Thanksgiving and IELTS Writing Task 1 or read like Irina 🦃

Irina reading an article about Thanksgiving be like: "OK, what do we have here for IELTS Writing Task 1?"

📝 Ways to introduce figures:
- nine-in-ten Americans (91%)
- Another 5%
- Around a quarter (26%)

📝 Avoiding repetition:
- some people are more likely than others to do so
- the same is true of 88% of immigrants who
- Ellipsis: 26% of Americans plan to have dinner with six to 10 other people, 15% with three to five other people, and 4% with one to two other people

📝 Topic sentences and paragraph transitions:
- Immigration status also plays a role.
- Smaller get-togethers are more common

📝 Punctuation to communicate meaning:
- Dashes: – whether it’s because they are working or traveling or for some other reason –
- Colon: Smaller get-togethers are more common: 26% of Americans plan to have dinner with six to 10 other people ...

📝 Even more phrases for cohesion:
- The rest don’t celebrate Thanksgiving.
- The remaining Americans plan to have Thanksgiving dinner alone ...

📝 What else? Ah, right, a correlative conjunction pair:
- whether it’s because they are working or traveling or for some other reason

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https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/21/the-vast-majority-of-americans-celebrate-thanksgiving-but-their-traditions-and-activities-vary-widely/

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