DESCRIBING GRAPHS – SUMMARY

TASK ACHIEVEMENT - write over 150 words

- satisfy all the requirements of the task
- introduce the task (rephrase the question)
- give a summary of the key features
- highlight key features
COHERENCE & COHESION - sequence information and ideals logically
- use paragraphing appropriately
- make sure there is a clear progression throughout
- use a range of cohesive devices appropriately
- avoid unnecessary repetition of information
LEXICAL RESOURCE - rephrase vocabulary to show your range of vocabulary
- use adverbs and adjectives to show precision
- use less common lexical items
- awareness of style and collocation
- avoid errors with word formation
- avoid errors with spelling
- avoid errors with word choices
GRAMMATICAL RANGE & - use a mix of simple and complex sentence forms
ACCURACY - produce error-free sentences
- avoid errors with grammar and punctuation

Read the following paragraphs/ sentences and identify the problems.

1. In general, it is clearly observed that money is equally distributed on items in Canada but is not clearly
allocated in Poland. Meanwhile, the graph chart shows a similarity between the average age of the Polish and
the global, but the Canadian have a striking difference.
As can be seen from the pie chart, both countries have the same amount of income in buying food and affording
housing. On one hand, Canadian young people spend mostly on leisure activities. ON the other hand, the
Polish use a large amount of their income, approximately 45%, in studying. However, the most striking
difference between the two countries is the distribution of income. Canadian’s people use their money evenly,
with leisure activities tops the chart with 20% and clothing closely follows second with 19%. The remaining
items fluctuate from 14% to 16%. In contrast, the Polish spend alarge amount of their income on studying
which makes up 43%, following by transportation, being nearly twice less thatn the top- ranked. The other
items are left by large margin.

2. Firstly, an upward trend is recorded in both fitness and employability, with the former registering
200 students in 1985, and gradually climbing to nearly 600 in 1995. From 1995 to 2015, this category reached
a plateau at approximately 600. Employability witnessed a rapid growth, with only 200 in 1985, 420 in 1995
and 600 in 2015, nearly trifling the starting year. Therefore, it is likely to increase to 800 after ten more years.
In contrast, languages reported a gradual plummet, from 400 in 1985 to only 300 in 215. For the last area, it
reached its trough at merely 200 in 1995 comparing to over 220 in 1985, and started to rise to 210 in 2015.

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3. Closer investigation demonstrates that fitness and employability had an upward trend. Having around less
than 300 students in 1985, fitness and employability rose significantly to about 550 students and 450 students
respectively in 1995. Apropos fitness, this subject experienced a period of stability and is anticipated to
slightly rise towards 2025. Employability continued to go up and is predicted to make a surge and surpass
fitness over the course of 2015 to 2025.
4. Three years later, the two managed to reach a peak, however, employability’s was considerably lower than
that of fitness.
5. From 2005 onward, fitness students’ figure was virtually invariable until facing a potential negligible rise
in 2025
6. On the contrary, employability’s student count has boomed since 2005, leaving fitness’s by a margin.

7. As for Fitness and Employability, they both started the period out at the same level of around 250 with
each other as well as Arts and design; however, both of them quickly advanced and surpassed Languages in
student numbers with Fitness taking the slight lead. In mid-1995, the growth of the two subjects started to
differ as Employability’s number rose steadily while Fitness’s number more or less stayed the same at 590
students for the rest of the surveyed time frame. This culminates with Employability overcoming Fitness and
becoming the subject with the most number of students attending at the end of 2015 with more than 600
students. Both subjects are expected to grow in number and Employability predicted to continue its lead.
8. Nonetheless, while the fitness expertise stayed the same, employability saw another surge and is expected
to reach 800 students in 2025.
9. From 1985 to 1995, both fitness and employability courses soared from about 200 students to more than
400 and 600 respectively
10. On the other hand, from the beginning to 1995, languages and art and design courses witnessed slight
decreasement at different paces. At its starting point, languages was the most favorited course.

11. In contrast, this period witnessed an opposed trend in both numbers of students participating in fitness and
employability courses, which reached their peak in 1995
Task 1: The bar chart shows the number of heat-related illnesses suffered by high school students per 100,000
sports events in central US states. The line graph shows the average temperatures for one year in a central US
state.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant.
You should write at least 150 words.

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Task 2: The graphs below show the proportions of different types of distance learning which are being planned
in countries with varying economic levels in response to school closures caused by Covid 19.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant.

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You should write at least 150 words.

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