IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 flowchart tasks

IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 - flowchart tasks

 

Instructions for teachers

Cut up one set of cards per group of two to four students, without the left-hand column with the numbers etc. The instructions for students below explain how they should use the cards, etc. It can also be done without the X cards to make it easier and quicker.

Instructions for students‑

Use phrases like “Firstly,…” to describe how you should do an IELTS Listening paper on your computer at home, starting with exam-style timed practice and then making sure that you learn something from it.

Put the cards that you are given into order to show the process of doing IELTS Listening at home, starting with timed exam practice. Things done at the same time should be put next to each other. Put things which probably shouldn’t be done to one side. If you get confused, first of all reject the bad ideas and/ or organise the good ideas into three categories: Category 1: near the beginning of the process, Category 2: near the middle of the process, Category 3: near the end of the process.

Read the text below to start checking the order of the cards.

Double check the order as a class or with an un-cut-up copy of the worksheet. Steps with the same number happen at the same time and so should be next to each other. Steps with “X” shouldn’t be done and so should be put to one side.

Ask about steps and/ or explanations in the text you disagree with, don’t understand, etc, then highlight useful phrases for talking about processes/ explaining flowcharts.

Without looking at the complete text, fill each gap on the following page with one word. Some words not in the original text may also be possible.

Use these mixed answers to help with the gapfill task. Some can be used more than once, and some gaps have more than one answer.

as                                at                                before                          by

during                          flow                             following                      have

having                         in                                move                          next

of                                once                           secondly                     soon

stage                           step                            subsequent(ly)  that

the                              then                             when                           while/ whilst

Check your answers with the original text. Other words may be possible in the gaps, so check with your teacher if you wrote something different.

Use similar phrases to describe other processes like:

• doing IELTS Writing at home
• doing IELTS Reading at home
• the process shown on an IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 flowchart

Cards to cut up/ Suggested answers

Ask about steps above, explanations in the text etc, you have doubts about.

Use this text to check the order of the cards.

The flowchart shows the process by which candidates should use IELTS on computer Listening tests at home. There are twenty six steps in the process. I will describe steps before the speakers begin speaking, move onto answering under exam conditions, and finally explain the stages after the recording finishes.

Before starting IELTS Listening practice, candidates should warm up with some more pleasant English listening. After they have applied their earphones etc and made sure that the sound is operating correctly, they are ready to start actual IELTS practice by listening to everything that is said about how to do the test. When they are permitted to turn to the first part of the test, students should listen carefully for how many questions they will need to answer in the following subsection and read just that part, highlighting vital words in the instructions and then the questions as they do so. The candidate should spend any additional time before the recording starts guessing what kind of information might go in each gap and next how the words in the question might be rephrased in the listening text.

Once the recording starts, you should listen out for the answers to the first two or three questions, to make sure that missing one answer doesn’t completely throw you. After you have heard what seems to be the answer, it is still best not to forget about that question in case something with the same or a contradictory meaning is added. Especially if you don’t catch the actual answer but want to remember what you did understand, you can use the special buttons to leave a flag and/ or a note, or do something similar on a piece of paper.

As soon as you have written something for each question, turn to the next subsection. This continues in the same way step by step until the whole audio has ended, at which stage you should spend all of the next a hundred and twenty seconds transferring and checking your answers. Checking consists of completing questions that you skipped, checking anything you have marked for further thought, and confirming the grammar of the answers you have written, in that order.

The additional two minutes after the recording would mark the end of the procedure in the real exam. However, at home you should go on to listen another time and/ or to read the tapescript. Having partially checked your answers that way, you are then ready to look at the actual answer key or at your automatically checked answers. During this stage, you should make sure that you understand why any wrong answers are not correct. Subsequently, you should make sure that you learn something from the process by firstly listening again to difficult parts, secondly reading the transcript again with a dictionary, and after that simultaneously listening and reading. Shadow reading is also recommended, but only for shorts extracts of particularly important and tricky speech. In the following step, all new vocabulary from the transcript must be learnt by heart. The final stage is listening again to remind yourself of the language that you learnt and how it was said. (528 words)

Double check the order with an un-cut-up copy of the worksheet. Steps with the same number happen at the same time and so should be next to each other. Steps with “X” shouldn’t be done and so should be put to one side.

Ask about steps and/ or explanations in the text you disagree with, don’t understand, etc.

IELTS flowchart task essay open cloze

Without help, fill each gap below with one word. Words not above may also be possible.

