Scribd
Upload
4 views7 pages

Describing Graphs Practice

The document provides guidelines for writing an IELTS Task 1 report, focusing on how to describe graphs and trends. It includes examples of how to paraphrase titles, give overviews, and detail specific data trends for fast food consumption and computer package downloads. The main trends highlighted are the decline in fish and chips consumption and the rise in popularity of pizza and hamburgers, as well as the download patterns of ActiveX, Java, and Net packages.

Uploaded by

Magda Carvalho
Copyright
© All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
4 views7 pages

Describing Graphs Practice

The document provides guidelines for writing an IELTS Task 1 report, focusing on how to describe graphs and trends. It includes examples of how to paraphrase titles, give overviews, and detail specific data trends for fast food consumption and computer package downloads. The main trends highlighted are the decline in fish and chips consumption and the rise in popularity of pizza and hamburgers, as well as the download patterns of ActiveX, Java, and Net packages.

Uploaded by

Magda Carvalho
Copyright
© All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

• You need to begin with one or two sentences that state what the IELTS writing

task 1 shows. To do this, paraphrase the title of the graph, making sure you put in
a time frame if there is one.

• Here is an example for the above line graph:

• The line graph compares the fast food consumption of teenagers in Australia
between 1975 and 2000, a period of 25 years.

• Give an Overview
• You also need to state what the main trend or trends in the graph are.
Don’t give detail such as data here – you are just looking for something
that describes what is happening overall.
• The line graph compares the fast-food consumption of teenagers in Australia between 1975 and 2000, a period
of 25 years. Overall, the consumption of fish and chips declined over the period, whereas the amount of pizza
and hamburgers that were eaten increased.

• In 1975, the most popular fast food with Australian teenagers was fish and chips, being eaten 100 times a year.
This was far higher than Pizza and hamburgers, which were consumed approximately 5 times a year. However,
apart from a brief rise again from 1980 to 1985, the consumption of fish and chips gradually declined over the
25-year timescale to finish at just under 40.

• In sharp contrast to this, teenagers ate the other two fast foods at much higher levels. Pizza consumption
increased gradually until it overtook the consumption of fish and chips in 1990. It then levelled off from 1995 to
2000. The biggest rise was seen in hamburgers as the occasions they were eaten increased sharply throughout
the 1970’s and 1980’s, exceeding that of fish and chips in 1985. It finished at the same level that fish and chips
began, with consumption at 100 times a year.

• (194 words)
The bar chart illustrates the download rate per week of ActiveX, Java and Net computer packages over a period of five weeks.

It can clearly be seen that ActiveX was the most popular computer package to download, whilst Net was the least popular of

the three.

To begin, downloads of ActiveX and Java showed similar patterns, with both gradually increasing from week 1 to week 5.

However, the purchases of Active X remained significantly higher than that of the other product over this time frame. In week

1, purchases of ActiveX stood at around 75,000, while those of Java were about 30,000 lower. With the exception of a slight

fall in week 4, downloading of ActiveX kept increasing until it reached a peak in the final week of just over 120,000. Java

downloads also increased at a steady rate, finishing the period at 80,000.

The product that was downloaded the least was Net. This began at slightly under 40,000, and, in contrast to the

other two products, fell over the next two weeks to reach a low of approximately 25,000. It then increased sharply

over the following two weeks to finish at about 50,000, which was well below that of ActiveX.
Homework Practice

You might also like