Templates for IELTS Task 1
Hello everyone. How are you? After you have established the structures for different types of essays you can work on templates for each of the structures. The advantage of using templates is that it can help you to speed up the writing of your essay; and also help you to increase your score as you have a lower proportion of errors, and also increase your score for vocabulary and grammar because the template has high-level vocabulary and grammar embedded in it. Note that the examiner will not consider this memorised language because this is structural language that is essential to writing an essay. memorised language would be something you have memorised relating to a specific topic that you have memorised from an article or published online essay.

1. Introduction
The line/bar/pie chart(s)/table(s)
+ show(s) / exhibit(s) / give(s) information about / compare + how many __ (the number of) / how much __ (the amount of)+ over a _-year period between __ and __ / between __ and __ / over __ years / over the course of ___ years starting in ___.

2. Overview [ Overall / From an overall perspective ] +
Major trend: there (be) an upward/increase trend in ____ /
____ see(s)/saw an upward/increase trend there (be) a downward/decrease trend in ____/
___ see(s)/saw a downward/decrease trend there (be) a fluctuant trend in ___ / ____ illustrate(s) a wave-like movement
Outstanding features:Highest/lowest:
_____ (be) the most/least popular /
_____ experience(s/d) the highest/lowest figure.
Others:
* The percentage/proportion/number/… of ___ + in __ + double(s/d) / (be) 3, 4, 5, … times higher/less than + the figure of that of ____
(e.g. The number of tourists in New York was three times higher than that of Canada.)
* A new category of ____ (be) shown / appear(s/ed) in the chart for (year).
3. Body 1 Case 1
(you should group the categories with the same OR contrastive trend in a body and the other is in another body)

Case 2
(if no similar/contrastive categories are shown, describe each in turn)
Sentence 1 Looking at the details, the number/ratio/percentage… of ___ start(s/ed) / stand(s) / stood at ___ in (year),
and then rise(s/rose) / decline(s/d) to reach the highest/lowest point of ___ in (year).

Sentence 2 In (year), the figure dip(ped/s) / fall(fell) down significantly / soar(ed/s) / grew considerably to ____.
Sentence 3 A similar/contrastive trend (be) recorded in ____ during the period, which goes(went) up / down by __ from the (year) figure of ___.

(e.g. A similar trend was recorded in the number of tourists in Canada during the period, which went up by 5% from the 2005 figure of 15%.) On the other hand/Besides, ____ begin(s/began) at ___ in (year), after that it rise(s/rose) / reduce(s/d) noticeably/slightly in (year) at ____.
(e.g. On the other hand, LaGuardia began at 35m in 1995, after that it rose remarkably for the next three years, at 46m.)

Sentence 4 ___ was the number/proportion of ___ in (year). In (year), ____ hit(s) the peak/highest point / reach(es/ed) a bottom at ___.

4. Body 2 Sentence 1 The __ year period witness(es/ed) a __ climb/fall in the __, which is(was) __ in (year 1) and ___ in (year 2).

(e.g. The 9 year period witnessed a 9% climb in the percentage of rice produced, which was 35% in 1990 and 44% in 1999.)

OR If we look at ___, it start(s/ed) at ___ in the first year.
(e.g. However, if we look at Newark airport, it started at the lowest point of 16m passengers in the first year.)

Sentence 2 In (year), the figure peak(s/ed) at ___.OR After this point, the trend jump(s/ed) / go(went) down to ___ in (year).

Sentence 3
(if any)
In the last ___ years, the trend remained stable at ____.
OR

In the last __ years, there (be) a wild/mild fluctuation in ___, with the highest and lowest ratio/number shown in (year) at ___ and (year) at ____ respectively.