Academic Task 1 takeaways

Describing a process – Maple Syrup Listening

This Part 4 Listening will also help with describing a process – how maple syrup is produced.

You often need to transform countries to nationalities (nouns to adjectives e.g. France – French) in Academic Task 1 and Speaking.

‘Twice as many’ is a high-level structure but beware of these common mistakes.

How to use ‘majority’ and minority’ in a sentence

‘That of’ and ‘Those of’ are great ways of avoiding repetition, especially in Task 1. Here are a few common mistakes.

Learn how to decrease your thinking time speed up your writing/speaking fluency by learning words that commonly go together.

It is important to be clear about what exactly the graph is showing. Here are some examples.

‘Which’ can be misused and overused – here are some examples and how to fix them.

‘The more..the more/less’ is a useful way of describing trends that happen at the same time.