BAND 5.0 IELTS ESSAY SAMPLE: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NEWS ACCESS METHODS IN CANADA AND AUSTRALIA

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The pie charts compare ways of accessing the news in Canada and Australia.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Essay Sample

The pie chart illustrates the proportion of favorite take away

foods in Canadian restaurants, and the total number of Indian restaurants over a period of 55 years from 1960 to 2015.

Looking from an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that Chinese and Indian foods had the most

popularity among the Canadian population. Moreover, there was an upward trend in the restaurants from India region.

Regarding the pie chart, the Chinese and Indian foods were the most favorable with 34% and 26%, respectively. Hence, the Italian and Persian showed relatively the same percentile, around 9%to 11%. It is also noticeable that Thai foods were only chosen by 3% compared with the other ones.

In terms of the figure of Indian restaurants, there were approximately 500 restaurants, which increased

substantially until 2000, it reached the point of 8000. This was 4 times greater than its beginning sum. In the next fifteen years, the number of restaurants hovered between 8000-9000.