No date – use the present tense
The tenses you are most likely to need are:
– Present tense – present simple, present perfect or present perfect continuous
– Past tense – past simple
– Future tense – future simple or the future perfect
The table below gives explanations of these verb tenses and examples from Task 1 essays.
Common Writing IELTS Task 1 Verbs
Most graphics will require you to compare data from two or more time periods, for example, past and present or present and future predictions, so you will need to use a range of different tenses in your essay, as appropriate.
The key word in the sentence above is ‘appropriate’. Whilst you will gain marks for using a good range of tenses in your Writing IELTS Task 1 essay, you should never do so just to show that you know many different tenses. Only use the tense that is 100% correct for expressing a specific piece of information. It is accuracy that the examiner is looking for.
The first two steps of writing a great Academic Task 1 essay are to:
I cover these tasks in detail in the lesson on How To Understand & Analyse Task 1 Questions.
Once you’ve done this, you'll understand what you’re required write about. It will be one or more of these things:
There are specific sentence structures that you can use for each and these are what we’re going to look at next.
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