WRITING TASK I

I. Line Chart

(mine)

The chart illustrates the numbers of Underground Station passenger in London from 6 am to 10 pm. The
total number of commuters is varied from time to time over a day.

There are 100 passengers at 6.00, this number increase sharply to its highest point at 400 passengers,
then fall rapidly to approximately 190 passengers at 10.00. From 10.00 to 14.00, there is a slight rise to
300 commuters. After that, the number of commuters drops to its lowest point at 100 passengers at
16.00 which is the same as its starting point at 6.00. At 18.00 the number of passengers reaches the
second highest point at about 380 passengers, while after that it falls again to 120 passengers at 20.00
and rises slightly to 160 before it decreases to 150 at 22.00.

The given line graph shows data on the number of underground station passengers of London
city from 6:00 am till 10:00 pm. As is observed from the graph, the highest number of people
use the underground stations of London at 8:00 am and 6:00 pm.

(example)
At 6:00 am around 100 underground passengers can be found at the stations and this number
increases seamlessly until 8:00 am when the passengers' number reaches to 400. After 8:00
am the number declines steadily until 10:00 am when it reaches around 180. The number keeps
fluctuating until 4:00 pm and on an average 200 passengers can be observed during this period.
After 4:00 pm the passenger number increases and reaches at 380 at around 6:00 pm. After
6:00 pm, the passenger number decreases with some fluctuations until 10:00 pm.

In summary, the highest number of passengers of London underground stations can be found in
the stations during the office going and office leaving times in a day.

II. Bar Graph

Me

The bar graph shows the percentage of waste disposal in Toronto, Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, and Amman
by using four different treatment processes such as landfill, inceneration, recycling, and composting. The
number of total waste in the four cities that disposed is in the range of 0 to 80%.

Overall, the preferance of waste disposal is vary from one city to another. Landfill is the most popular
treatment method in Toronto and Amman, while in Madrid and Kuala Lumpur, incineration is more
common to use compare to other disposal method.

The highest percentage of total waste that recycled happen in Madrid at about 22%, slightly higher than
Kuala Lumpur with the percentage around 21%. The recycling method is the third most popular among
other disposal method, after landfill and incenaration. The lowest percentage of waste disposal among
the four cities are using composting method, with no more than 10% waste proccessed by composting
method.
Example

The bar chart depicts four types of waste disposal in four cities. Landfill was the most popular
method of waste disposal in Toronto and Amman. Toronto used landfill for disposing of about
three-quarters of its waste with the remaining quarter split between incineration, recycling and
composting.

Amman used landfill for disposing of almost half of its waste with most of the rest being
incinerated. Incineration was the most popular method of waste disposal in Madrid and Kuala
Lumpur.

Kuala Lumpur disposed of more than half its waste by incineration with less than one quarter
going for recycling and even less still going for landfill and composting. Recycling was the
second least popular method of waste disposal.

No cities disposed of more than 25% of its waste by recycling and in the case of Toronto, it was
less than 10%. Composting was the least common method of waste disposal. No cities
disposed of more than 10% of its waste by compositing and Amman hardly did any composting.

III. Diagram

The picture illustrates how people who live in Australian town collects rainwater for drinking water
usage. Before the rainwater can be consumed by the residents, it must goes through several treatment
process.
Initially, when the rainwater comes, the water falls from the rooftop through a pipe, flowing into the
drain and reach the water filter. In this place, rainwater is filtered from its contaminant before it
collected in the water storage. After that, the rainwater goes into water treatment unit, where it is
treated with chemicals. Rainwater that has been treated by those processes will be distributed to each
house through the pipeline system. Residents in Australian town consume the treated water through
the tap installed in each of their houses. Finally, people in the Australian town can enjoy the water for
daily consumption.

To sum up, for the rainwater has to be processed by being filtered and being treated with chemicals
before consumed as drinking water.

IV. Bar Chart & Pie Chart

The two charts above ilustrates the education level for people in Glasgow in 2010. The bar graph
compares the education level by the age range while the pie chart compares the education level by
gender without considering the age group.
Overall, people in the age range of 24-35 have the highest education level at 76% having university
degree, while the lowest education levels experienced by people over 75 years old with just 25%
university degree achieved. Based on the gender, men tend to has higher education levels, with 32% of
men had a university degree, while only 25% women had university degree.

There are 20% people in the age range of 16-24, 35-50, and 50-75 who had school of certificate in 2010.
This percentage is the highest among all of age ranges, while the age range 24-35 and age range over 75
only had 15% and 3% of people with school certificate respectively.The portion between men and
women who had a school certificate is the same.

The highest percentage of ‘no qualification’ education levels happened to people over 75 years old with
the percentage of 72%. The ‘no qualification’ education levels of women are reported to be higher than
men, with 3% difference.

V. Line Graph

The line graph depicts the proportion of people over 4-years old who watch tv and listen to radio in the
24 hours period, in the UK from October to December 1992.

