part0030

1. You will be using passive present tense (is/are + V3) . This is different from what we have with MAPS. Maps we use with passive tense. Remember we use passive tense because we don’t want to focus on the actor or the subject of the sentence, we want to focus on the action or verb of the sentence. We don’t care that the investors built the house, we only care about how the house was built. Likewise. For man-made process , you may use passive tense, but present tense (is/are , NOT was/were ) because we don’t care about who made the chocolate , we only care about how the chocolate is made . You will be using passive present tense for your verbs to talk about what happens .

2. You will be using sequencers . Sequencers are words telling us about “when” or “how long” or “how often” . For example, these kinds of words are sequencers:

First , you do something; then , you do something else; next , you do something; before you do something else, you do something ( before I boil the water, I open the tea bag/ I boil the water until the chicken is ready…)

What about the words like “repeatedly” , or “twice” , or “several time” ? These words tell us that we are doing something more than once . So you might have sequencers that tell you “when” like first, next, then, finally… or sequencers tell you about “how long” such as “until/before” or words that tell you “how often” like repeatedly, several times, twice . This is used to tell you several things about time.

3. Finish the purpose by using non-defining relative clauses . These are used to add extra information about whatever you want to tell. In this case, the extra information will be the purpose , tell us about “why” for example, why are we melting the chocolate?, why are we crushing the rocks? . …which kills the bacteria , or….whic h prepares the tea .

Try to use more academic words to talk about a reason for something like “ in order to kill the bacteria” , or “ so as to kill the bacteria” , or “ to make sure/ to ensure the bacteria is killed” .

We can use non-defining relative clauses to show where something is. For example “next, the milk is sent to the factory, where it will be turned into the cheese and ice cream”

These are very useful, I want you to know that the process report contains something similar to the main point. Give the summary of what other steps are . That only can work if you give a brief list of steps. Don’t give a big list of steps.

The grammar is easy : your sentences in man-made process should contain sequencers, passive present tense, non-defining relative clauses and indefinite purpose , so that’s easy.

The tough part is the verb , you don’t know how to do these things. IELTS knows that you don’t know how to make chocolate...so they are going to give you all the information you need in the form of these diagrams, they are going to give you the illustration and the verbs and the words, nouns and all that information. You need to look carefully at each step and think exactly what is happening . Take the verb that they give you and put it into your own word . Think about exactly what they are showing you. Think about some logic, use logic “why do we heat things? – to melt, to cook, to warm”

Look at all these steps, make sure that you take notes on each step and give your own ideas about what is happening , the verbs and why it is happening .