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Learn from tutors and ex-examiners  \nwho are masters ofIELTS preparation. Your host, Ben Worthington.  \n[Music]  \n# Introduction\n\nBen: IELTS Task 1 map vocabulary, grammar, prepositions, and phrases. Hello there, IELTSstudents. My name is Ben Worthington and in this tutorial, we are looking at IELTS AcademicTask 1 map vocabulary, grammar, prepositions, and phrases as you just heard me say.  \nSo, let's jump right into it. Again, grab a pen because I think this is going to be an incrediblypractical useful tutorial and we've got the whole tutorial at IELTS Podcast. Just go to Google or  \n© IELTSPodcast.com / B.Worthington / BW English Services. 2020. All Rights Reserved.  \n# Vocabulary to Describe Maps\n\nIELTS Online Course - Jump to Band 7 or it's Free!  \nIELTS Essay Correction Service  \nClick here for IELTS Materials (free)  \nwhatever and put in IELTS Podcast map vocabulary and there you'll see the whole tutorial and  \nit's free.  \nAnd I strongly recommend you go there especially if you're struggling with the map vocabulary  \nand just by listening to the tutorial-- actively listening, taking a pen and writing down the phrases  \nand then you can even check the phrases with what you see online with a new tutorial I wrote  \nout. So, let's jump straight into it.  \nSo, now then, the maps will usually consist of two maps that have undergone a change. So,perhaps they replanted a forest. Perhaps they destroyed a forest. Perhaps it's an island and theydeveloped the island and put some hotels on there or perhaps it's a town and they reconstructedthe town center by building a supermarket and converting a park or even just changing anabandoned factory into a green space. It's quite varied, all right?  \n© IELTSPodcast.com / B.Worthington / BW English Services. 2020. All Rights Reserved.  \nVocabulary to Describe Maps  \nIELTS Online Course - Jump to Band 7 or it's Free!  \nIELTS Essay Correction Service  \nClick here for IELTS Materials (free)  \nBut what we can usually be safe on is that there will be a change there and you will be asked to  \nsummarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons  \nwhere necessary. Make comparisons. That's an incredibly useful little hint there which I will  \ndevelop further and share more about in a few minutes.  \nAnd generally speaking, we usually spend around 20 minutes on this because it's worth about  \n30% of the points and also at least about 150 words, but I wouldn't worry about it that much.  \nObviously, we want to spend 40 minutes on Task 2, so it's usually the procedure for students todo Task 2 first where they're going to pick up the bulk of the points andthen go back to Task 1.  \nNow, cardinal directions. If you don't know what cardinal directions are, you're totally excusedthere’s no problem because I didn't know that they were called cardinal directions until I startedwriting this out. Cardinal directions means north, east, south, and west.  \n© IELTSPodcast.com / B.Worthington / BW English Services. 2020. All Rights Reserved.  \nVocabulary to Describe Maps  \nIELTS Online Course - Jump to Band 7 or it's Free!  \nIELTS Essay Correction Service  \nClick here for IELTS Materials (free)  \nAs we say in England, never eat shredded wheat. That's how we remember the order of the  \ncompass points. In my upbringing and especially at scouts, we just called them the compass  \npoints and this isthe first time I’ve heard them being called the cardinal directions. So, anyway  \nnorth, east, south, and west. Those are the four main ones.  \nObviously, then we've got the inter-cardinal directions: northeast, southeast, southwest, and  \nnorthwest. Now, in English we do not need a capital letter forthemand they can also work as  \nadjectives. So, we can say the southwestern corner as an adjective and we can also use them as anoun and say something like in the northeast. 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