BAND 6.5 IELTS ESSAY SAMPLE: ANALYSIS OF CANADIAN FAVOURITE TAKEAWAYS AND INDIAN RESTAURANTS TREND (1960-2015)

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The charts below show the favorite takeaways of people in Canada and the number of Indian restaurants in Canada between 1960 and 2015.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Essay Sample

The pie chart illustrates Canadian's favorite takeout foods and the bar chart depicts the number of Indian restaurants active in Canada's food industry in the span of 55 years starting from 1960.
At first glance, the popularity of Chinese food is noticeable which accounts for 34% of the takeouts. Indian food stands the second place with 26% and with a 16% drop, Italian food is the third most favorite food in Canada. Persian, Thai, Mexican, Japanese and Greek seem to be the less popular dishes since the numbers associated with them are 9%, 3%, 1%, 1% and 1%. 4% of the population have reportedly ordered from other takeouts and surprisingly, 11% of Canadians never consume takeaway dishes.
The bar chart attributed to the number of Indian restaurants demonstrates a significant escalation from 1960 up untill 2015. At first in 1960, there are less than 500 active Indian restaurants in canada. The number keeps growing until 2009 to 9000. From 2009 to 2015 the bars seem to show negligible changes.