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IELTS Writing Task 2

The bar charts compare class sizes, retirement ages, and percentages of dependents in various countries from 2000-2050. Most notably: - South Korea had the largest class sizes, around 35 students, while Iceland had the smallest at 15-17 students. - Most countries' retirement ages increased from 2004-2008, except for French women and Italian men whose ages remained constant. - The percentage of dependents is projected to increase substantially worldwide and in many countries, with Japan expected to have the highest at 49% by 2050.

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IELTS Writing Task 2

The bar charts compare class sizes, retirement ages, and percentages of dependents in various countries from 2000-2050. Most notably: - South Korea had the largest class sizes, around 35 students, while Iceland had the smallest at 15-17 students. - Most countries' retirement ages increased from 2004-2008, except for French women and Italian men whose ages remained constant. - The percentage of dependents is projected to increase substantially worldwide and in many countries, with Japan expected to have the highest at 49% by 2050.

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The bar chart displays the average class size in primary school and lower

secondary school in six nations in the year 2006. On the whole, the class size of
primary school in the UK and Denmark was larger than that of lower secondary
school, whereas in other featured countries, it was smaller.

Looking at the bar chart, it can be seen that the UK and Denmark were reported
with higher number of students in primary school (23 and 21 respectively)
compared to those in lower secondary school (22 and 19 respectively). Similar
trend can be observed in the world average, in which students in primary
school reached 26 while lower secondary school students was registered at 24.

It is interesting to note that South Korea had the highest number of students in
both primary and secondary classes (approximately 35 in both classes).
Following close behind, Japan was recorded with 26 primary students and 31
students of secondary level. As for Mexico, a huge discrepancy was witnessed
between student numbers of primary and secondary school, which the former
was only about 20 students, while the latter was over 30 students. Iceland,
however, got the smallest primary and secondary class size of just 15 and 17
respectively.
The bar chart illustrates the different preferences of 60 students on 5 subjects
taught in school A and school B. It is interesting to note that the chosen
subjects varies greatly between the two schools.

Regarding school A, more than half the students prefer sport (36), which is six
times more than the number of school B students. Science is also another
subject favored more by students in school A, in which 9 school A students
choose it while only 2 school B students like the subject. In contrast, the
remaining subjects remain unpopular among students in school A.

As for school B, students mostly choose craft and drawing as their favorite
subject, which is over sixfold the number of students in school A. Language is
the second favorite subject to be learned in school B chosen by 18 students.
Social science is the third most liked subject, with 10 students of school B
liking it, almost double the number of students of school A.

Overall, craft and drawing is the least favored subject in school A, whereas
science is the least chosen subject in school B
The bar charts above illustrates the four different types of citrus fruits exported
to the top three countries, measured in thousand tonnes, in the year 2012. It is
interesting to note that the export quantities of different citrus fruits varied
among different countries in the given year.

With regard to oranges, it can be seen it was the most popular exported fruit.
Specifically, South Africa was reported with the highest number of oranges
exported amounting to 1020 thousand tonnes. This was followed behind by
Egypt (500 thousand tonnes) and the United States, which imported the lowest
number of oranges among the three countries, at 400 thousand tonnes.

As for lemons, the second most imported fruit in the four categories, it was
reported with the highest number of imports in Mexico (approximately 500
thousand tonnes), which is more than twofold the imported quantities in the
USA (200 thousand tonnes). The minimum number was imported by Argentina
at 100 thousand tonnes.

Grapefruits, on the other hand, had its highest imported number from Turkey
(400 thousand tonnes) and that of second highest from Mexico at 300 thousand
tonnes. Standing at the third place, the USA had only 200 thousand tonnes of
exported grapefruits.

On a final note, Mexico also was the country with the largest import of other
citrus fruits, while Egypt and the USA only accounted for a tiny proportion of
the whole volume.
The two bar charts illustrate the retirement age of males and females in six
different countries in 2004 and 2008. It is interesting to note that the average
retirement age experienced an upward trend in all countries with the exception
of Italy, among men, and France, among women, in which it remained constant
in the given years.

Looking at the bar chart, it can be seen that the Danish men and women retired
at the age of 60 and 59 respectively in 2004, but in 2008, they both retired at
the age of 61. The average age for retirement in France was 58 for both males
and females, the lowest number of retirement age among the countries. In
2008, French males retired at 59 of age, while French females still retired at 58
years old. An opposing trend can be seen in Italy, where man retained their
retirement age at 62 during the given years, but women underwent a change in
their age for retirement from 58 (2004) to 59 (2008).

Similar pattern can be seen in the changes of retirement age among Dutch,
Swedish, and British sexes. The three countries all had an increase of one year
in their retiring age in the two mentioned years 2004 and 2008.

Overall, a striking feature of the graph is that the retirement age for both sexes
was the highest in Sweden compared with the other countries.
The bar chart illustrates the dependent percentages of 5 given countries and the
world average in 2000 along with the estimated data in 2050. It is interesting to
note that the dependent proportions in the mentioned countries and world
average experienced an upward trend with the exception of Indonesia,
decreasing over the period, from 2000 to 2050.

