BAND 6.5 IELTS ESSAY SAMPLE: COMPARING 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 charts illustrate the news accessing routes in Canada and Australia and compare these two countries.

In an overview, we can see that other ways have the least share in both Canada and Australia. It is also can be seen that Online news websites or social media and TV are both popular in these two countries.

In Canada, TV is the main route to access news and leads the chart with 40 percent. In the second place, we have Online ways with 36 percent of the share followed by Printed papers like Newspapers or Magazines with 14 percent. In the end, there is Radio and other ways with 7 and 3 percent of the whole share respectively.

Looking into Australia chart, Online News is the leader with 52 percent. 37 percent of the share is for TV followed by Printed News with 7 percent. In the last two places, we have Online routes and not specified ways with equal 2 percent.