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WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The flow chart below shows how chewing gum is made. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

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The diagram (1).. he (1).......shows..........how chewing gum is produced. (2)...............................the (3).............. (3)............................... of gum are put into a (4)...............................and 5)...........................until they form a single mass. This is (6)...............................strained until all of the (7)....................... has been eliminated. (8)................................ the gum is (9)...............................into another (10)...............................and the desired flavorings, sweeteners and softeners are (11)............... .................This (12)...............................is blended until all of the (13)...............................are mixed together. The gum then (14)...............................to a different (15)..........................which uses rollers to flatten out the gum. (16)...........................the thin sheets of gum are cut into rectangular (17)...............................and broken into separate (18)......................... (19)..............................the gum (20)...............................along a conveyor belt where it is enclosed in packaging ready for distribution.

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You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagram below shows how fruit is canned. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

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Passive:___________________________________________________________ ve:______ They sterilize the cans using a special heating process.

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Passive:___________________________________________________________ They check the fruit before storage and they reject any poor quality fruit Passive:___________________________________________________________

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Sample Answer The diagram shows the process of canning fresh fruit. First the fruit is picked from trees by hand. It is then transported to the cannery by large trucks. At the cannery the fruit is washed and quality checked, and any poor quality fruit is rejected. The good quality fruit is put into cold storage. When it is ready for canning the fruit is weighed and graded. The grading ensures that fruit of a similar size is kept together. After this the fruit is peeled and the cores are removed. It is then sliced into the required sizes and put into cans. Juice or syrup is also added to the cans. Once the cans have been filled they are sealed and cooked over heat to ensure that the cans are sterilized. When the cans are cool, a label is attached and they are placed into storage. torage.

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The canned fruit is now ready to be despatched to supermarkets and sold.

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WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagram below shows the process of making chocolate. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

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Exercise Read the description of how chocolate is made. Add the relative clauses (a-i) to the text in the gaps and write in the appropriate relative pronoun where, which or that. Chocolates varied flavours, colours, shapes and textures result from different recipe traditions 1.........g....... The essential ingredient in all chocolate is cocoa, which is made from the cream-coloured beans 2................ The cacao tree, 3 ................ produces a fruit about the size of a small pineapple, 4................

The dried beans are then transported to factories 6................ The shells are then removed and an contains a high percentage of fat (cocoa butter), 8................ The solid block of cocoa that d sugar and other flavour such as vanilla to make the different kinds of chocolate. s

the beans are ground into chocolate liquor - a thick brown liquid 7................. This li ... liquor

remains is then made into a powder 9..............., or is mixed back with some of the co cocoa butter,

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WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagram below shows how banana chips are made. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

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The flowchart sho he shows how banana chips 1.............are made......... First, the bananas 2............ .......................by a special machine and then they 3 .................................... in water. Next the ............ clean ba bananas 4 .................................... into a chipping machine where they 5......................... ..........into thin chips. After this they 6..................................... Once they are dry the banana i chips 7....................................in hot oil in large deep fat fryers. The cooked banana chips 8....................................from the fryers using a special sieve which allows all of the oil to drain off. The banana chips 9.................................... (then) to cool. When they have reached the right temperature, spices 10....................................for extra taste. Finally the banana chips are packaged ready to 11.................................... around the world and 12.......................

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Sample Answer (Band 9) The process by which bricks are manufactured for the building industry can be outlined in seven consecutive steps. First the raw material, clay, which lies just below the surface of soil in certain clay-rich areas has to be dug up by a digger. ks c Then the lumps of clay are placed on a metal grid, in order to break up the big chunks of clay into much smaller ones, which fall through the metal grid onto a roller, whose motion further re is then either formed in moulds or cut into brick-shaped pieces by means of a wire cutter.

d hours These fresh bricks are then kept in a drying oven for at least 24 and a maximum of 48 h hours, cks re transfe several dozens if not hundreds of bricks at a time. The dried bricks are then transferred to a a so-called kiln, another type of high temperature of 200 870 - 1300 hours in a cooling chamber. 0 - 980 , then at a high temper te temperature of own e . This process is followed by cooling down the finished bricks fo 48 to 72 for

nd ome har the Once the bricks have been cooled down and have become hard, they get packaged and uilding g stora delivered to their final destination, be it a building site or storage. -224 words-

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s re, segregates the bits of clay. Sand and water are added to make a homogenous mixture, which

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WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagrams below show the process of how uranium is used in the production of nuclear power. featur Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant You should write at least 150 words.

