WRITING TASK 1 - PIE CHART

USEFUL LANGUAGE

 The largest percentage/ proportion

 Making comparison:
 Linking devices (while, whereas, as opposed to, compared to)

 Comparative structure
Coffee in the UK is more expensive than in France.
The cost of coffee in Spain is slightly cheaper than in France.
 Superlative structure
The most expensive coffee is in the UK, at £2.90.
 The second most expensive is in France, at £2.
 As…as
Coffee in France is not as expensive as in the UK.
Coffee in France does not cost as much as in the UK, at £2 and £2.90
respectively.

1.
The two pie charts below show the percentages of industry sectors’ contribution to
the economy of Turkey in 2000 and 2016.

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2.
The pie chart below shows the average household expenditures in Japan and
Malaysia in the year 2010.

The charts illustrate how Japanese and Malaysian people spent their money on different
goods and services of households in 2010.

Overall, it is clear that householders in both countries spent the largest proportion of their
income on housing and food, while healthcare was the service receiving the lowest share of
expenditure.
The proportion of spending on housing was highest in Malaysia, at 34% while Japanese
families allocated just 21% of their budget for this category. In terms of food, the figures for
both nations were similar, at 24% and 27% for Malaysia and Japan respectively.

Regarding the remaining categories, transport accounted for exactly a fifth of total
expenditure in Japan, twice as much as the figure for Malaysia. On the other hand,
healthcare received the least amount of money in two countries (6% in Japan and 3% in
Malaysia) while the percentage of money spent on other goods and services were quite
significant, at over a quarter in each country.

3.

The pie charts below compare water usage in San Diego, California and the rest of
the world.

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