IELTS Writing Task 1: diagram overview

After the introduction, I tell my students to write an overview of the information shown on the chart. When the chart shows numbers, we look for the highest, lowest, biggest change, overall trend etc.

But how do you write an overview of a diagram that doesn't show numbers?

Here are some things you could put in a process diagram overview:

• The total number of steps in the process.
• Where the process begins and ends.

And this is what you could write about for a comparing diagram:

• The total number of changes or differences.
• The main changes or differences.
• The main similarities or what doesn't change.

Comments

[Jack]

hi Simon,

i found that it is really hard to illustrate the things like , something like the words that use to describe the topic things, for example,In 1985, Canada was about 19 million tonnes. we can not use this description.

do you have any suggestions in improving this?
Thanks.

[syeede]

very good lesson about two main types of processes .thank u Simon.