Hi, I'm Dennis with bestmytest. com. Today we're gonna talk about...continue talking about IELTS academic writing task 1.
Well, today we're gonna talk about percentages. Now when you see a pie chart, usually that's gonna, you're gonna see percentages.
And a lot of students get confused about this—they don't know exactly the right way to talk about percentages. So what I want to do today is I want to tell you very clearly how do we talk about percentages and I also want to give you some options so that you can diversify your vocabulary and score the best that you can.
Alright, let's get started. Okay, let's talk about it.
Here, we got an example chart here. And as you can see, this pie chart depicts the energy generation by fuel type in the UK in the year 2014.
Nuclear power, gas, renewables, oil and coal. Okay, so I'm gonna show you some patterns that you can use to describe that.
But before I do, I want to tell you something that applies to all of them. And it's about how you say, how do you write percent.
Now, there's three different ways you can do it. You can say percent as one word.
You can say per cent as two words, or you can just write the symbol like that. All three are perfectly acceptable.
And so, I don't know if you know this but percent means per one's at 100. Right, it's a Latin word, cent as a Latin, comes from a Latin word.
