task1_memorise_addendum

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Task 1 — Addendum: Structures from the Playbook Samples

Additions to the memorise list. Correct forms only.

1. Correlative comparative ("the more X, the more Y")

The younger the age group, the more likely they were to visit.

Pattern: The [comparative], the [comparative]. - The larger the city, the higher the cost of housing. - The longer the training, the greater the salary.

One of the highest-value complex structures available in Task 1. It compresses a whole trend into a single clause, and it reads as deliberate range rather than decoration. Worth having ready for any chart where one variable moves with another.

2. Describing an anomaly — when one item breaks the pattern

broke the overall pattern the same anomaly appears here do not follow this trend as neatly with the exception of runs counter to the general trend is the outlier

Most charts have one category that doesn't behave like the rest. Naming it explicitly is a Task Achievement marker — it shows selection and analysis rather than transcription. You already did this instinctively with Oceania's missing over-cultivation bar and with the "no clear correlation" observation on the climate table.

3. Range language — for evenly distributed data

ranging from X to Y percentages ranged from 34% to 46% with the other three activities between 38% and 42%

Use when several categories cluster close together and listing each one individually would be repetitive. Solves the problem of a paragraph turning into a list.

4. Small-value emphasis

a mere 6 TWh practically zero just 3.2 times on average appealed to only 8%

Useful when a value is genuinely tiny — these carry the emphasis that "negligible" was doing wrongly at 3.3%.

5. Age and group phrasing

those aged between 15 and 24 those aged 55 and over the one- to two-year-olds (note the hanging hyphen) the three- to four-year-olds cinema-goers (hyphenated compound)

6. Linking two sources in one task

The accompanying table confirms this trend. The same pattern appears in the second chart. The table adds detail to this picture.

7. NEW FORMAT — bar chart + table in one task

The playbook's first sample is a bar chart and a table together, describing related data. This is a real Task 1 variant you have not yet practised.

Structure that works: - Intro: paraphrase both sources in one sentence — "The bar chart and table provide data on X, together with Y." - Overview: one combined trend covering both, not one sentence per source. - Body 1: the first source. - Body 2: the second source, explicitly linked back — "The accompanying table confirms this trend."

The trap: writing two unconnected mini-reports. The two sources are given together because they relate; the link sentence at the start of body 2 is what earns the Coherence mark.