Name: IELTSのライティング。数字と円グラフ (IELTS Writing: Numbers and Pie Charts)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:33:48.000Z
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Hi there. My name is Emma, and in today's video, I am going to talk

a lot about the IELTS test, specifically writing task one.

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I'm going to teach you about a certain thing

you might see on the IELTS, and that's a pie chart. I'm going to explain what a pie chart

is, and ways to talk about pie charts in order to improve your vocabulary mark for the IELTS.

Many students get really, really confused when they see graphs on the IELTS, and they

get really confused trying to talk about numbers, specifically. So, in this video, I'm also

going to talk about: How do we describe numbers when we're looking at pie charts?

How do we describe percentages? You know, and how can we

The first thing I want to do is talk about: What is a pie chart?

So, I have here three different types of graphs.

Three different graphs you might see on the IELTS, in the

writing section, in the very first part of the writing section. Okay? You might see a

picture like this, like this, or like this. So, one of these looks like a pie, something

you eat. Which one do you think looks the most like pie?

This is what we are going to be talking about today. We can call it either a "pie chart"

or a "pie graph". Both are correct. You might also see this one, this one is called

a line graph; or you might see this, which is called a bar graph.

So, let me write that on the board. So, "pie chart", "line graph", and "bar graph".

a diagram, or maybe even a table on the IELTS. But for today, we are only going to be focusing

Okay, so what is a pie chart? A pie chart shows us percentages. Okay? So, if we look

down here, I have here what I spend my money on. Okay? I want you to imagine each month,

all the money I make, all my salary, this is what I spend it on.

I spend some of it on rent, I spend some of it on food,

I spend some of it on transport or transportation,

and I spend some of it on fun. Okay? So, on the IELTS, you might have to describe something

like this. It might be more complicated. Sometimes you might actually have two pie graphs or

pie charts that you might have to compare and describe, but in this case, let's start

So, I want you to imagine you're writing the IELTS, and you've been told to describe this

pie chart. What are you going to say about it? Okay?

Well, the very first thing you should do is you should think about: What does it all mean?

how much percent is each thing? Okay? So, for example, for cost of living, how much

is this? What size does this look like? Although we can't be sure, because I'm not the best

artist and this is not a perfect circle, I would say this is about 50%.

Okay? And this, what does it look like to you? Maybe 25%.

So, food is around 25%. Transport we might

And fun, maybe 10%. Although, we're not sure. So, on the IELTS

you might see something like this. You might actually have the percentages written, so

you already know what it is, or you might actually have numbers. Okay? So, this might

actually be money, and so it might actually say, like, $500 to rent, $200 to food, and

so forth. Okay, but the first thing to do is really think about: What are the percentages, here?

Okay, so to begin a sentence when we're talking about the pie chart, these are three different

sentences that are very great... Really, really good sentences to use on the IELTS when you're

The first one is: "According to the chart", you can also say:

"We can see from the chart", or "We can see from the pie chart", "The chart shows that",

okay? So these are good ways to open up the sentence, and then to actually talk about

Okay, so we're now going to talk a little bit about: How do we talk about percentages?

So, I want you, again, to look at rent. We decided this is about 50%. So, which of these

three ways can I write this on the IELTS? Should I write it: "fifty percent", should

I write it "fifty per cent", with a space, should I write it "50%" as a number, or should

I write it as "half", because 50% is half the total?

What do you think is the best way to write it?

Well, the truth is all of these are good. Okay? You will see percent written

as one word, and also two words; both of these are fine. You can write it as a number, or

you can also write it as half. These are all great ways to write about pie charts. So,

let's get a little bit more into how to talk about numbers and pie charts.

Okay, so let's look at some good sentences you can use when describing numbers and percents.

So, again, we have the same pie chart. We have rent at 50%, food is about a quarter,

transportation is about 15%, and fun is at about 10%. So, I've written up some sentences

to describe rent. Okay? So, what I can say is: "Rent makes up half of the living expenses."

And notice the verb I use, here. "Makes up", okay? So, this is a phrasal verb, "makes up"

is great to use when you're talking about pie charts. If I wanted to talk about food,

I could say: "Food makes up 25% of the living expenses.",

"Transport makes up 15% of the living expenses." Okay?

We can also change the sentence around, so that instead of "half" being in the middle,

we start with the percent. "Half of the living expenses are rent." So, this is essentially

the same sentence, but reversed. "Rent makes up half of the living expenses.",

"Half of the living expenses are rent." We can also say: "Rent accounts for 50% of the total",

or "50% of the living expenses". So, again, we have a really, really nice verb that's

great whenever you're describing a pie chart: "accounts for". It means the exact same as

"makes up", okay? Could I change this to "half"? Yes. Could I write: "fifty percent", not using

numbers, but with letters? Yes, I could spell out "fifty percent". It's all the same; it

There is, however, one thing you should be aware of. In English, we do not like to start

sentences with numbers. So, for example: "50% of the living expenses is rent." This is...

This is not good. We don't like to start out with a number.

It would be better to actually write it out. Okay?

Just like that. Okay, excellent. So, again, these are great sentences

to use when you're writing about pie charts.

So, now let's look at some ways to talk about numbers. We've already talked about 50%, we've

talked about how it can be called half, and how... The different spellings of 50%. So,

now, let's look at some other different ways to talk about percents. I have down here the

word "a third". So, if this is my pie chart, a third-there are three pieces-would be about

this, which is around 30 to 35% is a third. Okay?

I can also talk about "a quarter", which would be about 25%. Okay? If we looked up here,

food is about a quarter. We can also talk about "two-thirds", this is where it gets

a little bit confusing. So, a third is, like I said, we have one out of three. Here we

have two out of three, which is about 66%. So, two-thirds would look like... One-third,

two-third. Okay? So, this is one-third and this is two-thirds.

When we talk about quarters, we can also talk about three quarters, where instead of talking

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