ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1 | Writing an Overview

1. Is the overview important?

2. Which section of the marking criteria says that you need an overview?

3. What is the maximum score you can achieve for Task Achievement if you DON’T have an overview?

4. What information is contained in the overview?

5. The overview should contain lots of numbers to support your trends

6. The overview of a report contains

7. Which of the following sentences about the overview is NOT true?

8. We draw arrows on the exam paper to

9. Which sentence CANNOT be used to describe overall change in a chart?

10. If all the items in the chart have the same trend (for example, they increase) but one item has the opposite trend, which expression can you use?

Rearrange the words to find an expression you could start your overview with.

11. Drag and drop the words in order

12.

Look at the chart below, find the key features and write an overview.

13. The bar chart shows the number of people in 5 continents that lived in urban areas from 1975 to 2000, with a prediction for 2030.

Look at the chart below, find the key features and write an overview.

14. The table below shows the cost of several fresh food products in Britain in three periods of time.

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