59 IETLS Graph samples ( IELTS Writing task 1 )

59 IEL TS GRAPH SAMP LE IEL TS Re port , t opic: bar gr aph of wat e r us age Hey, you're new here! I love new people, welcome You may want to subscribe to IELTS-Blog and get all the updates via email or via RSS feed Thanks for visiting! You are advised to spend a maximum of 20 minutes on this task The graph below shows annual water usage (in millions of cubic meters) by industries in Somecountry Write a report for a university tutor describing the information shown You should write at least 150 words The bargraph describes the water usage for every year in Somecountry in millions of cubic meters The water usage are shown in two trends , ground water and public supply Fuel and textiles are the ones that uses the least water, 10 of public supply and 70 and 80 of ground water Machinery are just the opposite of these two and has 10 of ground water and 100 of public supply Food/drinks, metal, paper and chemicals are all over 100 of ground water where chemicals peaks at dramaticlly 430 The highest number of water usage of public supplies also belongs to chemicals (240) Next on the list is food/drinks with 190, the others are under 100 Overall, the chemical industry uses a lot more water then the rest of the industries both ground water and public supplies, and in general most industries use ground water by far more then public supplies This is a good report – score 7, the trends are correctly noticed Suggested improvements: use units in addition to numbers (10 of what? Millions of cubic meters) Use more connective words to smoothly move from one paragraph to another Pay attention to grammar, see comments 2 IEL TS Re port , t opic: line gr aph of w age s gr ow t h Hey, you're new here! I love new people, welcome You may want to subscribe to IELTS-Blog and get all the updates via email or via RSS feed Thanks for visiting! You are advised to spend a maximum of 20 minutes on this task The graph below gives information on wages of Somecountry over a ten-year period Write a report for a university tutor describing the information shown You should write at least 150 words The linegraph describes the growth of wages in Somecountry from year 1993 to year 2003 The growth starts at two percent in 1993, but it doesn’t stay there very long before it rapidly doubles in 1994 Further on, the percentages declines to three percent in 1995, stays steady for year, before it start to rise slowly and ends up just under four percent in 1997 1998 is the best year where the wages peaked at six percent However, after 1998 the wages declines nearly every year Only a year after , the percentage drops to well under three percent, stays there on roughly three percent till 2000 In 2002 the wages reach the lowest point of just one percent growth Luckily the growth rises in 2003 at junst under two percent Overall, the growth rate in wages in Somecountry has shown striking changes through the ten years This is a good report It covers the task, divided correctly into paragraphs and the vocabulary is just right Problems: it has less than 150 words (146) and there are some grammatical errors Assuming the corrections were made, looks like Band IELTS Re por t , t opic : Table of home s choole d s t ude nt s p e r ce nt ages You are advised to spend a maximum of 20 minutes on this task The table below describes percentages of home schooled students in SomeCountry in 1999-2004 Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown You should write at least 150 words This table shows homeschooled students in Somecountry in year 1999-2004 in percenages The main trend is that all grades including kindergarten is growing for every year Kindergarten started highest at 2.4 and ended highest at 2.9 percent with a constant increase But grades 1-2 and grades 5-6 shows a little different trend, both starts at 1,5 percent in 1999 and declines a little bit in 2000 Both of them increased slowly in 2002 and both it holds that course to 2004 where grades 1-2 ends at 2,1 percent and grades 5-6 ends at 2.6 percent Grades 3-4 has a slow but steady growth througt all six years It starts at 1.6 percent in 1999 and increases 0.1 every year except in 2003 when it peaks up 0.2 percent Grades 7-8 starts at 1.6 percent and stays there for three years until it rapidly rises up to 2.2 and peaks at 2.5 in 2004 Overall, all grades including kindergarten has had a rise at rougly minimum percent and more in years This is a good report – score 7; here is how you can make it better: the coherence needs improvement, meaning the logical connection between sentences inside a paragraph and between paragraphs Use more connective words (Furthermore, However, etc) The groupings you?ve done are fine, but try to use more variations describing those statistics: use words such as numbers, figures, percentages, etc The grammar and the spelling need some extra attention 4.The table below provide information on rental charges and salaries in three areas of London Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below You should write at least 150 words Weekly rents per property (�/w) Area Notting Hill Regent's Park Fulham Salaries needed (�/year) bed bed bed bed bed bed 375 485 738 98,500127,500 194,000 325 450 650 85,500118,000 170,500 215 390 600 56,500102,500 157,500 model answer: The table shows two sets of related information: the relative cost, in pounds, of renting a property with one, two or three bedrooms in three different suburbs of London and an indication of the kind of annual salary you would need to be earning to rent in these areas Of the three areas mentioned, Notting Hill is the most expensive with weekly rents starting at �375 (salary approximately f 100,000) and rising to �738 per week for a 3bedroom property To afford this, you would require a salary in the region of �200,000 per annum Alternatively, Fulham is the cheapest area shown with rents ranging from �215 per week for a one bedroom property to �600 per week for a 3-bedroom property To rent in this area, salaries need to be somewhere between �85,000 and �170,000 depending on the number of bedrooms required For those able to pay in the middle price range for accommodation, Regent's Park might be a more suitable district (163 words) The diagram below shows how a central heating system in a house works Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant You should write at least 150 words model answer: This diagram provides an overview of a domestic central heating system It shows how the tank, boiler and pipes ensure a constant flow of hot water to both the radiators and the taps The cold water enters the house and is stored in a water storage tank in the roof From there � flows down to the boiler, located on the ground floor of the house The boiler, which is fuelled by gas or oil, heats up the water as it passes through it The hot water is then pumped round the house through a system of pipes and flows into the radiators, located in different rooms The water circulates through the radiators, which have small tubes inside them to help distribute the heat, and this warms each of the rooms Some of the water is directed to the taps to provide hot water for the house Once the water has been through the pipes and radiators, it is returned to the boiler to be re-heated and circulated round the house again Introduction: First sentence Overview: Second sentence Key features: Entry of cold water into boiler; circulation of hot waterto radiators and taps; return of waterto boiler Supporting information: direction of flow; types of boiler; location of radiators; radiator tubes Paragraph breaks: The paragraph breaks mark stages in the process Linkers: and, from there, then, once, again Reference words: it, both, there, which, this Topic vocabulary: enters, stored, roof, flows, ground floor, located, passes, pumped, system, circulates, heat, directed, returned, re-heated Less common vocabulary: ensure, fuelled by, heats up, distribute the heat, warms Structures: An appropriate mix of active and passive structures and a range of sentence types are used Length: 172 words The graph below gives information about the preferred leisure activities of Australian children Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown You should write at least 150 words model answer: The graph shows the preferred leisure activities of Australian children aged 5-14 As might be expected, it is clear from the data that sedentary pursuits are far more popular nowadays than active ones Of the 10,000 children that were interviewed, all the boys and girls stated that they enjoyed watching TV or videos in their spare time In addition, the second most popular activity, attracting 80% of boys and 60% of girls, was playing electronic or computer games While girls rated activities such as art and craft highly � just under 60% stated that they enjoyed these in their spare time � only 35% of boys opted for creative pastimes Bike riding, on the other hand, was almost as popular as electronic games amongst boys and, perhaps surprisingly, almost 60% of girls said that they enjoyed this too Skateboarding was relatively less popular amongst both boys and girls, although it still attracted 35% of boys and 25% of girls Length: 159 words The diagrams below give information about the Eiffel Tower in Paris and an outline project to extend it underground Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown You should write at least 150 words 10 Allow yourself 20 minutes for this task model answer: The graphs compare the number of deaths caused by six diseases in Someland in 1990 with the amount of research funding allocated to each of those diseases It can be clearly seen that the amount of research funding in many cases did not correlate with the seriousness of the disease in terms of numbers of deaths In 1990 there were around 0.2 million deaths from AIDS, 0.1 million deaths 66 from leprosy, 0.3 million deaths from tropical diseases, 0.5 million deaths from diarrhoea, 0.4 million deaths from malaria and 1.8 million deaths from TB These figures can be contrasted with the amount of funding allocated for each disease In 1990 AIDS received 180 million dollars in research funding, leprosy 80 million dollars in research funding, tropical diseases 79 million dollars in research funding, diarrhoea 60 million dollars in research funding, malaria 50 million dollars and TB 20 million dollars in research funding In conclusion it is clear that funding allocation for disease research in Someland is not wholly determined by the number of deaths for which each disease is responsible in a given year -50.Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information in the graph below You should write at least 150 words Allow yourself 20 minutes for this task model answer: The graph compares the rate of smoking in men and women in Someland between the years 1960 and 2000 It can be clearly seen that the rate of smoking for both men and women is currently declining and that fewer women have smoked throughout the period 67 In 1960, 600 men in every 1,000 was smoking This number decreased gradually to 500 by 1974 and continued to decrease but more steeply to 250 in 2000 In contrast, the rate of smoking in women in 1960 was very low at only 80 in every 1,000 By 1968 this increased to 170, and increased again but more steeply to 320 in 1977 The rate of female smokers then remained stable at 320 until 1984 at which point the figures began to decline and had dropped to 200 by 2000 In conclusion we can see that the rate of smoking in men dropped throughout the whole period but was always at a higher level than the female figures The rate of smoking in women increased until 1977 but then decreased for the rest of the period 51 The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of different employment status Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below You should write at least 150 words Allow yourself 20 minutes for this task model answer: 68 The chart shows the number of hours of leisure enjoyed by men and women in a typical week in 1998-9, according to gender and employment status Among those employed full-time, men on average had fifty hours of leisure, whereas women had approximately thirty-seven hours There were no figures given for male part-time workers, but female part-timers had forty hours of leisure time, only slightly more than women in full-time employment, perhaps reflecting their work in the home In the unemployed and retired categories, leisure time showed an increase for both sexes, as might have been expected Here too, men enjoyed more leisure time over eighty hours, compared with seventy hours for women, perhaps once again reflecting the fact that women spend more time working in the home than men Lastly, housewives enjoyed approximately fifty-four hours of leisure, on average There were no figures given for househusbands! Overall, the chart demonstrates that in the categories for which statistics on male leisure time were available, men enjoyed at least ten hours of extra leisure time -52 The chart below shows the sleep patterns of people in five different occupations according to a Canadian study Write a report for a university lecturer, describing the information below Give possible reasons for the differences You should write at least 150 words Allow yourself 20 minutes for this task asleep: Occupation Student awake: FullTruck Business time Doctor Driver Executive mother 6-7 pm 7-8 pm 8-9 pm 9-10 pm 10-11 pm 11-12 pm 12-1 am 69 1-2 am 2-3 am 3-4 am 4-5 am 5-6 am 6-7 am 7-8 am 8-9 am 9-10 am 10-11 am 11-12 am 12-1 pm 1-2 pm 2-3 pm 3-4 pm 4-5 pm 5-6 pm model answer: Differences in sleep patterns appear to reflect differences in individuals' occupations A Canadian study has pointed out, for example, that students typically sleep for a consecutive 8-hour period each night, from 11 p.m to a.m This may be because the central activity in their lives, study, takes place in normal daylight hours Similarly, business executives sleep consecutive hours, but perhaps because their jobs are especially busy and stressful they sleep for hours on average, getting up around a.m By contrast, truck drivers, probably because of their need to keep their trucks on the road over long periods, tend to sleep in two 3-hour blocks: one between and 10 a.m and another from to p.m Another occupation associated with broken sleep schedules is that of doctors They tend to retire to bed around a.m and start their day at a.m , but may be woken up to deal with emergencies in the middle of the night Finally, full-time mothers, especially those with young children, tend to sleep when their babies Typically, they will sleep from 10 p.m and be awoken at a.m to comfort their babies for a couple of hours They then go back to bed to wake at a.m., but nap for two hours or so in the early afternoon Thus the influence on one's sleep pattern is worthy of consideration when choosing an occupation 70 -53 The diagram below shows the average hours of unpaid work per week done by people in different categories (Unpaid work refers to such activities as childcare in the home, housework and gardening.) Describe the information presented below, comparing results for men and women in the categories shown Suggest reasons for what you see You should write at least 150 words You should spend about 20 minutes on this task model answer: The diagram reveals that the number of hours per week spent in unpaid work is unequally distributed between men and women In households where there are no children, women are reported to work some 30 hours per week in such tasks as housework and gardening Men's contribution to these unpaid jobs averages a considerably lower 18 hours When children enter the household, however, the inequality becomes even more pronounced In families of - children, men maintain approximately 71 the same number of hours of unpaid work as in childless households, but the number of hours women work in the home rises to 52 per week, much of it, on doubt, due to childcare responsibilities Interestingly, when there are three or more children in the household, men are found to work even fewer hours around the house than before the appearance of the third child Whereas women's unpaid hours rise to approximately 56 per week, the corresponding figure for men, 16, actually represents a decrease The data suggest that the increased presence of women in the paid work force has yet to lead to an increased role for men in the home 54 The table below shows social and economic indicators for four countries in 1994, according to United Nations statistics Describe the information shown below in your own words What implications the indicators have for the countries? You should write at least 150 words Allow yourself 20 minutes for this task Indicators CanadaJapan Peru Annual income per person (in 11100 15760 160 $US) Life expectancy at birth Daily calorie supply per person Adult literacy rate (%) Zaire 130 76 78 51 47 3326 2846 1927 1749 99 99 68 34 model answer: A glance at four indicators of economic and social conditions in four countries, Canada, Japan, Peru and Zaire, in 1994 reflects the great differences that exist between wealthier and poorer nations The table shows that Japan and Canada had annual incomes of $15 760 and $11 100 per person, respectively These figures were overwhelmingly greater than the corresponding figures of $160 in Peru and $130 in Zaire Health indicators, too, reflected overall levels of affluence in the four nations Life expectancy at birth, for example, was higher among the more economically developed countries Japan reported the highest life 72 expectancy, 78 This was followed by Canada, 76; Peru, 51; and Zaire, 47; This suggests that richer societies are able to put more money into health care than poorer ones The amount of calories consumed daily per person roughly followed the same ranking Canadians each consumed some 326 calories per day while the Japanese took 2846 calories The corresponding figures for Peru and Zaire were 1927 and 1749, respectively Literacy rates among adults, too, were higher in wealthier countries, no doubt a reflection of ability to invest in education Canada and Japan both reported literacy rates of 99%, while Peru claimed 68% Zaire, the least economically developed of the four countries, had a literacy rate of 34% The data appear to confirm the often cited link between national wealth and health and education standards -55 The diagram below shows the typical stages of consumer goods manufacturing, including the process by which information is fed back to earlier stages to enable adjustment Write a report for a university lecturer describing the process shown You should write at least 150 words You should spend about 20 minutes on this task 73 model answer: Most consumer goods go through a series of stages before they emerge as finished products ready for sale Raw materials and manufactured components comprise the initial physical input in the manufacturing process Once obtained, these are stored for later assembly But assembly first depends upon the production planning stage, where it is decided how and in what quantities the stored materials will be processed to create sufficient quantities of finished goods The production planning stage itself follows the requirements of the goods' design stage that proceeds from extensive research After assembly, the products are inspected and tested to maintain quality control l Those units that pass the 74 inspection and testing stages are then packaged, despatched and offered for sale in retail outlets The level of sales, which is the end point of the manufacturing process, helps determine production planning A product's design is not only the result of product research, but is also influenced by testing and market research If the testing stage (after assembly and inspection) reveals unacceptable problems in the finished product, then