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Structure and Operation of a Home Smokery

The diagram below describes the structure of a home smokery and how it works.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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Key features: Structure and Operation of a Home Smokery

WhyThis is aProcess diagram — it asks you to explain a sequence from beginning to end.

SoWe split the points intoOverview(how many stages, and where it starts and ends)andStages(each step in order).

Overview

1 point

Stages

3 points

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Response 01
Estimated band7.5/ 9

Overall assessment

The response is fluent, clearly organised and supported by a good range of vocabulary and complex structures. It identifies smoke production and the final smoking chamber, but the overview starts with the logs and misses the initial fresh-air section. The lids are also omitted, while cooling is asserted without visual evidence. A more diagram-led account would replace speculative explanation with the visible air route, pipe position and hanging fish.

TA

Task Achievement

The response provides an overview and describes smoke production and the smoking box, but it omits the first numbered fresh-air section and the two lids. The duct represents the pipe, although its route could be clearer; cooling and heat-resistant construction are not established by the image.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

The paragraphs and references create a clear, logical progression from introduction to overview and details. However, the extended explanation of cooling distracts from the physical route, and the missing air-intake stage leaves that sequence incomplete.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is varied and generally natural, including “ignited”, “channelled” and “suspended”. Some wording is less precise for this visual task: “raw smoke” makes the introduction abstract, and the broad food description misses the clearly visible fish.

8.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A wide range of structures is used with strong control, including complex participle and relative clauses, and errors are rare and non-impeding.

8.0

What to work on next

Trace the full route from the fresh-air inlet to the logs and then through the sloping pipe into the box. Include the two lids and hanging fish, and replace the unsupported cooling explanation with visible structural details.

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