The __________chart shows the process _________ which candidates should use IELTS on computer Listening tests at home. There are twenty six steps _________ the process. I will describe steps before the speakers begin speaking, ______________ onto answering under exam conditions, and finally explain the stages after the recording finishes.

____________ starting IELTS Listening practice, candidates should warm up with some more pleasant English listening. After they ___________ applied their earphones etc and made sure that the sound is operating correctly, they are ready to start actual IELTS practice by listening to everything that is said about how to do the test. _____________ they are permitted to turn to the first part of the test, students should listen carefully for how many questions they will need to answer in the following subsection and read just that part, highlighting vital words in the instructions and then the questions ________________ they do so. The candidate should spend any additional time before the recording starts guessing what kind of information might go in each gap and _____________________ how the words in the question might be rephrased in the listening text.

_______________ the recording starts, you should listen out for the answers to the first two or three questions, to make sure that missing one answer doesn’t completely throw you. After you have heard what seems to be the answer, it is still best not to forget about that question in case something with the same or a contradictory meaning is added. Especially if you don’t catch the actual answer but want to remember what you did understand, you can use the special buttons to leave a flag and/ or a note, or do something similar on a piece of paper.

As _________________ as you have written something for each question, turn to the next subsection. This continues in the same way step ____________ step until the whole audio has ended, _________ which stage you should spend all of the next a hundred and twenty seconds transferring and checking your answers. Checking consists _________________ completing questions that you skipped, checking anything you have marked for further thought, and confirming the grammar of the answers you have written, _______ that order.

The additional two minutes after the recording would mark __________ end of the procedure in the real exam. However, at home you should go on to listen another time and/ or to read the tapescript. __________ partially checked your answers that way, you are ___________ ready to look at the actual answer key or at your automatically checked answers. _____________ this stage, you should make sure that you understand why any wrong answers are not correct._______________ , you should make sure that you learn something from the process by firstly listening again to difficult parts, ____________ reading the transcript again with a dictionary, and after ____________ simultaneously listening and reading. Shadow reading is also recommended, but only for shorts extracts of particularly important and tricky speech. In the __________________ step, all new vocabulary from the transcript must be learnt by heart. The final ______________ is listening again to remind yourself of the language that you learnt and how it was said.

Use the mixed words on the first page above to help, then check as a class or below.

Suggested answers

The (flow)chart shows the process by which candidates should use IELTS on computer Listening tests at home. There are twenty six steps in the process. I will describe steps before the speakers begin speaking, move onto answering under exam conditions, and finally explain the stages after the recording finishes.

Before starting IELTS Listening practice, candidates should warm up with some more pleasant English listening. After they have applied their earphones etc and made sure that the sound is operating correctly, they are ready to start actual IELTS practice by listening to everything that is said about how to do the test. When/ Once they are permitted to turn to the first part of the test, students should listen carefully for how many questions they will need to answer in the following subsection and read just that part, highlighting vital words in the instructions and then the questions as/ while/ whilst they do so. The candidate should spend any additional time before the recording starts guessing what kind of information might go in each gap and next/ then/ subsequently how the words in the question might be rephrased in the listening text.

Once/ When the recording starts, you should listen out for the answers to the first two or three questions, to make sure that missing one answer doesn’t completely throw you. After you have heard what seems to be the answer, it is still best not to forget about that question in case something with the same or a contradictory meaning is added. Especially if you don’t catch the actual answer but want to remember what you did understand, you can use the special buttons to leave a flag and/ or a note, or do something similar on a piece of paper.

As soon as you have written something for each question, turn to the next subsection. This continues in the same way step by step until the whole audio has ended, at which stage you should spend all of the next a hundred and twenty seconds transferring and checking your answers. Checking consists of completing questions that you skipped, checking anything you have marked for further thought, and confirming the grammar of the answers you have written, in that order.

The additional two minutes after the recording would mark the end of the procedure in the real exam. However, at home you should go on to listen another time and/ or to read the tapescript. Having partially checked your answers that way, you are then ready to look at the actual answer key or at your automatically checked answers. During/ In this stage, you should make sure that you understand why any wrong answers are not correct. Subsequently/ Next, you should make sure that you learn something from the process by firstly listening again to difficult parts, secondly reading the transcript again with a dictionary, and after that simultaneously listening and reading. Shadow reading is also recommended, but only for shorts extracts of particularly important and tricky speech. In the following/ next/ subsequent step, all new vocabulary from the transcript must be learnt by heart. The final stage/ step is listening again to remind yourself of the language that you learnt and how it was said.