Task 1 chart theme structure and high score template
This series, written for Yassy’s Pre-Assumption Review Notes, consists of two volumes: (i) Big Papers, Task 2 . Four Type Structures and Templates, (ii)** Small Papers, Task 1** (this paper). Applicable to Academic.
Contents
- Overview 先行：小作文最重要的规则
- 四段式结构
- 正文段：数据怎么分组
- 词汇套件（趋势 / 比较 / 时间）
- 时态规则
- 完整范文一篇（逐段批注）
- 流程图与地图题变体
- 六类常见错误
- 配套资料
- 更多题型范文库（5 篇）
I. Overview First: the most important rule of small writing
Task 1 has only 20 minutes, but it’s completely different from the big one -** It’s not an opinion, it’s “Do you see what the chart says”?
Task Achivement has a clear threshold for small writings:
** There are no articles on overview, Task Achievement can only reach 5 points. **
What is overview?** Put in two words the most important fact of the entire picture** — general trends, greatest comparisons, most prominent features. It does not describe specific numbers, it does “summary”.
- Line chart: Does the whole rise or drop? Which country/class is the lowest?
- Column chart: Where is the greatest gap? What is the overall pattern?
- Pie: Who is the largest/minimum share?
- Table: Who leads, who builds, general patterns?
A practical one:** “My mother only looked at the two words that this picture remembers, overview. ”**
Location of overview: The practice is placed after the beginning of** (paraphrase), before the main paragraph**, or at the end. It is suggested that the second paragraph be placed after the beginning — first seen by the examiner.
II. Four-part structure
| Paragraph | Contents Example (2000–2015 contours of demographic changes) | --- | --- | --- | | * The line graph shows how the activities of Vietnam and Japan changed between 2000 and 2015.* | 2 Overview | 2 sentence overview: + Max. * | 3 Body 1 | data set A | Vietnam segment: from X to Y, phased description of | | 4 Body 2 | data group B (or cross-comparison) | japan segment: slow down + compared to Viet Nam
** Small writing does not end ** — Overview is the end of it. ** “This is good for the economy” = direct deduction of the points of Task Achievement.
Three moves to change the title.
- ** verb change**: show → illustrate / compare / give information about
- ** Term change**: population number of residents；expenditure → amount of money spent
- ** Restructured**:The graph shows A between X and Y → The graph illustrates the changes that occurred in A over the period from X to Y
One word is also rewritten, but the more thorough it is, the higher the vocabulary. Note:** The year, country name, proprietary terminology in the title cannot be changed**.
III. body segment: how to group data
All chart data are not “from head to end” but ** grouped by feature**, with one paragraph:
- ** Grouping of the same group**: up and down; similar grouping, with special exceptions.
- ** Corresponding group**: two sets of direct comparisons (one up and one down) are most informative.
- ** Unequitable grouping**: Headline 2-3 sentence, sentence 1 — ** small values that are not significant compared to key data can be omitted directly** (it is you who dare not trade).
Internal logic for each body segment:** gives the group the overall characteristics, then selects 2-3 data points to support** (start, peak, valley, year of transition) and does not report each year — that is, “report data”, which is the text below 6.
Vocabulary suite (trend/ comparison/ time)
Trends: verbs + nouns
| Trends verbs (old) nouns | --- | --- | --- | | ♪ Up ♪ rose / increased / climbed / grew | a rise / an increase / growth | | Big lift surged / soared / rocketed | a surge / a sharp increase | | Falling. fell / declined / dropped / decreased | a fall / a decline / a drop | | Big drop. plummeted / plunged / halved | a sharp decline | | Steady. remained stable / stayed flat / levelled off | stability / a plateau | | Volatility fluctuated / oscillated | fluctuation | | Peaks/Valves peaked at / reached a low of | a peak of / a trough of |
Degree adverb (with verb)
rose sharply / dramatically / significantly / considerably / slightly / steadily / gradually
From childhood to row:slightly → gradually → steadily → considerably → significantly → sharply → dramatically. ** Never write “increased a lot”** — that’s a five-point vocabulary.
