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This is an IELTS Energy

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Podcast, Episode 1373, The Strongest

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Vocabulary for Writing Task Welcome

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Jessica Beck and Aubrey Carter,

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Today you will learn not only

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the highest scoring vocabulary for IELTS

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Writing Task 1, but

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have to have in your essay

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Aubrey, I have a question. If someone

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says strong language,

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like she uses strong language, what

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does that make you think of?

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Oh, I kind of think about like swear words. Yeah,

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me too. Like someone's cursing

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me out, calling me mean things. Yo,

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that's some strong language. That's

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normal. Like if we say it

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in like daily life, that's what strong

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language would mean. But in today's context,

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guys. We're answering a

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YouTube subscriber question and

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she talks about strong

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vocabulary. So we are

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going to give you guys the

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strongest vocabulary for academic writing task

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one today and

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stay tuned until the end guys because

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we're gonna give you an extra tip

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on how you could keep learning and

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develop your task one vocabulary.

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So stay until the end for that quick

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tip guys. But let's read

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this student questions first.

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All right, this is from Lauren who said,

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thanks for sharing this useful information. I hope

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we see more videos about task

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one strong words. I

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love that. So yeah, this has a very

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different meaning when we're talking about the IELTS

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exam. Talking about high scoring words. Words that

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are strong as far as affecting our score,

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the examiner's impressed and it's going to give

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us that higher vocabulary score. And

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for task one, it has like an

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extra meaning when we say strong because

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I think this is a

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very important lesson today guys to remember, you

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have to use strong vocabulary in

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IELTS task one. And what I

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mean there is we're

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only describing the strongest

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numbers, right? The most

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noticeable numbers in task one.

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That's what I mean by using

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strong vocabulary because we're only

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describing the strongest numbers. You see

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what I mean? Yes, you're gonna wanna avoid

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like average, didn't

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change, nothing. Anything where you're

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talking about something being unimpressive,

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avoid that, right? You only need to

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cover the most important numbers. If

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this number is not interesting, don't put it in

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your essay. If there's nothing important

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about it, don't put it in your essay.

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In fact, when I'm going over student essays

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with students, I'll read a sentence they gave

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with a number and I'm like, now why

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did you put this number in here? And

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if they can't say why, if they

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can't answer me why, then I'm like, take it

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out. Take it out then. Relevant

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just in our last episode and you

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guys have missed it. Scroll back we

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talked about: if you're sharing irrelevant information

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that's a band for and those are

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an important. numbers are irrelevant for your

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essay. Exactly. So today's episode

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nicely ties in the last

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episode which was about the

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task achievement score A tie

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that it with your vocabulary

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Score! So really, today's advice

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it goes towards both of

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those because if you're using

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today's strong vocabulary than that

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means you're also only describing.

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Relevance. Strong numbers. Select

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gets us what can we

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use for a. Static.

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Essays Now what a static essay.

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First of all, Yeah. So this

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is when you have a turret

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or a graph that shows a

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static point in time. It's not

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showing how information changed over time.

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It's almost like a snapshot of

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just like what happened in Nineteen

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Eighty or in January of Twenty

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Ten were saying one moment in

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time. Exactly. Exactly. So

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it's often a table and it's

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all about comparing. Like comparing men

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and women, comparing people who graduated

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from high school or college or

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got the Phd right? It's comparing

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groups of things. So here's some

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vocabulary guys for these type of

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grass is the first place, the

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most remarkable. Now what does that

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mean and when would we use

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it. Means the same

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of most noticeable says another great

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term. We use it when a

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number is either of the highest

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or the most impressive right? that

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it's interesting cause something remarkable is

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just like we're noticing it. Yellow.

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It when I think about it may

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be the lowest number could be called

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remarkable but we really use that with

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those that are color coded as being

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like the highest are the best. Yeah,

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I would only use it for the

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highest numbers here right? The biggest numbers

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of but also. If there's a

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remarkable like surprise on there you

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could say like remarkably both men

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and women scored the same on

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something something like if that's the

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only number that they're the same

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the that's remarkable because like it's

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really interesting right ago it does

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have this meaning have been really

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interesting, some house the only like

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a very surprising trend or the

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biggest numbers. That's when we would

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use that phrase. Yes,

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And the next one is either

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the most or least impressive number.

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Oh, this. again, if something very

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noticeable, Remarkable. So you can play

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the most impressive number and then

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you're sharing the highest number for

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that category. Or you could say

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the least impressive number. Meaning the

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lowest number for that category. Exactly

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And notice Guys that all

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of these phrases have superlatively

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right? Most begets the largest.

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Most remarkable because again, the

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grammar here ties in with

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a vocabulary ties in with

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task achievement. You are only

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describing the the biggest and

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the smallest right? So this

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kind of helps remind you

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what numbers were gonna include

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in the Sadek assets are.

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So the last phrase here

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guys is and category. Let's

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say women, Women. Boasted the

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most massive number of. A.

