Welcome back to the course. Now that you know how to write a good introduction, we're going to move on to writing the overviews. So in this video, I'm going to show you how to write the second paragraph to your task one essay. So first, let's go over some basic information that you need to know. Firstly, the overview paragraph should not include any specific or numeric details. So what this means is when you see any numeric information on an infographic, such as the number of units or percentages, or any other type of data, you should not describe that data in the overview paragraph.

This is very important. The numeric details should only be discussed in paragraph number three and number four. So in the overview paragraph, we just have to describe the general information about the trends differences. stages, the best way for you to describe this general information is to simply describe the highest and the lowest data point at the start of the graph and the end of the graph. Or if you have a comparative graph, where you don't have a beginning and an ending, then you just have to describe the highest and the lowest data points in the two infographics that you're comparing. The overview needs to be only two to three sentences long, and you will only have three to five minutes to finish the overview.

Now, as you know, you cannot include numeric details in the overview. However, if you have dates or times listed on your infographic, then it's fine to mention those. So this here is a sample answer to a task one question. As you already know, you only have to write four paragraphs for the task one essay. So these here are the four things paragraphs, we have the introduction here, we have the overview here. And here we have paragraphs number three, and number four.

So this highlighted part here. The second paragraph is what we call the overview. And in this overview, you're going to be giving some basic and general information about the infographic. Now, here are some useful phrases that you can use for starting overview paragraphs. You can use these words and phrases to open your paragraph. And you can use these words and phrases listed in the B column to introduce your general information.

So what you can do with this table here is you can simply mix and match the different openings and the introductory language to start your overview paragraph. So for example, you can mix and match these parts that are highlighted here. So you could say, in general, it can be clearly observed that, and then you can go ahead and introduce the general information on your infographic. So you can mix and match these rows in any way that you want. For example, you could say, on the whole, it is conspicuous that, and then you can go ahead and introduce your ideas. So these are just some useful phrases that you can use to start the overview paragraphs.

In the following videos, you'll see me using these phrases for starting different overviews in the practice questions that will be discussed for the trend graphs, comparative graphs, process diagrams, and the map questions. So I'll see you in the next video, in which we're going to delve much deeper into writing the overviews, and we're going to start with writing the overviews for tradecraft