Comparative framework
- roughly twice / three times as many … as …
- X, by contrast / meanwhile / whereas, remained stable
- compared with Y, X …
- X overtook / surpassed Y in [year]
- at just over / under X …
Time expression
- over the period / between 2000 and 2015 / from 2000 onwards
- during the first half of the decade / in the early 2000s
- Future:is projected to / is expected to / is forecast to reach X
Percentage and number not mixed
- “the percentage of X” = ratio;“the number of X” = Number. ** The two are not interchangeable** (the population can be described as falling, percentage can be said to be falling).
V. STATE RULES
| Chart time, time, time. | --- | --- | | Pure past (2010 - 2015) | Past + Future Forecast is projected / expected to | | No time (e.g. pie map static composition)
The replacement of synonyms is equally useful: the same trend is stated in different paragraphs.rose → climbed → grewThe examiner counted your replacements.
VI. COMPREHENSIVE PURPOSE (paragraph by paragraph)
The gramp below shows the number of international studies in three Uniteds in the UK between 2000 and 2015.
The line gramps how many students overrated at three British universities-Oxford, Manchester and Leeds-from 2000 to 2015.
Overviewed the most dramatic growth, overtaking Leeds around 2008 and growing the Gap with Oxford by 2015.
Outford’s early morning from roughly 14,000 in 2000 to about 20,000 in 2015, a migration of around 40 per cent over the fifth years.
The most recent event is found at only 8,000 students-the lower of the three-bits innocently resolved after 2005 and brought across more than 18,000 by 2015.
** Four points** (self-check list):
- (b) The beginning should be rewritten only and not transliterated;
- Overview in the second paragraph, no figures;
- Data “focused”: each body selects only meaningful points, giving a percentage calculation (40 per cent, 100 per cent) to reflect analysis;
- Time uniform past and synonyms replaced rose/ climbed/ overtook/ given.
VII. Flowchart and map theme variant
When considering process or map, the structure remains unchanged, except for a set of terms:
** Flowchart**: four paragraphs = rewriting → overview (a few steps, starting end point)
Required language:firstly / next / subsequently / at the same time (Order adverb),the raw material is fed into…, Passive speech through ()the mixture is heated until it reaches 120°C）、this stage produces…。
Map title: The point is not “What’s on the map” but ** “What’s changed, nothing’s changed.”**
Required language:was demolished / replaced by / converted into / extended northwards / the new road was built alongside…, position expression ()in the north-east corner, adjacent to, to the west of) Overview writes “Maximity Change + Keep the Unchanged Part”.
These two types of issues** have little pressure on synonyms** and the key points are structure and passivity.
VIII. Six Common Errors
- ** There is no overview** — directly top 5 points (see sect. I).
- ** Original title ** — Counting but not counting, LR is also withheld.
- ** Writes opinion** - “This present is required…”
- ** “increased a lot” oral expression** — chart writing is a semi-official text, using the word in the package.
- ** numeric writing** — Read every year, no grouping and trade-offs, Cohen collapses.
- Terrestrial error — Past data are generally now the most common hard wounds.
Supporting information
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X. ANALYSIS OF MORE QUESTIONS (5)
For the travaux préparatoires, see section VI. This section supplements five columns, pies, tables, flow charts, map titles, all by “rewrite Overview Group Body” skeletons.
Bar Chart (Performance)
The chart below shows the percentage of households in five countries that owned at least one car in 2005 and 2015.
The bar chart compares the proportion of households owning at least one car in five countries in 2005 and 2015.
Overall, car ownership rose in every country over the decade, and the gap between the leading and trailing nations narrowed considerably. Germany remained the clear leader throughout, while India stayed at the bottom.