Overall, the majority of people watched tv in the evening while most of people listened to the radio in
the morning. Over 24 hours period, there were more people watching tv than listening to the radio.

People who watches TV is fluctuating during the day. The number who watches TV rapidly increases in
the evening started at around 17.00. it reaches its highest pecentage that people watches TV at around
19.00 and gradually decreases after 21.00.
Regarding the TV, at 1 am there were around 6% people who watched tv and it’s gradually decereased
to its lowest point at 12.00 with 4% population, before it reached its peak at 9 pm with about 45%
people watching TV. After that time, there was a sharp fall in audiences to below 20% by midnight.

While more people watcehs TV in the evening, more people listen to the radio in the morning according
to the line graph. The number of people listen to radio start rising at 06.00 and reaches its peak point at
around 09.00. after 09.00, people who listen to radio goes down continuosly until midnight.

Similary, the percentage of radio listeners also began low at about 4% listeners. This number remained
steady until 6 am and rose suddenly to its peak of approximately 25% population. From that point, the
percentage of listeners fluctuated in a gradual downward trend to 5% at the end of the day.

VI

This line chart illustrates how many inquiries received by the tourist information office by letter/email,
telephone, and in person from January to June in the year 2011. This enquires numbers was ranged
from 200 to 2000.

Overall, there was a gradual increase in the number of inquires by phone as well as by directing to the
customers. On contrary, the letter/email inquiries show a downward trend from January to May and
stayed the same until June.

Regarding the inquiry in person, it started with around 400 inquiries at January and this number
considerably rose to reached a peak at about 1900 in June 2011. This trend is similar with the inquiry by
telephone, except its slightly dip from 900 to 800 at the second month and reach a pleateau at 1000
from May to April before it grew again to hit the highest point at 1600 at the last month. Meanwhile, the
inquiry by letter/email steadily dropped from around 750 to almost 400 in the first four months and
remain unchanged for the next month.

Writing task 2

It is said that only authorities and huge businesses can improve the environment, while individuals can
do nothing to make a difference. In my opinion, all people in the world could do something to make our
environment better, both as individuals as well as governments and large companies. For that reason, I
totally disagree with the statement above.

There is no doubt that our environmental quality is continuously degrading all the time due to human’s
activities, such as deforestation, unmanaged waste dumping, factories, the usage of vehicles, and so on.
It is true that governments with their regulations and actions could control these activities to minimize
its impact on the environment. In addition, big companies could also use their CSR to make some
projects that improve the environmental quality.

However, individuals could also contribute to make a better environment by taking simple actions with a
large impact if it is done together with other individuals. For instance, by reducing the usage of plastic
bags, a person could minimize the number of plastic bags that usually end up in the ocean. Imagine if
this action is done by many people around the world, it certainly would give a significant result and
eventually would lead to a cleaner ocean. Another simple action is to minimize the use of paper, so it
would reduce the number of trees being cut to produce paper. These actions clearly would have a bigger
result if the authorities and large businesses work together to lead these actions. Nevertheless, it
doesn’t mean that individuals can do nothing to contribute to the improvement of environment.

In conclusion, simple actions from individuals would clearly give impacts in the improvement of
environment if it is done together. Moreover, the intervention of governments and companies would
give a larger impact of these actions.

Writing task 2

It is thought by some people that the most important thing to think about when purchasing product or
service is its cost. In my opinion, the price of product or service is often shows its quality, thus I certainly
agree with this statement.
When it comes to purchasing a product such as handphone, lots of choices of phones make us have to
choose one of them with some considerations. Price, as I mentioned above to be the most important
thing to consider, often shows the quality of the cellphone. For instance, ‘samsung’ cell phones have
variety of price according to their specifications, as the phone with higher specification costs higher than
another. However, it doesn’t mean that cell phone with the highest price is the best for us. We also have
to consider our needs and our financial capability in purchasing the phone.

The other example is if we go to the doctor to receive the medical treatment, surely we want the best
service, and price is one of the factor that important to be thought. In my experience, going to a low
priced clinic is often gave me less service quality than go to the higher priced clinic. One of the factor
that maybe caused this to happen is that low priced clinic often has a lot of patients but lack of staff to
assist those patients. Therefore, I prefer to go to higher priced clinic with good services.

To sum up, if we are going to purchase something such as handphone or having a medical treatment
service, price is really important to consider to show us the quality that we need. However, we also have
to consider our financial capability of buying the product or service.
The table shows the number of UK residents traveled abroad that divided into four reasons for traveling
in the year of 1994 to 1998, while the bar chart illustrates their traveling destination within the same
period.

Overall, the main reason for traveling abroad is to have a holiday with Western Europe as the most
favorite destination to travel and North America is the least preferred destination during the period. In
addition, the number of people going abroad considerably increased over the time.

In 1994, the total number of residents visited abroad is 22,072, this number slightly decreased to 21,610
in 1995 and rose significantly to reach its peak at 28,828 in 1998 with business and visiting friends &
relatives were the second and third main reason to travel.

