportation,
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and I spend some of it on fun. Okay? So, on the IELTS, you might have to describe something
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like this. It might be more complicated. Sometimes you might actually have two pie graphs or
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pie charts that you might have to compare and describe, but in this case, let's start
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out a little bit easier.
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So, I want you to imagine you're writing the IELTS, and you've been told to describe this
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pie chart. What are you going to say about it? Okay?
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Well, the very first thing you should do is you should think about: What does it all mean?
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And by that, I mean: Think about
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how much percent is each thing? Okay? So, for example, for cost of living, how much
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is this? What size does this look like? Although we can't be sure, because I'm not the best
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artist and this is not a perfect circle, I would say this is about 50%.
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Okay? And this, what does it look like to you? Maybe 25%.
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So, food is around 25%. Transport we might
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say... Let's say 15%.
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And fun, maybe 10%. Although, we're not sure. So, on the IELTS
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you might see something like this. You might actually have the percentages written, so