In the first lesson in this series, I focus on the key points that you need to identify on a line graph, bar chart & other chart types in your IELTS academic writing task 1. You are given lots of information in your writing task, so it can be confusing when you have to choose the most important features to write about in your report.

In this Change Over Time graph, I will show you how to identify a key point of data and what to do next.

In this lesson I will run through some real life examples of data & charts and show you how to identify the key points needed.

It is important to understand that for your Task 1, you are not writing an essay, you are writing a report. Reports need to be organised and logical and you should aim to keep it simple. Here we will review what you should be writing to complete your task efficiently and accurately.

To score 7 or above in your IELTS writing, you need to use Complex Sentences. In this lesson, I am going to introduce you to both Simple and Compound sentences, which you need to understand and know how to use correctly before you can write a Complex sentence.

Simple and Compounds are relatively simple sentences, but they can also be confusing if you are not careful.

For band 7+ grammar, you need to be able to demonstrate that you can use Complex Sentences in your writing. A complex sentence is a chunk of language that includes either a subordinating conjunction OR a relative pronoun.

Learn more in this lesson and you will discover that they are not as complicated as you might think.

If you can write a Compound Sentence and you can also write a Complex Sentence, then the next step is to combine both of these sentence types to create a Complex Compound Sentence.

Doing so is not as difficult as you imagine it will be.