LESSON 2
WRITING
MAP
150-220 WORDS
MAP
MAPS are becoming a lot more common. The language that we use to describe
graphs like bar charts, tables, line graphs, would not be used to describe maps. We
should need to use new language to describe maps.
In the north: within an area.
(California is in the west of the United
States/Phu My Hung is in the south of
HCM city.)
To the north: to be used for
comparison/ outside an area (China is
LANGUAGE to the north of Vietnam/ Cambodia is
OF to the west of Vietnam.)
In the southwest: Florida is in the
DIRECTION: southeast of the United States.
To the southwest: The entrance
was moved to the southwest of the
building.
Be located/situated in: The shopping mall
was located/situated in the center of the city
was knocked down to make way for a new
university.
Opposite: A restaurant has been built on the
opposite side of the road where the shop used
to be.
LANGUAGE Next to: A new car park has been constructed
next to the hotel.
OF
LOCATION: Along: there was a new sidewalk along the
river.
Across from: The park is across from the
school.
• The grammar for Map is quite simple
that you should use passive voice.
• Ex:Present Simple / Past Simple
GRAMMAR: Present Perfect / Past Perfect
• In 1990 there was a park in the centre
of the city,which has been modernised
and expanded over the given period.
Now the territory of the park is twice
larger than it used to be there.
Buildings: Demolished, knocked
down, constructed, built, erected
Areas: built,
constructed,appeared,disspeared.
VERBS TO Trees: cut down/chopped down,
DESCRIBE removed, uprooted
MAP: Factories/facilities: established,
installed, placed, put in.
Don’t say: a house was installed/
established.
An urban area = a city
A rural area = a countryside
PARAPHRASING
An industrial area = factory,
manufacturing, processing
Residential area = houses
STRUCTURE
[Link]
-PARAPHRASING The maps illustrate the developments which
took place in the coastal town of
Youngsville between 1980 and 2005.
STRUCTURE
[Link]
-Describe the biggest change in a short
sentence.
-State the names of other few changes
from the map. Do not mention the
location of these.
Overall, a comparison of the two
maps reveals a complete
transformation
from a largely rural to a mainly urban
area.
In the year 1980, the town was a much greener residential
STRUCTURE area with a large number of trees and individual houses,
but during the next 25 years, the town saw a number of
significant changes. The most noticeable is that all of the
trees in the south of the River Alanah were chopped down,
3. BODY 1 with all the houses along the railway line being demolished
to make way for skyscrapers. Moreover, a new industrial
4. BODY 2 zone with warehouses and factories sprang up
WE CAN DESCRIBE 1 AND 2 MAP around the school and airport.
ST ND
SEPARATELY OR DESCRIBE In contrast, only a few trees in the north of the river
APPEAR&DISSAPEAR SEPARATELY remained. The woodland was cleared and converted into a
golf course, a park, and car parting facilities. Further
developments were the construction of a stadium next to
the northeast corner of the lake and the extension of the
railway line from the river running directly to the north. A
Marina was also constructed at the mouth of the river.
NO CONLUSION!!!
HOMEWORK
DIAGRAM
VOCABULARY
Adjectives Verbs Adverbs
• Afterwards
• Man-made • Distributes
• Firstly
• Linear • Creates • Secondly
• During
• Natural • Produces
• While
• Human-produced • Makes • Subsequently
• Next
• Moves
• Cyclical • Following
• Later
• Finally/Lastly
STRUCTURE
The diagram explains the way in
• [Link] which steel rods are produced for
-PARAPHRASING the furniture industry.
STRUCTURE
• 2. OVERVIEW
1)how the process begins and
ends
2)the number of stages
Overall, the process consists of eleven stages,
beginning with the raw material and ending up
with the product’s inspection.
First of all, iron ore, yellow ore and carbon are
collected to serve as a raw material for steel rods
manufacturing. After that, the raw material is
STRUCTURE
melted in a melting slit, where it is heated to a
temperature in range of 1300-1500 °C. The melted
mass is then transferred to a smelting cabin to
undergo refinement. Next, the candescent metal is
put in a pouring machine and poured into ingots.
• [Link] 1
[Link] 2 In the next stage, the ingots are connected to a
cooling reservoir, where the temperature falls to
60-100 °C. Metal goes through special nozzles and
• DESCRIBE EACH STAGE IN DETAIL.
cools down, forming strands. Following this, the
metal strands proceed to rollers that change their
shape. Next, the products are put into a heating
machine, where they undergo heat treatment.
Subsequently, a measuring automaton completes a
surface check of the products.
After that, the metal rods are sized by special
cutters and get ID stamping. Finally, the products
undergo inspection and are ready for use.
HOMEWORK