The bar graph gives almost the same trend as the table, with the lowest number of people traveled
abroad happened in 1995 and the highest happened in 1998. In 1998, there were about 24000 residents
traveled to Western Europe, 2000 residents visited North America, and around 2500 people went to
other areas.

Some people think that it is important to use leisure time for activities that
improve the mind, such as reading and doing word puzzles.
Other people feel that it is important to rest the mind during leisure time.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own
knowledge or experience.

p.1
-. It is believed by some people that using free time to do something that improve mind
such as reading and doing word puzzle is important, while some others think that
relaxing mind is more important to do in the leisure time.
- Personaly speaking, I prefer to use my free time with activities that relax my mind
rather than doing something that maybe useful for learning yet stressing me out.
p.2 What do i do in leisure time and the benefit
p.3 benefit improving mind activities
p.4 In conclusion,
Answer:
In general, leisure time is something that people wait for after spending full weeks of
working. The way of spending the leisure time depends on each person itself. It is
believed by some people that using free time by doing something that improves mind is
important, while some others think that relaxing mind is more important to do in the
leisure time.
Personally speaking, I prefer to spend my free time with activities that relax my mind
rather than doing something that maybe useful for learning yet stressing me out. There
are many ways that can be used to relaxing my mind such as watching movies,
spending a day out with family and friends, or even spending a day at a spa resort. By
spending this kind of free time, I would feel recharged on Monday when I have to go
back to work.
On the other hand, using leisure time to do activities that improving mind would also
beneficial for some people. By doing these sort of activities for instance reading or doing
word puzzles, we could get new knowledge that might be useful in the future.
Furthermore, working on word puzzles could increase our brain IQ so that it would help
us to have a faster understanding in certain cases. Nevertheless, it also could stress
your brain out when you spend too much time on these certain activities.
In conclusion, having a leisure time with some improving mind activities would enhance
our knowledge and mind. However, it is best not to spend too much time on this kind of
activities as I personally think that relaxing mind is much more important than improving
mind on this occasion.

The provided table gives data of sales during lunch and dinner time at a small
restaurant in a business district on the second week of October. Overall, it can be seen
that both dinner sales and lunch sales are fluctuative throughout the week, with dinner
sales are always higher than lunch sales.
On Monday,the transaction from the lunch time resulting 2400 USD. This amount
gradually increase and reach its peak on Wednesday with the sales of 2595 USD. The
next day, the lunch sales decreases considerably until Sunday with the sales of 1550
USD.
On the other hand, the restaurant gets 3623 USD in the Monday dinner time. This
amount of sales keeps fluctuated with the highest sales of 4350 USD on Friday and the
lowest sales happen on Saturday with 2900 USD sales.
To sum up, the restaurant always get higher sales in dinner time rather than in the lunch
time.
There is growing evidence that man-made activities are making global
temperatures higher.
What might be the man-made causes of temperatures rising? How should we deal
with this problem?

P1. Nowadays, our world seems to be hotter than before, as the increasing number of
evidences shows that human activities are the one that cause this problem. There might
be several activities that cause the temperature rising such as illegal logging and the
growing number of factories and also vechicle usage. Therefore, it needs a concrete
solution to slove this issue.
P2. Cutting down the trees, depending on vehicles, increasing number of factories,
causing air pollution, co2,
P3. Solution -> reforestation, improve public transportation and encourage using bike
P4. Conclusion
Answer:
Nowadays, our world seems to be hotter than before, as the increasing number of
evidence shows that human activities are the one that causes temperature rising. There
might be several activities that cause this problem, such as illegal logging and vehicle
usage.
Firstly, as the needs of human products continuously increasing over time, the demand
of the raw material such as woods rises as well. As a result, the number of trees being
cut to fulfill the demand also increase over time, not to mention some greedy company
that doing illegal logging to escalate their income. The degradation of forest area leads
to a condition where our earth losses its capability to absorb the CO2. Therefore, the
CO2 is saturated on the atmosphere which caused the rise of temperature.
Furthermore, the modern society habit where people relying too much on the private
transportation such as car and motorcycle create an upward trend of motor-vehicles
usage throughout the years. This situation clearly also plays a big role in the emition of
CO2 into the atmosphere.
In this case, it is essential to find a great solution to minimize the impact of man-made
activities to the environment. The reforestration is one of the solutions to rise the forest
area in our world. In addition, improvement of public transportation and encouraging
people to use bicycle could becomes good solutions too minimize the car and bike
usage. Therefore, these actions might be reduce the emition of CO2 into the
atmosphere.
In conclusion, the temperature rising could be prevent and reduce by doing some
actions such as deforestation, improving the public transportation, or encouraging
people to use bicycle to transport.

Task 1
The bar graphs given illustrate the percentage of people in Britain purchasing music
albums which are pop, rock, and classic. Each of these graphs also categorized
according to gender and age.