Writing teacher book week 2

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TEACHER’S BOOK
I.

Warm up

O1. Remember to give thorough explanation on each question for students
1. Since five years ago, sales have grown rapidly to around 90,000. (Hiện tại hoàn thành)
2. Between 1980 and 1990, sales grew rapidly to around 90,000. (Quá khứ đơn)
3. From 2020 to 2030, sales is expected to grow rapidly to around 90,000. (Tương lai đơn)
4. By the year 2000, sales had grown rapidly to around 90,000. (Quá khứ hoàn thành)
5. By the year 2030, sales will have grown rapidly to around 90,000. (Tương lai hoàn thành)

O2. The subject is “It”
1. From 1995 to 2000, it decreased significantly. (Quá khứ đơn)
2. For the next ten years, it is expected to fall sharply. (Tương lai đơn)
3. Between 2010 and now, it rose gradually. (Quá khứ đơn)
4. By the year 2030, it will have climbed steadily. (Tương lai hoàn thành)
5. Since 2016, it has dropped slightly. (Hiện tại hồn thành)

Note:
Thì Tương lai đơn trong Writing task 1 khơng sử dụng Will vì nó mang nghĩa chắc chắn sẽ
xảy ra. Thay vào đó sử dụng “Is expected/predicted/forecast + to + Vo” để mang nghĩa
chỉ dự đoán sẽ xảy ra.

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Task 1 – Task achievement

II.

O3. Just Reference. Be situational and Improvise
1.
2.
3.
4.

Rising cost of living: highest, fluctuate
Traffic: second highest, increase sharply
Lifestyle: increase steadily, lowest.
Common trend: traffic & lifestyle: increase

O4. Suggested answers
1. Some of the data and categories are incorrectly reported.

(Incorrect: The main reason

was traffic; 70,000 left in 2010)

2. The third paragraph does not include any data to support its arguments.
3. There is no concluding paragraph.
4. The answer is considerably less than 150 words.
5. The level of language is OK, but unlikely to impress the examiner.

Note:
It is also recommended that when you write your introduction, you put it in your own words as
this demonstrates the ability to paraphrase (Lexical Resource). This introduction borrows heavily
from the question.

O5.
1.
2.
3.
4.

B
A
D
C

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O6.
A This is not a good conclusion: (a) to say 'people left the city for three main reasons' is not
necessarily true: the graph did supply three reasons - however, there may have been others that
were not included in the graph; (b) there is incorrect reporting of data, which should be 'between
1990 and 2010', not '1990 and 2000'. Also, life style did not change the least, since, given the fall
between 2000 and 2010, rising cost of living changed the least for the whole period.
B This is the best conclusion.It is less mechanical than A,mentions the main features and expresses
what had started to happen by the end of the period.
C The worst conclusion of all three. Not only has the candidate included data in their concluding
paragraph, but it also repeats what has already been stated in the main body. The candidate does
not 'step back' and present a summary of the main trends or features.

O7.
Rising cost of living: the (1) highest point of any reason in any year (85,000 in 2000); the only
one to decrease (to 80,000 in 2010).
Traffic: greatest (2) overall rise (40,000); most (3) notable rise between 2000 and 2010
(25,000).
Lifestyle: Most (4) consistent and (5) stable increase (only 20,000); remained the (6) lowest
of all three reasons.
Traffic and Lifestyle: (7) joint-lowest in the first year presented (20,000 in 1990).

O8.
Inappropriate adverbs for a Task 1 essay: amazingly, shockingly, predictably,

surprisingly.
The adverbs significantly and noticeably are arguably subjective, but used in the correct way are
not necessarily so:
The increase in people moving for a better quality of life is significantly higher than in the other

categories.
The rise in people moving for a better quality of life is noticeably higher than in the other categories
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O9.
2 Traffic experienced a steady rise as a reason for moving to the countryside between 1990 and
2000 ...
3 but then increased markedly between 2000 and 2010.
4 The number of people moving to the countryside for lifestyle reasons saw a consistent growth
across the whole period shown in the graph.

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HOMEWORK
SAMPLE ANSWER
The line chart below shows the results of a survey giving the reasons why people moved to the
capital city of a particular country.

The line graph sets out the key motivations for people relocating to the capital of a specific country
between 2000 and 2015.
Moving for the purpose of study saw the greatest rise overall, with a jump of approximately 62,000.
It rose considerably in two periods- from 2000 to 2005 (by 22,000), and then again from 2010 to
2015 (by 33,000), with a more gentle growth of around 7,000 in between.
Elsewhere, the figure of people relocating for work began at 61,000 in 2000, then peaked at 92,000
in 2010- the highest of any reason, in any year- before finishing as the joint-highest in 2015 (87,000
- on a level with those relocating in order to study). Notably, this category was the only one of the
four that underwent a downturn.
Turning to 'adventure', this category rose the most stably and steadily of all four categories, from
11,000 to 15,000 over the fifteen-year period. Meanwhile, the number of people relocating for
'family and friends' reasons climbed gently in the first five years (12,000 to 14,000), followed by
an upswing to 22,000, before eventually levelling off at around 23,000 in 2015.
All in all, the graph tells us that, 'employment' aside, there was an increase in each of the four
reasons for moving over the period in question, with the greatest rise occurring in those citing
study as the main motivating factor. (212 words)

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