Task 1 · process diagram · 18 samples

The diagram shows the process by which milk and related products are produced.

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Ideas to explore

  • Describe the process as a sequence from the farm to retail, rather than treating the products as unrelated items.
  • Mention the cold-storage stage and daily tanker delivery as important links between milking and dairy processing.
  • Distinguish the two visible product outcomes: pasteurized, packaged milk and cheese, cream and butter.

Suggested structure

  1. Introduce what the diagram depicts.
  2. Give an overview of the start, end and main phases.
  3. Describe milking, refrigerated storage and tanker delivery in sequence.
  4. Explain the outputs at the dairy and finish with transport to shops.
Useful vocabulary & examples
refrigerated storage
a cooled place where milk is kept before further processing or transport

The milk is transferred to refrigerated storage after the cows are milked.

daily tanker delivery
milk being transported by tanker once each day

A tanker collects the stored milk for daily delivery to the dairy.

pasteurized and packaged
heat-treated to make it safer, then put into containers for sale

Some of the milk is pasteurized and packaged as drinking milk.

offered for sale
made available for customers to buy

The finished dairy products are transported to shops and offered for sale.

Sample answers

AI-completed learning example

241 words · Illustrative target band

The illustration highlights the various stages involved in the production of cow milk from original ingredients. A closer look at the diagram highlights the fact that there are six stages to the milk making process and each will be explained in the writing section below. The process begins when Cows on some farms are frozen according to the source wording, but the diagram actually shows cows grazing, not being frozen…

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187 words · Illustrative target band

The figures illustrate the manufacturing stages of milky-based product. In general, these involve five procedures which cover the raw materials production from cows, the ready-to-use milk and the phase of its possible dairy items subsequently distributed. First of all, the farming is measure the quality of milk by grazing sufficiently the cows in order to produce suitable milk. After that, the cows are milked by a ma…

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194 words · Illustrative target band

The diagram represents the stages of milk manufacture. Overall, there are three main places where included in the process, the first is from the source of where the milk were obtained that is milch cow, the second is in the Dairy, and the last area is in market place. The step begin from the place where cows are kept. First, the cows graze in a field and they are milked by a machine two times a day. After this, the m…

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