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Million in Two Thousand and

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three? Whatever. But here, the vocabulary

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boasted right. We're gonna use

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this for biggest numbers and then

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most massive means this is

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the biggest number. This. Is such

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a great way to. Replace your a verb speaker

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I don't wanna just state this was

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hi this way low and were using

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the same verb every time but also

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vocabulary repetition so as you can use.

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A verb like both said instead

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to say that one category boasted

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the most massive number and then

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share the highest number for that

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category you are replacing battle. That

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let's get into the strongest vocabulary

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for change over time. So change over

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time, usually a

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line graph, sometimes a table, sometimes

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a bar chart, but it does

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show you numbers that change over

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many months or many years, whatever,

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many hours, these numbers change over

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the different times shown. So what's

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the vocabulary we could use here?

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The first one is fluctuated wildly.

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Now that means there was some

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variation. It went up and then

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down and then up again. This

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is definitely not for something

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that started low and then went high

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and had sort of a steady increase.

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Fluctuated, the same as oscillated, means it

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went back and forth. It had some

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ups and downs. But

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only use this guys if these

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ups and downs are big, right?

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If they're noticeable. Like you're never

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going to say fluctuated

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slightly. Like who cares? That's boring.

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Nobody cares about that, guys. Don't

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put boring numbers in your essay.

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But something, if it's crazy up

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and down, then we want

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to note that. It's interesting. It's noticeable.

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So you can put that in your

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essay. But remember to always include a

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number, like fluctuated wildly between and

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then whatever the bottom and top

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is of the fluctuation. So fluctuated

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wildly between one and a

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thousand. Exactly. And the

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next one, there are

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two here, really impressive words for

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lowest and highest. For lowest,

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nadir. The and A

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D I are means the

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lowest point on the chart

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and then it's opposite zenith

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for the highest number on

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your chart. I love these

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words said these words funnily

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enough like a lot of

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our interesting vocabulary to describe

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numbers that comes from to

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places that comes from. I'm

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like describing lay and you

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know, like a plateau. Ah

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mad to ebb was another.

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What a peak Right like

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a mountain. Peak a hill plateau

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Like these are like geography terms

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but we use them in task

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while and here nader in the

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that these are of astronomy terms.

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These are used to describe stars

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and stuff in the sky but

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we can use them to describe

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numbers and that's what makes them

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Intersects are a those these last

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you guys, Something that increases crazily

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skyrocket and something numbers that decrease

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leisurely. We could say plummet. And

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you get emphasize the. The.

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Amount to that that happened

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by saying markedly as the

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adverb meaning oh lox. Yes,

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and the things that keep in mind

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off like Jessica was saying, these are

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numbers that changed drastically. You can't say

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the number sky from ten to twelve,

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right? It has, sir officially an increase

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that was dramatic. That was impressive. To

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say it skyrocketed markedly and same thing

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of a numbers just going down slightly.

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You shouldn't be describing that number at

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all when it's a more significant decrease.

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That's when you say this number plummeted

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markedly. Exactly. Exactly

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so much. great advice here today

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guys. So here is that leads

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that you've been waiting for. How

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can you keep developing your vocabulary

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for task? Want to? How can

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you keep learning Interesting vocab to

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describe numbers the easiest way here

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guys as you read the financial

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section or business section of any

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newspaper because that's all it is

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is this. Writing Numbers Sites

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so read articles from the New

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York Times, The Washington Post, The

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Guardian. anything describing this as financial

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news. They're all gonna have a

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really interesting ways to describe numbers.

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So the read a whole article

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from a publication like that shoes

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like one or two phrases that

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our new right and focus on

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learning how to use those well

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and practice using those in your

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riding. Yes, Such great advice! It

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might not be the most interesting news article

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you've ever read, but you're tough when as

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they will not be the most interesting have

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them have ever written outside of how academic.

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Task One where you

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know, boring, boring but.

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That's how it is that why you

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need us to give you a strategy

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has not normal writing that you're used

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to. Do know is that ask what

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is So we have good academic is

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so weird. I like just good general

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like I love coming up other story

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and writing a letter but that's good

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academic. it's a slog you guys are

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that's like keep it fun, you adjusted

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vocabulary the doesn't only like help you

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enjoy riding the as A, but it

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helps the examiner enjoy reading it and

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it increases your score. On so

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far as here is a summary

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of the vocab we've talked about

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today: Aubrey: what were the phrases

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for a static as a nurse

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most remarkable, most and least impressive

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number and then acts something boasted

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the most massive amount or the

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most massive number. Nice. And

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then for change over time we

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taught you fluctuated wildly. Nader which

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is the lowest point, Zenith which

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is the highest point and then

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skyrocket goes up a lot, planet

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goes down a lot and then

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add the adjective mark, goodness or

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the adverb markedly. Ah

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so got such high scoring vocabulary these

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are going. To boost your Vocab

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scores. On testing the practice Using

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these as you write those practice

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academics husk one Essays. Awesome!

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