Level B2 (approx. band 5.5-6.5) · Academic only Sometimes Academic Task 1 shows no numbers at all. Instead, you see a diagram with pictures and arrows: how something is made, or how something happens in nature. Learners who have practised only graphs write the bottles washed instead of the bottles are washed, they repeat then ten times, and they forget the overview because there is no trend. In this episode: • Two kinds of process • The passive • Sequencing language • The overview for a process • Model • Language bridge • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key points: • Find the start, the end, and every stage in between before you write. • Manufacturing usually takes is or are plus a past participle; nature usually takes the active. • Mix simple sequencers with once, after being and before being. • Number of stages, first stage, last stage. IELTS Complete Course: a self-study podcast from A1 to C2 for Academic and General Training. Listen, pause and answer, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair. Independent course, not affiliated with the IELTS test owners.