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‫This lesson is all about the grammar that you will need for elite writing task one.

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‫I'll be showing you some really useful sentence structures that you can practice with and use on the

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‫day of your test.

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‫I really suggest noting down a lot of the language and sentence types that I show you in this lesson

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‫and practice using them as much as you can.

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‫Now for a quick word on grammar.

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‫As we know from looking at the band descriptors, grammatical range and accuracy makes up 25 percent

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‫of your overall alts writing task one mark.

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‫However, grammar takes a long time to really improve accuracy and fluency.

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‫I can show you lots of tips during this video, but you're going to need to do a lot of other things

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‫to practice and improve your grammar.

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‫Here are three top tips that you can do alongside this course to help improve your overall grammar levels,

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‫but I will say again, it does take a really long time to build your accuracy and levels of fluency.

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‫So it's better to concentrate on things like structure and organization for the adults writing test,

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‫because that's something that we can quickly understand and develop our abilities in.

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‫It's time that we moved on to our first set of sentence structures, and it's all about making comparisons.

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‫Here is a pie chart that I'll be using to describe and show you examples of the grammar that I would

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‫use to describe it.

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‫He is sentence structure one.

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‫Let's take a look at some examples.

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‫We can clearly see that taxes were more popular than walking by six percent.

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‫Riding the bus was less popular than driving a car, which was the highest voted mode of transport.

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‫He is the second structure.

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‫More people preferred riding a bicycle than taking the bus.

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‫And his example to.

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‫We can see that less people enjoyed riding trains than driving cars.

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‫He is a bar chart, I would like you to pause the video and using the sentence structures I've shown

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‫you, try and create some sentences to report and make comparisons for the video now and try your best.

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‫OK, now you've tried that.

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‫Here are my examples.

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‫So for number one, I said in both girls and boys, bike riding was more popular than skateboarding

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‫or rollerblading.

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‫And for the second sentence structure, more boys preferred playing computer games than girls of the

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‫same age.

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‫Now, there's lots of different information you could describe.

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‫So well done for trying that out.

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‫Now, let's move on to our next section in this lesson.

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‫Apart from making comparisons, you will also need to describe trends, especially when it comes to

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‫charts and graphs.

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‫Here's a sentence structure that is super useful for you when describing trends.

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‫The structure here is there was plus an adjective and a noun then and now, of course, for the adjective

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‫and noun, you can use a number of synonyms.

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‫But I'll show you a few examples.

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‫Now, from 2002 to 2004, there was a significant rise in enrolments to Causby.

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‫Significant could be replaced with words such as steep or rapid and rise could easily be replaced with

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‫the synonym increase, let's say our second example for describing trends.

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‫Here I will use the same sentence structure to describe a decrease in the trend.

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‫There was a sharp drop in student numbers for Causby between 2002 and 2003.

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‫Again, these are only two examples using the sentence structure of trends that are easily identifiable

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‫on the example bar chart.

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‫I definitely advise you to write down the sentence structures with a few examples of euro, as in the

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‫test, they will be super useful.

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‫Let's move on to the next section.

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‫Now we'll take a look at describing increases and decreases, and this is something that you will almost

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‫definitely have to do when reporting on Alt's writing task one.

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‫The structure I'm going to show you is very simple, and that is a noun phrase followed by a verb and

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‫then an adverb.

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‫If you're not sure what a noun phrase is, the easiest way to explain it is a few words put together

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‫to form a name.

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‫The example here playing music, we aren't talking about doing this thing.

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‫We're naming it as an activity which makes it into a noun.

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‫Phrase is my example.

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‫From 2006 to 2010, playing music climbed steadily to 26 percent of owners using this feature.

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‫Of course, for the verb, an adverb, there are many different synonyms that you could use and you

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‫may remember some from our last lesson on vocabulary.

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‫Let's see another example with some different synonyms used.

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‫Playing games jumped sharply from 2006 to 2008, however, over the following two years, its overall

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‫use declined by one percent.

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‫This sentence structure of noun, phrase, verb, an adverb is really useful and I'd like you to try

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‫and use it to describe this.

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‫There may not be one exact correct answer for this, as you could use a number of different noun phrases,

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‫verbs or adverbs, try and describe it.

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‫And if you can also say what they say happened between pause the video now and write your example sentence.

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‫OK, as I said, there is not one definitive answer for this, but I'm going to show you a few examples

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‫that I have made.

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‫Shopping online increased significantly between 2006 and 2016.

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‫Did you manage to write something similar to this?

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‫Here is my second example.

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‫Online shopping grew considerably over 10 years from 2006 to 2006 state.

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‫There is a lot of lessons that we could do about grammar, and it could be in itself a huge cause,

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‫but as I said, I wanted to give you ideas and sentence structures that you could use right away, note

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‫them down and practice using them as much as you can, because I'm sure you'll be able to use them in

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‫the writing test.

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‫See you in the next lesson.