Academic Writing - Task 1 (Describing maps - Vocabulary)

Make something bigger - extend / expand

Make something new again - renovate / modernise

Make something modern - modernise / renovate

Take something away and put something else in its place - replace 

Make something better - improve

Make something smaller - reduce

Build several buildings in an area where there was nothing - develop 

Put in something totally new - add

Take something away - remove

Build something again - reconstruct


The Official Cambridge Guide to IELTS for Academic and General Training p.111