IELTS Academic
Task 1 (process): Recycling glass bottles
Time: 20:00
Task · write at least 150 words · about 20 minutes
The diagram shows how glass bottles are recycled. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features.
- 1Bottles collected from recycling banks
- 2Transported to a sorting centre
- 3Sorted by colour
- 4Washed and labels removed
- 5Crushed into small pieces (cullet)
- 6Melted in a furnace at 1,500 °C
- 7Moulded into new bottles
- 8Filled and delivered to shops
Invented data for practice.
Tips for this task
- Say how many stages there are and where the process begins and ends.
- Use the passive: bottles are collected, are sorted…
- Use sequencers: first, next, after that, once…, finally.
- Use accurate data language: rose sharply, fell slightly, remained stable, peaked at.
- Don’t give opinions or reasons that aren’t shown.
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