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Sample answer This diagram describes how uranium is mined, processed, used and then discarded. Uranium is found under the ground and so it must be mined. Once the mined uranium has been extracted, it is taken to a processing centre. Here the uranium is converted into a form that can be used as a fuel in a nuclear power station. To do this, the uranium is changed into a gas and enriched before it is reformed as U-235 fuel pellets. The fuel pellets are then used in nuclear power stations to provide up to 7 billion kilowatts of watts

electricity from just one station. After the fuel has been used for about four years it is remove removed from the power station and stored. Some of the used fuel can be re-processed and re-used in i a power station to produce more electricity.

Finally, old stored fuel that cannot be re-processed is put into stainless steel con nless containers and then buried deep in the ground.

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WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagrams below show the life cycle of the silkworm and the stages in the production of silk cloth. featur Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant You should write at least 150 words.

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Sample Answer The first diagram shows that there are four main stages in the life of the silkworm. First of all, eggs are produced by the moth and it takes ten days for each egg to become a silkworm larva that feeds on mulberry leaves, this stage lasts for up to six weeks until the larva produces a cocoon of silk thread around itself. After a period of about three weeks, the adult moths eventually emerge from these cocoons life cycle begins again. The cocoons are the raw material used for the production of silk cloth. Once selected, they are boiled in water and the threads can be separated in the unwinding stage. Each thread is s used to produce cloth in the weaving stage.

Overall, the diagrams show that the cocoon stage of the silkworm can be used to produc silk e produce cloth through a very simple process.

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WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagram below shows how a water tower works. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

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Exercise Study the diagram and then complete the description below. Choose answers from the box. A water tower 1..........................a large tank (D), which 2.......................... water and which 3..........................high enough above ground to provide the necessary level of water pressure for a community. The tank 4..........................to the water system's primary feeder pipes (C) by a 5..........................pipe. Drinking water for a town is first treated in a water treatment plant (A) to 6..........................sediment and bacteria. A pump (B) then 7..........................it via the primary feeder pipes to the customers (E). If the community demands more water than the

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WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagram below shows how a thermos flask works. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

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Sample Answer The thermos flask is used to keep the liquids it contains at the same temperature. Its most common use is to keep hot drinks, for example coffee, hot but you can also use it to keep things like milk cold. A thermos flask is a cylinder-shaped object between 30 and 40 cm high. On the inside is a flask made of glass. There is nearly no air inside this glass so it is a very poor conductor. In addition, the glass is silvered, which reduces infrared radiation. This vacuum flask is surrounded by another cylinder made of metal or plastic, which protects the fragile glass inside. s This is taken off and used to drink the liquid from. Some heat escapes from the cap but the special design of the thermos flask means that liquid maintains its temperature for several or hours. (161 words)

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WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagrams below show some principles of house design for cool and for warm climate. featur Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant You should write at least 150 words.

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Sample Answer The diagrams illustrate how climate influences the design of houses. It can be noticed that the roof, windows and building materials of houses in cool and warm climates are considerably different. In cool climates special attention is given to the use of building materials that can store heat, and insulation is used on the outside of the house to ouse avoid heat loss. Careful positioning of the building and large windows facing ws winter sunlight also assist to passively heat the house. The roof has an extreme angle to assist with snow runoff and roof overhang does not hang g no interfere with sunlight. proach. Insulat ach. an Homes in warm climates require the opposite approach. Insulation and he un Win reflective roof material aim to keep heat from the sun out. Windows are y e d placed under a wider roof overhang so that they are shaded from dire light direct ove hous in the day and so that cooler night air can move through the house when the windows are open.