Looking at the bar chart, it can be seen that, the percentage of world average
dependents is expected to increase almost twofold from 25% (2000) to 42%
(2050). A similar trend can be observed in Indonesia and China, in which the
proportion of dependents in percent has a rising projection within the
mentioned periods from 34% and 33% respectively in 2000 to 39% and 35% in
2050.

The largest discrepancy can be witnessed in Korea dependents. Its projected


percentage will undergo over a twofold growth between 2000 and 2050
(approximately 21% to 42%). Quite the same pattern is seen in the country of
Japan with the figure, measured in percentage, is predicted to jump from 33%
up to 49%, overtaking Korea in the leading position of dependents within the
year of 2050.

Overall, Japan is expected to gain the highest percentage of dependents among


the above countries in the year 2050.
The given bar chart compares the 15-min drive service in the medical,
educational, and postal fields between people living in the countryside and the
those in the city within a specific region in the UK. It is interesting to note that
almost all urbanites can gain access to all the mentioned services.

Looking at the chart, it is obvious that cent-percent urban and rural people have
access to the medical facilities. Both are all within fifteen-minute drive to a
doctor. Likewise, secondary school is also within the 15-minute reach for
residents from the cities and the villages.

Quite a difference can be observed in the case of postal and primary school
services. For the former, all city-dwellers can arrive at the post office within
their comfort and proximity, but five percent of villagers have to drive longer
and further should they need postal service. However, the largest discrepancy
lies in the availability of primary school for both urban and rural areas.
Whereas 100% of city inhabitants have no trouble getting access to primary
school service, approximately one third of rural denizens must resort to far-off
primary schools for the education of their children.

Overall, rural and urban areas share identical access to medical, postal, and
secondary school, but meet with difference in the service access of the primary
school.
The bar chart above illustrates the proportion of both genders at different age
groups who refuse to do physical exercises in the country Australia. It is
interesting to note that all the age groups, with the exception of people between
45 and 64 years, include more females than males that skip physical activity.

Looking at the bar chart, it can be observed that the 15-24 age group is the
most active with only about 14% men and 17% women who do not take
physical activity. The age group of 25-34 years old was reported with a little
higher percentage in the leisure practice of people. As age advances, the easy
lead of life becomes increasingly more and more common among people, apart
from 65 to 74 years old. More specifically, the 65 and 74 years is recorded with
fewer men and women doing no physical activity than the age group of 55 and
64 years of age. Surprisingly, the most striking feature can be seen in the over
75s, in which the largest number of males and females without habit of
physical exercises is presented, approximately 42% and 55% respectively.

Overall, it is clear that as age goes up, more and more people start to remain
inactive in their healthy and physical activities except for the 65-74 years old.
The featured bar chart presents the surveyed data of the young over the best
approach to tackle global warming in the four mentioned countries. It is
interesting to note that lifestyle changes is rated to be the best approach to solve
the said environmental issue in all the four countries.

Looking at the bar chart, it can be observed that half of young Portuguese rated
lifestyle changes as the most efficient approach for global warming. Just under
a quarter of young people in Portugal chosen government regulations and
environmental issues as the best ways to consider for solving global warming
(20% and 17% respectively).

Quite a similar trend can be observed in Spain with up to 39% of young people
choose lifestyle changes to be the optimum solution for global warming, while
around 20% and less accounts for the young’s selection of government
regulations and environmental issues to be the most possible methods.

As for Italy and Netherlands, minor differences presented in the percentage of


young people choosing among the four options; however, lifestyle changes is
still considered the best measure to be taken with 30% for Italian youth and
23% for Dutch youth

Overall, only a minority of the young openly admitted that none of the
mentioned factors can help reduce global warming.
The presented bar chart illustrates the different purposes of using the Internet
between Canadian males and females, from 15 to 24 years old, in 2000. It is
interesting to note that the least usage for the Internet according to the two
genders is for research and education.

Look at the chart, it is clear that good and services had the highest percentage
of use among men (71%), while the second highest percentage of use for men
lied in e-mail (70%). The majority of women, on the other hand, mostly used
their Internet to check email (71%), but only 61% of Canadian women used the
Internet for the purchase of goods and services.

As for chat rooms, quite an equal proportion of males and females can be
observed in the given year with 50% of Canadian males and 48% of Canadian
females joined Internet chat rooms.

Online shopping, in contrast, was done by more Canadian women on the


Internet in comparison with men. Over a third of Canadian women were
reported to do shopping online (38%), whereas just over a quarter of Canadian
men were interested in shopping on the Internet.

Games, however, attract participation from both the sexes, in which up to 64%
of males and 58% of females played games online. Research and education was
the least popular activity among both men and women of Canada, 13% men
and 9% women used the Internet for this.

Overall, women outnumbered men in the percentage of use on the Internet for
e-mailing and online shopping, but men overtook women in the other given
purposes.
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