adjustments will have to be made to the product's design Similarly, market research, which examines the extent and nature of the demand for products, has the role of guiding product design to suit consumer demands which may change with time Market research, while influenced by product sales, also serves to foster future sales by devising suitable advertising for the goods Thus the reality of consumer goods manufacturing goes well beyond a simple linear production process -56 The chart and graph below give information about sales and share prices for Coca-Cola Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below You should write at least 150 words You should spend about 20 minutes on this task model answer: The pie chart shows the worldwide distribution of sales of Coca-Cola in the year 2000 and the graph shows the change in share prices between 1996 75 and 2001 In the year 2000, Coca-Cola sold a total of 17.1 billion cases of their fizzy drink product worldwide The largest consumer was North America, where 30.4 per cent of the total volume was purchased The second largest consumer was Latin America Europe and Asia purchased 20.5 and 16.4 per cent of the total volume respectively, while Africa and the Middle East remained fairly small consumers at per cent of the total volume of sales Since 1996, share prices for Coca-Cola have fluctuated In that year, shares were valued at approximately $35 Between 1996 and 1997, however, prices rose significantly to $70 per share They dipped a little in mid-1997 and then peaked at $80 per share in mid-98 From then until 2000 their value fell consistently but there was a slight rise in mid-2000 57.The graphs below show the types of music albums purchased by people in Britain according to s3x and age Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below You should write at least 150 words You should spend about 20 minutes on this task 76 model answer: The three graphs provide an overview of the types of music people purchase in the UK At first glance we see that classical music is far less popular than pop or rock music While slightly more women than men buy pop music, the rock market is dominated by men with 30% buying rock, compared to 17% of women From the first graph we see that interest in pop music is steady from age 16 to 44 with 20% of the population continuing to buy pop CDs after the age of 45 The interest in rock music reaches its peak among the 25 to 34 year olds, though it never sells as well as pop Interest also drops off after the age of 35 with an even sharper fall from age 45 onwards, a pattern which is the opposite to the classical music graph You should spend about 20 minutes on this task 77 -58 The graphs below show the numbers of male and female workers in 1975 and 1995 in several employment sectors of the republic of Freedonia Write a report for a university teacher describing the information shown You should write at least 150 words model answer: 78 The two decades between 1975 and 1995 brought significant changes in the representation of women in Freedonia's work force, according to the graphs In 1975, for example, some 300 000 men and 250 000 women worked in the communications sector Twenty years later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550 000 A similar situation was seen in the wholesale and retail trade sector, where the number of women rose from about 550 000 in 1975 to almost 800 000 two decades later The number of men in this sector remained stable over the period, at around 700 000 Women also made gains in both the finance/banking industries and in the defencerelated public sector Whereas some 125 000 women worked in finance and banking institutions in 1975, the number increased to 450 000 by 1995 The number of men grew only marginally from 425 000 to 480 000 over the same period In defence, the number of men declined from 225 000 to 200 000, while the number of women rose from 25 000 to over 100 000 Two sectors that retained stable employment numbers for both men and women were manufacturing, which had about 300 000 women and 650 000 men in both surveyed years, and the public sector (non-defence), which employed 650 000 women and 850 000 men Thus, women appear to have made gains in the Freedonian work force but not at the expense of men (243 words) -59 Eating sweet foods produces acid in the mouth, which can cause tooth decay (High acid levels are measured by low pH values) Describe the information below and discuss the implications for dental health You should write at least 150 words 79 model answer: Anyone who has visited a dentist has been told that eating excessive amounts of sweets risks harming the teeth This is because sweets lower pH levels in the mouth to dangerous levels When the pH level in the mouth is kept above 5.5, acidity is such that teeth are unlikely to be in danger of decay Sweet foods, however, cause pH in the mouth to drop for a time, and the longer pH levels remain below 5.5, the greater the opportunity for decay