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WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagram below shows how river speed affects the pollution in the river. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

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Sample Answer The diagram shows the ways in which the pollution in the river is affected by river speed. In the upper stream of the river where water moves fast, pollutants from both industry and farming tend to float and are carried downstream by the rushing river water. Because of the fast speed at which these pollutants travel in the river, they cannot reach the bottom and therefore become part of the silt on the river bed. ollutants ts At the mouth of the river, however, due to the low speed at which they travel, pollutants from e Pollutants from industry are obviously heavier and therefore can be found at the far side from

e nutrien for mouth where they are absorbed by sea grasses and become part of the food or nutrients fo those plants.

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he r industry and farming are forced to descend and deposit in the mud at the river bottom.

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You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagrams below show how humans and plats interact to produce oxygen and carbon dioxide. featur Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant You should write at least 150 words.

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Sample answer This diagram illustrates the process which occurs when plants and human beings create oxygen and carbon dioxide. Plants make oxygen through a process called photosynthesis. To do this plants need certain elements. Firstly they take in water through their roots from the earth below. Secondly they take in carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air around them. Apart from these they also need to absorb sunlight from the sun above. With water, carbon dioxide and air, plants are able to produce oxygen through photosynthesis.

Humans and animals perform an opposite process. Humans and animals take oxygen into xygen their lungs through breathing. When humans and animals exhale they breathe out carbon t dioxide.

In conclusion, plants, humans and animals provide services for each other. Humans and Huma breathe out, they provide the carbon dioxide that plants need in order to survive. eed -153 words-

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You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagrams below show changes to one university campus between 1985 and the present day. featur Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant You should write at least 150 words.

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Exercise 1 Look at the table below which classifies verbs of change. Complete the table using the words in the box. Some words may be used in more than one column.

Make the size bigger extend

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Make the number bigger increase

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1 2 3 4 5 6 The library has....................significantly. nificantly.

The science blocks have been....................into one science zone. ave been ...............

The car park has been....................and....................by a shuttle bus terminal. ..............

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You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The maps below show the development of Barton Bingham from 1937 to 1995. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main featur features and make comparisons where relevant You should write at least 150 words.

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Fill in the blanks with words below. As (1) ______________ from the maps, the area of Barton Bingham (2)_____________ significantly between 1937 and 1995. The road bisecting the area (3) ____________ and on both sides various developments (4)_____________. On the north side, the manor house (5) ____________ into a health farm and part of the surrounding scrubland and adjacent woodland (6) ____________ a golf course. The area immediately adjacent to ent the road (7)____________ to housing along its entire length.

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You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The maps below show the changes which took place in the resort town of Palm Grove which is 450 kilometers from the nearest city from 1950 to 2000. in eatures Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

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Sample answer: The three maps representing changes in Palm Grove between 1950 and 2000 show that the town became a resort as accessibility from the outside improved. In 1950, Palm Grove was a small fishing village with few hotels. It lies 450 kilometers from the nearest city. Since the only access to the village in 1950 was by a two-lane road, most tourists probably didn't want to make the long trip to get there. By 1975, a new four-lane highway had brought changes to Palm Grove. It was still a s et fishing village, but it appears that the new road made it easier for tourists to get there. Several new hotels had been built for them along the beach. is tly changed By 2000, an airport had been built just outside Palm Grove. This apparently chang ed nd fishin the town into a resort. The hotel district was greatly expanded and the fishing docks e indust were removed. Probably most local residents now work in the tourist industry. 157 words

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You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The map below is of the town of Garlsdon. A new supermarket (S) is planned for the town. The map shows two possible sites for the supermarket. in eatures Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

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Model answer The first potential location (S1) is outside the town itself, and is sited just off the main road to the town of Hindon, lying 12 kms to the north-west. This site is in the countryside and so would be able to accommodate a lot of car parking. This would make it accessible to shoppers from both Hindon and Garlsdon who could travel by car. As it is also close to the railway line linking the who towns to Cransdon (25 km to the south-east), a potentially large number of shoppers would also be able to travel by ravel train. In contrast, the suggested location, S2, is right in the town centre, which would be hich good for local residents. Theatrically the store could be accessed by road or rail from d the surrounding towns, including Bransdon, but as the central area is a no-traffic z zone, zone cars would be unable to park and access would be difficult. Overall, neither site is appropriate for all the towns, but for customers in Cran Cransdon, r Cr Hindon and Garlsdon, the out-of-town site (S1) would probably offer more advantages. (179 words)

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