Task 1 - Flow Chart
Task 1 - Flow Chart
FLOW CHARTS
DIAGRAMS/PROCESSES
How to Understand
the IELTS Flow Chart?
Introduction
Overview
Body Paragraphs
Conclusion
Introduction
Use a single sentence to paraphrase the information given in the question. Don’t
repeat what you have been given. Write a second sentence as an overview —
include the number of stages shown in the process.
Look at the illustration and work out what the stages are and the order that
things happen. This should be fairly obvious; just look for the starting point.
Organize your information clearly and describe each stage. Don’t miss any stages.
You need to put everything in a logical order; so that means using sequence
expressions such as:
First of all… To begin with… And then… After that… Next… Finally
Sometimes the process is more complex, then you may need to also use these words:
The green cakes are sent on to machine A while the blue ones are loaded into the
truck
The papers are then either sent to another examiner for reassessment or they are
stored.
Finally, the finished product is graded and then either boxed or thrown away.
Grammar
Think about time – when things happen, especially in relation to the present time and to
other events. This will give you the verb tenses. For processes, you will probably need the
following tenses:
Make sure you know exactly why we sometimes use an active verb and sometimes a passive
verb. The reason is in the grammatical subject of the sentence. Put the important thing at
the beginning of the sentence – make it the subject. The person (or agent) that does the
action (does the verb) is not always important, hence the passive form.
How to Finish
The final paragraph may be a brief summary of the overall function of what you have just
described. However, you do not need a conclusion as you are not being asked your opinion.
An opinion would be considered irrelevant for this task and could lose you marks.
General
As with the other Task-1 essays, do not include information that is not on the graph, diagram
or chart. No opinions.
VOCABULARY
•• after,
step before
•• prior
stage to
•• to begin with
phase
•• firstly/secondly/finall
to summarise
• y/in the end/lastly
the process consists of
• afterwards/then/late
r/following this/next
• after that
• while/meanwhile
• in the next stage/the
first step is
The flow chart describes the complete aluminum recycling process to obtain
pure aluminum from the scrap. It explains all the stages that waste and alloy
form of aluminum go through to produce aluminum from segregation to
packing stage.
To begin with, the primary process of collecting used scrap aluminum and
aluminum with impurities; they are segregated into pure aluminum scrap
and aluminum with impurities separately.
Both quantities of aluminum are put into two different containers. After
that, there containers are introduced to different coal furnaces burning at a
temperature above 1000 degree Celsius. Once the metal melts to molten
state, metal contained in the pure aluminum container is condensed into
the form of ingots and finally packed.
The flowchart illustrates the various steps that a high school student must follow to enter
university.
Once the high school has been obtained, students need to complete an application for
university entrance. This can be downloaded from the university website. The completed
application should then be sent to the administration.
Applicants receive a reply two weeks later which is provisional acceptance, a rejection or an
acceptance. If a rejection is received, students can either cancel their application altogether or
complete an application for an alternative course and send to the administration office.
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This diagram provides an overview of a domestic central heating
system. It shows how the tank, boiler and pipes ensure a constant
flow of hot water to both the radiators and the taps.
The cold water enters the house and is stored in a water storage
tank in the roof. From there flows down to the boiler, located on
the ground floor of the house.
The boiler, which is fuelled by gas or oil, heats up the water as it
passes through it. The hot water is then pumped round the house
through a system of pipes and flows into the radiators, located in
different rooms. The water circulates through the radiators, which
have small tubes inside them to help distribute the heat, and this
warms each of the rooms. Some of the water is directed to the
taps to provide hot water for the house.
Once the water has been through the pipes and radiators, it is
returned to the boiler to be re-heated and circulated round the
house again.