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Word choice and word formation

Get to know the kind of errors you often make (for example, ie ↔ ei), and look out for them. When you have finished writing your Task 1 answer, go back and check for your common errors.
The next activity shows some common errors that candidates make.

Activity 4.17

Spot the common IELTS errors.
  1. The chart shows the economical growth in a certain country.
    Answer

    economical > [economic]
  2. There was an increase of unemployment between 2007 and 2008.
    Answer

    increase of > [increase in]

  3. At first, the water goes into the channel.
    Answer

    At first > ['first']. 'At first' means 'used to, but not any more'.

  4. Nearly twice many men as women bought widgets.
    Answer

    twice many > [twice as many]

  5. Despite the proportion of music sales decreased, this was still the biggest area of spending for teenagers.
    Answer

    Despite > ['Although']. 'Despite' is used with a noun phrase: 'Despite the decrease in the proportion of music sales ...'.

  6. Third world nations had lower literacy rates than first world nations.
    Answer

    Third world nations ... first world nations > [It is more common to say 'developing' and 'developed/ industrialised'.]

  7. The table shows the average rainfall in London, Berlin and Paris. Every city has its highest rainfall in winter.
    Answer

    Every city > [For small numbers, use 'each'.]

  8. The graph shows that news programs had the most viewers everyday.
    Answer

    everyday > ['every day']. 'Everyday' means 'normal' or 'boring'.

Activity 4.18

Assess this sample answer.
Task: The following diagrams show how goods were transported in a European country, in three different periods.
The given pie charts show the information about the amount of the goods transported in a European country in the three different time periods and shows that the cannals changed from most popular to unpopular. Railways changed from least popular to most popular, but roads did not very much change.
The level of goods transported by canals became very less very quickly, from 68 per cent in 1800, to 30 per cent in 1850, to 15 per cent in 1900. On the other hand, using railways increased a very much between 1800 (2 per cent] and 1850 (50 per cent). and then increased more to 70 per cent in 1900.
Roads showed a decerasing trend during the time period but not dramaticaly as the other transports. As can be seen from the infomation shown, roads were 30 per cent of transport in the beginning of 1800 and 20 per cent in 1850 and 15 per cent at the ending of 1900. To sum up, it is obvious that the most popular kind of goods transported it was canals and then railways.

Lexical resource Yes/no Examples
Does it use a wide variety of vocabulary, including phrasal verbs, academic words, and collocations? no
Answer

Make it better by:
1. Replacing a repeated word with a synonym (2 words)
2. Replacing a normal word with a useful phrase or idiom 12 words}

Are most words spelled correctly?
Not sure? Check by typing the answer on your computer and then using the spellcheck function.		 yes
Answer

but there are some spelling mistakes.
Make it better by:
3. correcting the spelling 14 words)

Answer

1. Popular > prominent, widespread, prevalent Increased > grew, rose
2. became very less very quickly > plummeted, dove, plunged increased a lot > surged, skyrocketed, boomed
3. cannals > canals
decerasing > decreasing
dramaticaly > dramatically
infomation > information

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