BAND 5.5 IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 Samples

In this page, you will find a variety of essay samples corresponding to the BAND 5.5 score. Use these essays as tools to learn, understand and evolve your own writing style for the IELTS examination.

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The line chart below shows the results of a survey giving the reasons why people moved to the capital city of a particular country.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts demonstrate the portion of household spendings int New Zealand and the UK in years 1980 and 2008. Overall, the UK seems to maintain the habit of spending the most on leisure, while initially the biggest portion appears to belong to food and drink in New Zealand and then getting replaced by utility bills. The spending on the not listed expenses remains as the smallest piece in the ch ...

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The bar chart and table show information about students from abroad studying in four English-speaking countries in 2004 and 2012.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart gives information about number foreign pupils studying in four different countries in English, and the table illustrate percentage of alien students in total students amount studying in English-spoken countries in 2004 and 2012. It is clear that the amount of studying in USA had increased dramatically from approximately 175 pupils in 2004 to just 245 students in 2012. Meanwhile ...

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The charts show projections for global production by sector in 2040 and 2060.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie chart illustrates the percentages of plans for worldwide in future in 20 years from 2040 to 2060. Overall, the proportion of projections percentages are divided to six part that 2 of them are more than others. The services and manufacturing percentages with a little bit more go up are the most sector in 20 years ahead. The manufacturing with 31% in 2040 and 33% in 2060, and Services w ...

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The chart and graph below give information about participants who have entered the Olympics since it began.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The diagrams show the number of athlete who participate in Olympics since it begun and according to gender how different gender attend in this tournament. In the year 1924 when Olympics was hold, participants were around 3000 athletes. this number rise throughout the years by 1984 and hit the 6000 people. thereafter attendees number suddenly have grown . by the year 2012 reached to 11000 athle ...

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The graph below shows the average daily sales of selected food items at the Brisk Café, by season.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart shows the average of food and snacks that are sell in brisk café in one day in two seasons, winter and summer. As it shows, in winter the most favourable food is hot coffee with more than 70% of selling amount but Iced coffee has percent whivh is about 2. Although, it is extremely different in summer. It has been illustrate that Iced coffee is more desirable in summer with 40% and ...

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The bar chart shows the percentages of the Canadian workforce in five major industries in 1850 and 2020.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart provides percentages of Canadian workers in top 5 industries manufacturing, services, agriculture/fishing, construction and energy/water in the years 1850 and 2020. Overall, the difference between percentages for other major industries between the years 1850 and 2020 is considerable and also the Canadian workforce's wish to agriculture and fishing, showed a dramatically increase ...

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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.

The given bar chart illustrates the top 10 countries in terms of generating and consuming electrical power in 2014. Units are measured in billion kWh. Overall, China and the United States were leading with significant figures, while the Republic of Korea was in last place. Predominantly, almost all the countries consumed power less than they produced. China and the USA generated electrical ...

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The bar chart and table show information about students from abroad studying in four English-speaking countries in 2004 and 2012.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart and table show information about students from overseas studying in four English-speaking countries between 2004 till 2012.As the bar chart indicates the number of the foreign students has increased in all the four countries . The USA with the total numbers of the students about 250000 is in the first place and the Canada with about a fifth of the numbers stands the last with a ...

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The pie charts below compare the proportion of energy capacity in gigawatts (GW) in 2015 with the predictions for 2040.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts compare the number of four energy capacities in GW in 2015 with the estimations for 2040. Overall, fossil fuels were the most popular energy capacity in the previous year while fossil fuels will still considered to be the most consumed of the energy capacity in the future year. In 2015, people did not use solar energy a lot but in 2040, nuclear energy is estimated to be the l ...

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The graph shows data about the annual earnings of three bakeries in Calgary, 2000-2010.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given line graphs provide information about yearly income of three bakeries (Amandine, Mary Bakeshop and Bolo) over a decade from 2000 to 2010 in Calgary. The earring data are represented in dollars. Looking from an overall perspective, it can be concluded that the Bolo and Amandine witnessed an upward trend, whereas Mari sales followed an opposite trend over given period. It is also ...

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The chart and graph below give information about participants who have entered the Olympics since it began.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line chart gives information on the number of particinapts have took part in Olampics since the begining and the bar chart compare the number of men and women during the same period . Looking from an overall perspective, the number of competitors rose significantly specially up to 1984. It can be seen that in 1924, the number of participants have stood at nearly 3000 which were mostly men. ...

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The chart below shows the proportion of businesses making e-commerce purchases by industry in Canada between 2015 and 2019.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart gives information on proportion of businesses making e-commerce purchases in five different section in Canada between 2015 and 2019. Looking from an overall perpective, information and communication filed comprises the highest proportion in contrast to construction section. As the table shows, in 2015, the amount of business making e-commerce purchases in industry in Retail and ...

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The bar chart shows the percentages of the Canadian workforce in five major industries in 1850 and 2020.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given bar chart alustrates workforce of Canada in 5 seperate industries in 1850 and 170 years later in 2020. Overall, its obvious there is a dramatic increase in service industy. In contrast the water and energy industry has been witnessed no significant change. The workforce in manufacturing, stayed at the top of all industries in 1850 which is about 36%. But it fall in to 9% around a ...

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The graph gives information about the age of the population of Iceland between 1990 and 2020.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Iceland is a very beautiful country to live and we can see the population is perfectly distribute among all the age range. We can see young people age between 25 to 54 is the high for all four decade of years. When we analyses all forty years of data we can see birth ratio is slightly reduce and young population has been increase over the period. As well as we can say the county and people he ...

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The tables below show people's reasons for giving up smoking, and when they intend to give up.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The demonstrated charts mentioned five main reasons that people tend to give up smoking and the time of this happens. The effect of smoking on health in general is the first reason among others by 71 percent directly and 37 percent of the reasons indirectly are related to health for instance risk of getting illnesses and another major factor is financial problems by 31 percent. other reasons a ...