IELTS Writing
IELTS Writing
IELTS Writing
Model answer
The bar chart gives information about the gender of teachers in six types of educational
institutions in the UK in 2010. It shows what percentage of teachers was male and what
percentage was female.
Women dominated the teaching profession in primary education, but less so at lower and upper
secondary education. It was particularly true of nursery school, where the share of female
teachers was above 95%. Similarly one-sided was the situation in primary school, where over
90% of teachers were also female.
At secondary and upper secondary level this pattern was less pronounced, where there were
nearly equal proportions of male and female teachers. On the other hand, male teachers
outnumbered female teachers in high-level education, where the proportion of men was twice
that for women.
Overall, the higher the level of education, the more male teachers dominated, and the reverse
occurred with respect to female teachers.
(150 words)
IELTS Writing Task 1 #95
TestTip
If there is more than one diagram, study any heading, key or source for each. Decide what the
vertical and horizontal axes measure, and what the bars show. Look for similarities, differences,
changes and trends.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The graphs below provide information on global population figures and figures for urban
populations in different world regions.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
Model answer
The first graph shows the trend in world population growth between 1800 and 2100, while the
second graph gives predicted urban population figures for the next 25 years.
The world population has experienced continuous growth since 1800. Between 1800 and 1950,
the population grew slowly from just under 1 billion to 2.5 billion people. After that, the growth
rate increased and currently the figure is around 6.5 billion. Projections show a continued
increase in population in the near future, but a steady decline in the population growth rate. The
global population is expected to peak at 8.2 billion by 2050, and then decline to around 6.2
billion by 2100.
The predictions also show that almost all urban population growth in the next 25 years will occur
in cities of developing countries. In developed regions, on the other hand, the urban population is
expected to remain unchanged at about 1.3 billion people over the next two decades.
The graphs show that the global population increase will not occur evenly throughout the world,
but will be greater in some areas than others.
(180 words)
IELTS Writing Task 1 #96
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The table below presents the number of children ever born to women aged 40-44 years in
Australia for each year the information was collected since 1981.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
TestTip
You should signpost general statements, i.e. introduce them with expressions such as:
The table/pie chart/graph/etc. shows...
The most significant change...
Another noticeable trend...
Overall...
You must also support general statements with detailed information from the table/graph/etc.
Model answer
The table shows the number of children born to women aged 4044 years in Australia in 1981,
1986, 1996 and 2001.
In 1981, women aged 40-44 years were only marginally more likely to have had two children
than three children (29% vs 27.4%) or four or more children (27.6%). Similarly, by 1986,
women of this age were considerably more likely to have given birth to two children than three
children (35.6% vs 27%) or four or more children (18.9%).
In 1996 and 2006, the proportions of women aged 40-44 years who had given birth to two
children were almost identical, though the proportions who had given birth to three children or to
four or more children had decreased. In these more recent periods, women were more likely to
have had two children than three or more children - a trend that was most marked in the most
recent period (38.2% vs 24.6% in 1996; 38.3% vs 21.5% in 2006).
While two-child families now predominate, the number of women who had given birth to only
one child increased progressively from 7.6% in 1981 to 13.2% in 2006.
In 1981, similar proportions of women aged in their early forties were childless or had given
birth to only one child (8.5% and 7.6% respectively). By 2006, 15.9% of women were childless
and 13.2% had given birth to only one child.
Overall, by age 40-44 years, the proportion of women who have had three or more children has
fallen considerably since the 1980s, while the proportions who have had no children, or only one
or two children has increased.
(266 words)