{"id":52337,"date":"2016-09-03T01:05:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T01:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/aee\/ielts-maps-writing-listening\/"},"modified":"2021-11-30T22:48:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T22:48:23","slug":"ielts-maps-writing-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/ielts-maps-writing-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"IELTS Challenge: Maps, Maps, Everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Writing Task 1, you will <strong>most likely have to describe number<\/strong>s, but, in recent years, there have been <strong>more map questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>How do you answer these IELTS Task 1 Map questions?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>First, <strong>watch this video<\/strong>. It explains the two different kinds of map questions:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FDPXgD-sGZ0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>In sum:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most common map question is<a href=\"\/ielts\/ielts-energy-146-ielts-writing-task-1-perfect-prepositions\/\"> similar to a Change Over Time<\/a> question. Namely, there will be two maps that show one place in two different years.\n<ul>\n<li>For example, the question might ask you to compare one city in 2000 and 2016.<\/li>\n<li>In this case, you use sentences such as, <em>\u201cThe&nbsp;amount of housing developments jumped.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The other type of map question, much rarer, is <a href=\"\/ielts\/checklist-ielts-writing-feedback\/\">similar to a Static question<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">For example, it will show you one map, and it will ask you to compare two places on the map.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">You will use language such as, <em>\u201cSite 1 is much closer to public transport than Site 2.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/ielts\/ielts-map-questions\/\">In this blog post<\/a>, I explain how to score highly in all categories for map questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong>100% Score Increase Guarantee with our Insider Method<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/keys\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/3-Keys-IELTS-Box-Shot-900px-OPTIMIZED-FOR-WEB-smaller-version-1-300x293.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/3-Keys-IELTS-Box-Shot-900px-OPTIMIZED-FOR-WEB-smaller-version-1-300x293.png 300w, https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/3-Keys-IELTS-Box-Shot-900px-OPTIMIZED-FOR-WEB-smaller-version-1.png 440w\" alt=\"3 Keys IELTS course\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\"><\/a><strong>Are you ready to move past IELTS and move forward with your life vision?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Find out why our strategies are the most powerful in the IELTS world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When you use our Insider Method you avoid the BIGGEST MISTAKES that most students make on IELTS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/keys\">Click here to get a score increase on IELTS. It\u2019s 100% guaranteed.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Excellent strategy to feel more prepared for IELTS map questions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Realize that the questions with two maps are similar to Change Over Time. Thus, you should use similar vocabulary and sentence structures.<\/li>\n<li>Realize that the questions with one map are similar to Static questions.&nbsp;Thus, you should use similar vocabulary and sentence structures (such as comparatives and superlatives.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Writing Task 1 isn\u2019t the only place that you might face maps and diagrams on IELTS.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>They can also pop up as Listening and Reading questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ielts\/ielts-energy-272-handle-maps-diagrams-picture-ielts\/\">There are specific strategies<\/a> toward handling these questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Look at the map\/diagram and describe it in your head. <a href=\"\/ielts\/ielts-listening-map-completion-questions\/\">Predict what you might hear\/read.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Know if you need nouns\/verbs\/adjectives\/adverbs to complete the labeling.<\/li>\n<li>On Listening, the answers will always be in order.<\/li>\n<li>On Reading the answers might not be in order, but they will usually be from one section of the passage (1-3 paragraphs.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Do you have experience answering IELTS map questions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leave us a message in the comments section below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Writing Task 1, you will most likely have to describe numbers, but, in recent years, there have been more map questions. 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It explains the two different kinds of map questions:&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/ielts-maps-writing-listening\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"category":[274,335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ielts","category-ielts-listening-question-types"],"acf":{"podcast_link":".mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>IELTS Challenge: Maps, Maps, Everywhere! | All Ears English Podcast<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this IELTS video Jessica Beck shows you how to handle IELTS maps questions on the Listening test. 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