Germany started at roughly 78% and climbed to 86% by 2015. France and Japan followed a similar pattern, increasing from about 65% and 58% to 72% and 66% respectively, so that by the end of the period France had pulled level with Japan’s 2005 figure.
The most dramatic change occurred in India and Brazil, whose figures nearly doubled. Brazilian ownership rose from around 25% in 2005 to 45% a decade later, while India grew from a low base of just 8% to roughly 18%, the fastest relative increase of all five countries. Despite this, India’s level in 2015 was still below the starting points of Germany and France.
Pie Chart
The pie charts below show the sources of energy used in one country in 2000 and 2025.
The two pie charts illustrate how one country’s energy supply was divided among different sources in 2000 and 2025.
Overall, the country shifted clearly away from fossil fuels: oil, which once supplied half of all energy, had been overtaken by renewables, the fastest-growing category, by 2025.
In 2000, the energy mix was dominated by oil at 50%, with coal providing a further 25% and gas 15%. Renewables and nuclear together accounted for the remaining 10%, split evenly between them.
By 2025 the picture had changed substantially. Oil’s share had fallen to 30%, while coal had been almost halved to 13%. Renewables grew more than threefold to 32%, making them the single largest source, and nuclear rose modestly to 8%. Gas remained the steadiest category, dipping only slightly from 15% to 12%.
Table Table
The table below gives information about cinema attendance by age group in one European country in 2020 and 2024.
The table shows the percentage of people in four age groups who went to the cinema at least once a year in 2020 and 2024.
Overall, attendance rose across all age groups, and the pattern by age remained the same: younger adults attended most frequently in both years, while older people attended least.
The 18–24 group was the most regular cinema-goer, rising from 68% to 79%. The 25–39 group, which had the second-highest attendance, increased from 55% in 2020 to 61% four years later, a slower rate of growth than the youngest group.
The two older groups, by contrast, started from much lower levels. Among 40–59-year-olds attendance grew from 34% to 44%, and among those aged 60 and over it climbed from just 17% to 23%. In other words, although every generation attended more in 2024, the gap between the youngest and oldest viewers actually widened slightly.
Flowchart
The diagram below shows how glass bottles are recycled.
The diagram illustrates the process by which used glass bottles are recycled and made ready for reuse.
Overall, the process is a closed loop of five main stages, beginning with the collection of used bottles and ending with new bottles returning to shops, ready to be used again.
The process starts when households and businesses place empty bottles in recycling bins. The bottles are then collected by lorry and taken to a treatment plant, where they are sorted by colour and cleaned, and any labels or metal caps are removed. Next, the clean glass is crushed into small pieces called cullet and loaded into a furnace, where it is heated until it melts at around 1500°C.
The molten glass is then shaped into new bottles in moulds, and once the bottles have cooled and been inspected for defects, they are packed and transported to supermarkets. When consumers buy and finish these bottles, the cycle begins again, which is why bottle recycling is described as a continuous rather than a one-off process.
Map Title Map (Performance)
The maps below show a town centre in 2005 and at present.
The two maps compare the layout of a town centre in 2005 with its present arrangement.
Overall, the town centre has undergone a major transformation: an old industrial area in the south has been redeveloped as a leisure quarter, while the road network has been reorganised to restrict traffic in the centre.
In 2005, the centre consisted mainly of a high street running from east to west, lined with small shops and a post office, and an abandoned factory site to the south. A main road cut across the town centre, carrying traffic past the shops.
Today, several changes are visible. The high street has been converted into a pedestrian zone, with the post office retained and a new library added beside it. The factory site has been demolished and replaced by a park and a small shopping centre, connected to the high street by a new footbridge. Meanwhile, the main road has been rerouted around the edge of the town, freeing the centre from through-traffic, and a new car park has been built on the eastern side.
System navigation: This is subtext (ii) Task 1. The four types of chorus, the PEEL formulae and the text are listed in Series (I) for the essay Task 2.
