WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The bar chart below shows the percentage of Australian men and women in different age
groups who did regular physical activity in 2010.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features,and make com-
parisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
题目分析
1.首先要明白这是一幅动态图还是一幅静态图。通常考生会认为这是一幅静态图,因为图表中时间没有发生改变,但是其实这幅图是动态图,因为数据随年龄变化发生改变。
2.这幅图所描述的对象是什么?整篇文章讨论的对象是 the percentage of Australian men and women doing regular physical activity,所以在描述对象的时候,要注意表达正确,尽量不要出现不完整的情况,但是这对于大部分考生都是难点。
3.主体部分怎么段会比较合理?直接按照男性、女分段写会显得篇章结构更加清晰,可以对两个不同的对象直接进行描述。
4.在描述图表中的具体数据的时候,要注意描述出对象随时间变化的趋势是怎么样的,以及注意代入数据时,并注意数据后面加上百分号。
5.注意在全文中一定要有对整幅图的概述性的信息。
范文
The bar chart below shows the percentage of Australia men and women in a different age group who did regular physical activity in 2010.It´s interesting to the bar chart.
In 15 to 24,Australian men´s percentage of doing regular physical activity is 52.8 and women´s percentage is 47.7.Compare with men and women,men´s percentage is higher than women´s percentage.However,bar´s changed and increasing.After 25-64,men´s percentage are increasing.In 25 to 34,men´s percentage is 42.2.Besides,in 35 to 44,the percentage more decrease until 39.5.After over 45 age,a few increase like 43.7,45.1 and 46.7.However,the percentage couldn´t over 50%.
Then,women´s percentage are increase until 54 age like 52.5,53.3.Although women´s percentage are decrease after 55 age,the percentages are higher than men´s percentages.
In conclusion,men did regular physical activity more than women when they were teenager and mid twenties.
After mid-twenties,however,men´s percentage was decreased and women´s percentage was increase.
考官评语
这篇文章的考生取得了5.0分。下面是考官的评语:
考生的这篇文章抓住了主要的特征,并且文章中也有对题目的概述。段落结构很明显,但是逻辑性不足,有时候比较难把数据和具体的年龄层次进行匹配。词汇比较匮乏,比较依赖题目中出现的词汇,比如,regular physical activity,percentage 等。文章中的材料有限, teenager 和 mid-twenties 的描述不是很准确。尽管文章中有使用比较级的形式(is higher than),但是大部分句式都比较简单,而且不够精准,比如,bar´s changed and interesting,men´s percentage are increasing,the percentage more decrease until。
范文分析
【写作任务完成情况Task Achievement】
存在机械描述的现象,缺乏清晰的数据支持,呈现但不能充分涵盖主要内容的要点。文章中有对图表信息的整体概述,尽管这里面的teenager 和mid twenties描述不是很准确,例如:In conclusion,men did regular physical activity more than women when they were teenager and mid twenties.这里可以进行修改:With the age increasing,there were more men doing regular physical activity than the counterpart of women.
【连贯与衔接Coherence and Cohesion】
文章当中使用了常用连接词,包括compare with与however,来对图表中信息进行衔接,尽管compare with 使用错误,例如:Compare with men and women,men´s percentage is higher than women´s percentage.However,bar´s changed and increasing.After 25-64,men´s percentage are increasing.
【词汇丰富程度Lexical Resource】
文章中使用的词汇不具备多样性,考生没有采用任何的替换词,全篇文章都在使用 percentage,regular physical activities,以及men,women,指代和替换不足显得行文重复。考生缺少对相关词汇的积累,没有在文章中体现词汇的转换,例如:In 15 to 24,Australian men´s percentage of doing regular physical activity is 52.8 and women´s percentage is 47.7。文章中的词汇也需要升级,比如 show 可以替换成indicate和illustrate。
【语法多样性及准确性Grammatical Range and Accuracy】
语法错误相对比较多,包括被动语态使用错误,比如,was decreased,was increase等等,趋势动词不需要变成被动语态,直接使用表明趋势变化就可以。例如:After midtwenties,however,men´s percentage was decreased and women´s percentage was increase.这句话时态不正确,整篇文章的主体段都应该是一般过去时,而不是一般现在时和过去时态交替使用。整篇文章的数据表达都缺少百分号,表达不够准确。例如:Australian men´s percentage of doing regular physical activity is 52.8 and women´s percentage is 47.7.在表达不同的年龄层的时候,使用的是“in 35 to 44”,这样的表达是不精准的,应该使用“in the age group between 35 and 44”或者直接跟在修饰的对象后,比如“ men who aged between 35 and 44”,这样更能体现出考生的用词准确度。
补充词汇
原文词汇
percentage
men
women
increase
decrease
show
可替换词汇
proportion
male
female
climb,go up,grow,ascend
drop,go down,dip,decline
illustrate,indicate,reveal,describe,display