
Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and tips and do the exercises.
Tips
- Start by saying what information is shown. If you are writing in an exam, try to avoid repeating the same wording as the question, e.g. The table illustrates some interesting facts about some of the world's most popular languages to learn.
- In the second paragraph give an overview of the most important features of the information.
- Be selective and choose the key observations and trends. You don't have to write about every single detail.
- Divide your observations into paragraphs about different aspects of the data. A concluding paragraph is not always necessary.
- Don't use your own general knowledge to give reasons for the data or to add more information than is shown. The question only requires you to summarise and report the data in the table.
- Use a variety of structures for:
- making comparisons, e.g. slightly more than, by far the highest, as … as, compared to, double the number of, correlation between
- approximating, e.g. nearly, roughly, almost
- stating what you are referring to, e.g. in terms of … , as for … , of those given.
Discussion
Language level
Advanced: C1
Comments
If I am 100 percent confident and fluent in English, then I would like to learn the Arabic language.
In-home I was raised up Russian and Uzbek Languages, and then later English. But in my career path is the most useful language would be English. I am in high respect for English-speaking countries.
Please help me to start learning english!
I want to do IELTS for CSC Scholarship and according to a guide IELTS is required in top Universities of China
But, I do not know where I should start, plz help me
Hi Phoin Lawi,
Welcome to LearnEnglish! Have a look at this page for information about our IELTS preparation courses: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/IELTS
Best wishes,
Jonathan
The LearnEnglish Team
I would like to learn French apart from English.
I would like to learn German language beside the English. Because Germany os a great country to visit , study and live.
I'm from Barcelona, my mother tongues are two; Spanish and Catalan.
I'm learning English, and I would love to learn French too.
my native language is Arabic and I love it so much it is an attractive language in every side .
besides english language l would like to learn french in order to help my son in his homeworks because l am facing difficults in it.
My native language is Spanish. I am actually learning another language besides English, it is Italian. My level on it is lower than my English knowledge because I have been studying it just for 7 months. The next language I would like to learn is French since I love romance languages, though Russian is always on my mind too, cyrillic alphabet is very interesting to me.
Apart from English, I would like to learn one of the Latin languages, probably Spanish. My experience in learning French proved me that Latin languages are harder to learn compared to English, at least for me. In any way, as a person who likes travelling, communicating with people of all nations and learning of other cultures I think learning Spanish can help me a lot in achieving my goals.
Indeed, learning about other cultures is not the only motivation for me to learn Spanish. While listening to the dialogues and conversations between Spanish spoken people I found the accent and the pronunciations very interesting. I feel a great amount of emotion is embedded into this language. This further motivates me to learn this language. Any way, I have no free time these days to learn Spanish. Hence, it will stay as a future plan!
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