to occur By comparing fruit sugar, cane sugar and honey, which are all common ingredients of sweet foods, we find that cane sugar lowers pH levels for the longest period, thus producing the greatest risk of the three Approximately five minutes aftfter consuming cane sugar, pH levels drop to as little as pH 3.5 They then begin to rise slowly, but not rise above pH 5.5 until at least 30 minutes have elapsed By contrast, fruit sugar, which causes the mouth's acidity to fall to just above pH 4, poses a danger for a shorter period: tooth decay is unlikely 20 minutes after consumption Honey appears an even less risky substance Though acidity falls to about pH 4.75 within five minutes of consumption, it returns to above pH 5.5 in under fifteen minutes The implications, then, are that people who insist on eating sweet foods should be aware of the ingredients, and that fruit sugar or honey appear preferable to cane sugar (242 words) 80 [...]... at least 15 0 words Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience Family type Proportion of people from each household type living in poverty single aged person 6% (5 4,00 0) aged couple 4% (4 8,00 0) single, no children couple, no children 19 % ( 359, 00 0) 7% (2 11 ,00 0) 21% (2 32,00 0) sole parent 12 % (9 33,00 0) couple with children 11 % (1 ,837,00 0) all households... reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant You should write at least 15 0 words Underground Railways Systems City Date opened Passengers per Kilometres of year route (in millions) London 18 63 394 775 Paris 19 00 19 9 11 91 Tokyo 19 27 15 5 19 27 Washington DC 19 76 12 6 14 4 Kyoto 19 81 11 45 Los Angeles 20 01 28 50 model answer: The table shows the details regarding the underground railway systems... collocations (gain popularity, remarkable recovery, decrease slightly) and some valid comparison of the music sites However, some sentences are long and confusing (paragraph 5), some collocations are inaccurate (slight increased, reaching to their peaks) and there is some repetition (7 th day, 3rd day, 11 th day) Some words are spelt incorrectly (poeple, Improoving, visiters, biegining) 11 The table... Australia in 19 99 On average, 11 % of all households, comprising almost two million people, were in this position However, those consisting of only one parent or a single adult had almost doubt this proportion of poor people, with 21% and 19 % respectively Couples generally tended to be better off, with lower poverty levels for couples without children (7 %) than those with children (1 2 %) It is noticeable... students are women (1 43 words) 25 The line graph below shows the number of annual visits to Australia by overseas residents The table below gives information on the country of origin where the visitors came from Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information given You should write at least 15 0 words 35 NUMBER OF VISITORS (million) 19 75 2005 SOUTH KOREA 2.9 9 .1 JAPAN 3.2 12 .0 CHINA 0.3... little different trend, both started at 1, 5 percent in 19 99 and declines (declined) a little bit in 2000 Both of them increased slowly in 2002 and both held that course to 2004 where grades 1- 2 reached 2 ,1 percent and grades 5-6 reached 2.6 percent Grades 3-4 had a slow but steady growth throughout all six years It started at 1. 6 percent in 19 99 and increased by 0 .1 every year except in 2003 when it peaked... years This is a good report It covers the task, divided correctly into paragraphs and the vocabulary is just right Problems: it has less than 15 0 words (1 4 6) and there are some grammatical errors Assuming the corrections were made, looks like Band 7 17 13 The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 19 99 Summarise the information by selecting... write at least 15 0 words The linegraph describes the growth of wages in Somecountry from year 19 93 to year 2003 The growth starts at two percent in 19 93, but it doesn �t stay there very long before it rapidly doubles in 19 94 Further on, the percentages decline to three percent in 19 95, stays steady for year, before it start to rise slowly and ends up just under four percent in 19 97 19 98 is the best... customers in Cransdon, Hindon and Garlsdon, the out-of-town site (S 1) would probably offer more advantages (1 79 words) -17 .The table below shows CO2 emissions for different forms of transport in the European Union The Pie Chart shows the percentage of European Union funds being spent on different forms of transport You should write at least 15 0 words Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant... receives credit from the university (1 92 words) 19 In June 19 96, an experimental flu vaccine was trialled in alarge country town on females only Write a report for a university tutor describing theinformation shown in the diagrams below 27 You should write at least 15 0 words The diagrams show data for a flu epidemic which hit a large country town in 19 96 Figure 1 gives the number of persons who died;