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Writing Task 1 - Line Graph, Bar Graph and Pie Chart

The pie charts show the annual expenditures of a UK school from 1981 to 2001. Overall, salaries for teaching staff comprised the largest portion of spending each year, while insurance costs were the lowest. Between 1981 and 1991, spending on furniture/equipment decreased 10% while teacher salaries rose 10%. Other staff salaries declined 6% during this period. By 2001, spending on furniture/equipment increased to 23% while resources declined to 9%, with insurance costs rising steadily over the entire time period depicted.

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Writing Task 1 - Line Graph, Bar Graph and Pie Chart

The pie charts show the annual expenditures of a UK school from 1981 to 2001. Overall, salaries for teaching staff comprised the largest portion of spending each year, while insurance costs were the lowest. Between 1981 and 1991, spending on furniture/equipment decreased 10% while teacher salaries rose 10%. Other staff salaries declined 6% during this period. By 2001, spending on furniture/equipment increased to 23% while resources declined to 9%, with insurance costs rising steadily over the entire time period depicted.

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WRITING TASK 1:

LINE GRAPH, BAR GRAPH & PIE CHART


#1
The graph below shows how people buy music. Summarise the information by selecting and
reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
Sample Introduction

The graph illustrates various


trends in the buying habits
concerning music which is
measured in percentage
between the years 2011 and
2018. It presents three
different methods (streaming,
downloading and buying CDs)
Second Paragraph - Overview

Overall, both downloads and


physical sales of music had
steadily declined. The latter
depicts a falling trend after
2011, while the downturn for
the former began in 2014.
However, there has been a
sharp rise/upsurge in people
streaming music since 2013.
Third Paragraph - Body Paragraph I
In 2011, the majority of music sales
were of CDs, at 55% of all sales. In
contrast, streaming was not common
at all at only 5%. Also, although people
had started to download music, it only
represented 35% of sales. As sales of
CDs began to fall, downloads started
to rise. They rose steadily and
downloads overtook physical sales in
mid-2013. During the same period,
streaming doubled to 10% but then it
started to grow more dramatically.
Fourth Paragraph - Body Para II

Downloads peaked in 2014 at


about 43% of sales but fell to 30%
by 2018. This was slightly higher
than physical sales, which shrank to
25%. Streaming, on the other hand,
overtook both of them and
accounted for just over 40% of
sales in 2018.
#2

Exercise 1
Read the following sample answer. Complete the
answer by filling the gaps with the words in the box.

• By Contrast
• Whereas
• Except
• Higher
• Highest
• However
• Largest
• Among
• Indicates
• Lowest
• Compares
• Overall
Read the following sample answer. Complete the answer by filling the gaps with the words in the box.
By Contrast Whereas Except Higher
Maximum However Largest Among
Indicates Lowest Compares Overall

The bar chart _________ how consumers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan allocated different
shares of total spending to categories such as food, housing, and transportation in 2009.
________, the data _________ that housing and health care shares of total expenditures were _________ in the United
States than in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in 2009, ________ Americans had the lowest clothing share. Canada
had the highest clothing and transportation shares, and Japan had the highest food share, _______ the countries compared.
It can be seen that the United States had the _______ housing expenditure share, 26% of total expenditures in 2009. The
United Kingdom and Japan followed, with 24% and 22%, respectively. Canada had the _________ housing share at 21%.
Housing was the _______ expenditure component in all countries _______ Japan.
___________, Canada had the largest transportation share of all four countries at 20%. The Americans and the British
invested in the next-highest transportation shares, 17% and 15%, respectively. Japanese invested the lowest, at
10%._________, in Japan, consumers spent 23% of their total expenditures on food in 2009. The United Kingdom had the
second-highest share at 20%. Canada, with 15%, and the United States, with 14% had the lowest food expenditure shares
among the countries studied.
Exercise 2
In the text below replace the words and phrases with synonyms. There can be more than one answer.

The bar chart 1. provides information about the results of a survey on the reasons behind learning
languages among 1,000 native and non-native English speakers at a university in Australia.
Overall, the most 2. noticeable 3. characteristic of the chart is that those students for whom English is not
their mother tongue had a more positive attitude to language learning than native speakers. Improvement in
job prospects is 4. quoted by just over 90% of non-native speakers as a/an 5. reason for learning languages,
followed closely by usefulness for travel and work and importance for studying at 90, 90 and 6. almost 90
respectively. In this 7. category, personal development improvement 8. is 9. last with 70%.
This attitude to language acquisition 10. is the opposite of native speakers, whose approval was lower than
non-native speakers 11. for all items. 12. Whereas improvement in job prospects, for example, attracted the
most approval with 60% giving it as a reason, this was 13. significantly less than for non-native speakers.
Usefulness for work and improvement in personal development came next at 50% of 14. those sampled.
Only 20% of native speakers, however, think learning languages is enjoyable with only 25% 15. regarding it
important for studying.
#3

Q. The graph below shows


the student involvement in
three sports in a school based
on which grades they are
studying in.
Summarize the information
by selecting and reporting
the main features and make
comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
Sample Answer – Bar Graph
The graph presents the engagement of grades 8, 9 and 10 students in three different outdoor games
namely: cricket, soccer and basketball. The unit is measured in percentage.
Overall, it is evident that most of the students prefer to play the cricket regardless of what grade they are in
as compared to soccer and basketball.
The trend presented in the graph depicts that more than half of the grade IX students prefer cricket while
the other graders have marginally lesser interests in joining this sport with 45% and 40% cricket players
respectively. However, it is quite obvious that the participants from these grades mainly play cricket.
On the other hand, football comes at the second choice as an outdoor sport among these pupils. At least a
quarter of grade VIII students joined in to play football while roughly one-third of ninth graders are involved
in playing this sport. Furthermore, more than 30% of students in grade ten participate in football. Lastly,
basketball is one of the least preferred sport by the students of these classes having less than a third of the
students interested in playing it. The students across the grades display a dynamic predisposition for the
sports.
#4
Sample Answer – Pie Chart
Introduction - The pie-charts illustrates alterations made in the yearly expenditure of a school in the United Kingdom
from the year 1981 to 2001.
Overview - Overall, during the course of three decades from 1981, the school spends most on the salaries of the
teaching staff whereas lowest on the insurance. Although there has been growth in the expense of infrastructure like
furniture and equipment, the gradual decrease in the expenditure especially in the payment of other working staff is
also being observed during this tenure.
Compare & Contrast BP1 - With regards to the period between 1981 to 1991, there is a 10% decrease in furniture
and equipment, an equal proportion of rise has been observed seen in the salaries of the teachers. We observe a
percent increase in the funds spend on insurance and 5% on resources like books but a 6% decline in the other staff
salaries.
Compare & Contrast BP2 - The spending on furniture and equipment and resources such as books were the same in
1981, which was 15% of the total amount. Whereas in 1991, more money spent on resources than furniture and
equipment, 20% and 5% respectively, but the reverse is true for the year 2001. 23% of the spending was for the
purpose of buying furniture and equipment and only 9% of the amount for the resources like books. Starting from
the year 1981 to 2001, the amount spent on insurance increased steadily.
Words - 228

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