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01 мая 2017 01:30

CORRECT ANSWERS

1. NOT GIVEN
No information about whether being a father influenced him.

2. TRUE
financial incentives to do certain tasks = attaching an allowance to chores

3. TRUE
the majority of U.S. parents = 68% of U.S. parents
pocket money = an allowance

NOTE: Many of you fell into the "overthinking" trap with number 3. It doesn't matter how many people were in the survey (no survey ever asks every person in the country) - the survey concludes that 68% of parents in the USA give their children an allowance, and this is the majority.

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30 апреля 2017 11:18

Michael Eisenberg believes in giving children financial incentives to do certain tasks.

TRUE – 27
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 90%

FALSE – 2
👍 7%

NOT GIVEN – 1
▫️ 3%

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30 апреля 2017 11:11

Chores for children

Assigning new jobs for children as they mature will develop their work ethic, says Gregg Murset, CEO of BusyKid, a chore and allowance tracking app. “The most important thing is to challenge them,” he says. “Once they have some proficiency you need to make them stretch to do the next job.” Mr. Murset, a father of six children ages 10 to 20, believes parents should teach children to do housework when they’re young, no matter if it yields imperfect results. “Even though it’s easier to just clean the toilet by yourself and be done with it, you have to take the long view and realise that these fundamental life skills are so important,” he says.

Attaching an allowance to chores teaches children not to expect handouts, says Michael Eisenberg, a financial advisor and member of the National Financial Literacy Commission. “At earlier ages, it instills within children the reality that you do something and you get paid for it,” he says. “Later on in life, they learn that the only way we get money is if we produce stuff at our jobs.” Some 68% of U.S. parents say they pay an allowance to their children, at an average rate of $67.80 per month, according to a 2016 survey of 1,005 adults. More than 80% of respondents who pay an allowance say they want to teach their child the value of money and financial responsibility, the survey found.

Are the following statements TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN?

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30 апреля 2017 10:24

5. Describing Data Incorrectly

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3. Over-complicating the Question

The examiners know that you have never seen the graph or chart before and that you only have 20 minutes to write about it, so they are not expecting miracles. To help you, the graphs are much simpler that you think. Look at the graph and try to spot the three general trends. Try not to get caught up in the detail, just focus on what is happening generally from the start date to the end. In general, one goes up, one goes down and one stays relatively stable. It is often that simple. If you reported those three main trends you would be correct, but many students (especially the higher level ones) think that this is too simple and try to find data that is not really there to find.

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30 апреля 2017 11:19

The majority of U.S. parents give their children pocket money.

TRUE – 33
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 87%

FALSE – 3
👍 8%

NOT GIVEN – 2
▫️ 5%

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30 апреля 2017 11:17

Gregg Murset’s experiences of fatherhood led him to develop the BusyKid app.

NOT GIVEN – 24
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%

TRUE – 7
👍👍 21%

FALSE – 2
👍 6%

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4. Not Organizing Ideas Logically

The most logical way to organise a Task 1 essay is:

Paragraph 1- Introduction
Paragraph 2- Overview of main features
Paragraph 3- Details of main features 1
Paragraph 4- Details of main features 2

You could hand a Band 9 answer to a stranger and they would be able to read it once and then be able to roughly draw the graph or chart. Paragraphing and grouping ideas together logically helps the reader understand everything more easily.

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2. Writing About Everything

Every Academic Task 1 question states ‘Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features...’. ‘Summarise’ l means that you only mention the main points, or as the question states ‘the main features.’ Lots of students try to write about every piece of information they see. This normally leads to a very disorganised essay and often means that you run out of time, or even worse, run over time and fail to complete Task 2. Always keep in mind that the task is as much about what you do not write as you do write. This is often a case of prioritising. I tell my students when writing the overview that they can only tell the examiner 3 things and three things only about the graph and this prioritisation helps them write a more effective overview.

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1. Not Writing a Clear Overview

This is the most important part of your whole essay. The overview is a short paragraph that tells the reader 2 or 3 of the most significant things about the chart, graph, table etc. It should contain no data and instead describe the main features in general terms. In order to get a Band 7 candidates must ‘present a clear overview of main trends, differences or stages.’ In other words, if you don’t write a clear overview you can’t get a Band 7 or above.

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