IELTS Writing Task 1: Describing a Bar Chart Task 1 of the Academic IELTS requires you to describe visual data, such as a bar chart. Begin with an overview that identifies the main trends. Don’t list every detail. For example, “Overall, sales increased, while costs fluctuated.” Then group data: compare highs and lows, and use expressions like “rose steadily,” “fell sharply,” or “remained stable.” Use linking words: …

Channel
Daria Shtorm | English Teacher
@dariaspeaky
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
1,700subscribers
+15 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001199553027 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @dariaspeaky |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 2 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 2 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/dariaspeaky |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Sept 2026, 10:57 | 1,700 | -4 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 09:43 | 1,704 | +5 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 09:24 | 1,699 | +1 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 21:03 | 1,698 | +2 |
| 18 Aug 2026, 00:21 | 1,696 | +19 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 19:55 | 1,677 | -3 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 09:12 | 1,680 | -5 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 05:16 | 1,685 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 05:08 | 1,685 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 9 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 2 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 5 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
12 reactions across 10 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 66.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👏 | 8 | 66.7% | |
| 👍 | 2 | 16.7% | |
| ❤ | 1 | 8.33% | |
| 😁 | 1 | 8.33% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 10 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 12 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 9 July 2026 to 5 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
IELTS Speaking Part 2: Structuring Your Talk In Part 2 of the IELTS Speaking test, you are given a topic card and one minute to prepare. You must speak for one to two minutes. The key is to use the prompts on the card to structure your answer. Start by introducing the topic: “I’m going to talk about…” Then address each bullet point. To keep talking, add personal examples, feelings and descriptions. Use phrases like …
Asking for and Giving Directions in English When you’re lost or exploring a new place, knowing how to ask for directions is essential. Start with a polite phrase: “Excuse me, could you tell me how to get to the train station?” or “I’m looking for the nearest pharmacy. Do you know where it is?” People often use landmarks: “It’s next to the post office” or “You’ll see a big red building.” Clear directions include verb…
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How to Make Small Talk in English Small talk is casual conversation about light topics like weather, hobbies or weekend plans. It’s common in social and work settings. To start, ask simple open-ended questions: “How was your weekend?” or “Have you seen any good films lately?” Listen carefully and show interest with phrases like “That sounds interesting.” Avoid sensitive topics such as politics or religion. Use follo…
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Exercise 6: Grammar – Conditionals in a Business Context Complete each sentence with the correct form of the verb in brackets. Use the first conditional for realistic situations and the second conditional for hypothetical or imaginary situations. 1. If the supplier (not deliver) the goods by Friday, we (have to) find another option. 2. If I (be) in charge, I (introduce) more flexible working hours. 3. We (not meet)…
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Exercise 5: Speaking – Work and Business Practise answering the questions below aloud as you would in an IELTS Speaking test. Then read the sample answers to compare and get ideas. Part 1 1. What is your job? 2. How do you usually travel to work? 3. Do you prefer working in a team or on your own? Why? Part 2 Describe a business trip you have taken or would like to take. You should say: • where you went or would go…
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Exercise 4: Reading – Email Exchange Read the email exchange between Laura and Mark and answer the questions that follow. From: Laura Chen To: Mark Dawson Subject: Meeting on Friday Dear Mark, I’m writing about our product demo meeting scheduled for this Friday at 10 a.m. Unfortunately, our technical specialist Alex is off sick this week, so we won’t be able to show the full demo as planned. I suggest we move the …
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Exercise 3: Reading – Workplace Memo Read the memo and decide if the statements below are True (T), False (F) or Not Given (NG). To: All Staff From: HR Department Subject: New Travel Booking Procedure Starting from 1st September, all business travel must be booked through the company’s online travel portal. You may not use other websites. To request a trip, please complete the digital form at least one week before…
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Exercise 2: Vocabulary – Work Phrasal Verbs Match each phrasal verb (1–8) with its meaning (a–h). Write your answers as number and letter (for example, 1 – b). 1. carry out 2. call off 3. look into 4. take over 5. set up 6. cut back on 7. fill in for 8. come up with a. to cancel something planned b. to perform or do a task c. to think of an idea or solution d. to replace someone temporarily e. to investigate f. to…
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Exercise 1: Vocabulary – Business Collocations Match each verb (1–8) with the correct phrase (a–h) to make a common business expression. Write your answers as number and letter (for example, 1 – e). 1. arrange 2. chair 3. conduct 4. meet 5. set 6. submit 7. achieve 8. allocate a. a meeting b. a survey c. an appointment d. a deadline e. resources f. a target g. a report h. a goal Answer Key 1 – c (arrange an appoi…
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Exercise 6: Vocabulary – Word Formation (Business) Complete the table with the missing word forms. The first one is done for you. 1. Verb: apply Noun (person): applicant Noun (thing/idea): application Adjective: applicable / applied 2. Verb: compete Noun (person): competitor Noun (thing/idea): competition Adjective: __ 3. Verb: innovate Noun (person): innovator Noun (thing/idea): innovation Adjective: __ 4. Verb…
Exercise 5: Writing – Business Email You have to go on a business trip next Wednesday and Thursday. You need to cancel your team’s weekly progress meeting, which is usually held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Write an email to your team in 60–80 words. In your email you should: • inform them about the business trip • say that the Wednesday meeting is cancelled • suggest a new day and time for the meeting (for example, …
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @dariaspeaky. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@PSCAA · 195,168
Telegram ranks this channel #21 of 33 here — alongside 32 others — read 3 September 2026
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 2 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Daria Shtorm | English Teacher” (@dariaspeaky), 1,700 subscribers as measured 2 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/dariaspeaky.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.