BAR CHART

1. Bar chart with categories (no timeline)

2. Bar chart with timeline (similar to line graphs) – Use language of changes
3. Two bar charts in one question => You have to connect them together

 Steps to execute bar chart exercises

- Analyze the chart and plan how to group the information
- Write an essay using the recommended essay structure
Introduction + Overview
2 body paragraphs

 Bar chart with categories

The bar chart below shows the expenditure that people in two different countries spent
on consumer goods in 2010.

 Most noticeable features

 Overview
  Body 1

 Body 2

 Bar chart with timeline – luôn trích số liệu năm đầu + cuối, thường ưu tiên trend
=> so sánh
The bar chart shows the divorce rates in two European countries from 2011 to 2015.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.

bar chart information

The   provides   about the percentages of divorces in Finland and Sweden
between 2011 and 2015.

Overall upward
 , Sweden experienced a downward trend, while Finland showed an   trend
throughout the period. Both countries’ divorce rates had some fluctuations. Although Finland
exceeded/outraced
initially had a lower rate, it   Sweden at the end of the period.
Sweden’s divorce rate was about 45% in 2011, being higher than Finland’s rate by
nearly
approximately 8%. Then, it rose to   fifty percent in 2012. However, the figure showed a
gradual decrease to about 47% in 2013, and continued to decline steadily to the end of the
low-point
period, reaching around 45% in 2014 and hitting a   of about 37% in 2015.

lower
Percentage of divorces in Finland was   than 40% in 2011, and it decreased in 2012,
opposed
when about one third of marriages in Finland ended with a divorce (as   to almost a half
in Sweden). However, the figure experienced a steady growth during the next two years. It rose
to approximately 39% in 2013, then increased by around 3% in 2014, and remained steady for
the next year, outracing the rate of Sweden.

SOURCE: IELTS-Up

The bar chart below shows the percentage growth in average property prices in three
different countries between 2007 and 2010.

 Overview:

- China: increase, Algeria: decrease, Argentina: fluctuate

 Body 1
- Algeria + China => nêu sự đối lập
  Body 2
- Argentina: fluctuate (nêu rõ 2008 cao nhất và 2009, 2010 thấp nhất)

 Two bar charts

Look at each of the chart => organize information based on the charts
Describe key information from each chart
Summarize the general trends => Find a correlation between the charts (Link
them!)

NOTE!: For this kind of question, you can write one introduction sentence for both bar charts but
you should write 2 sentences for the overview. Each sentence should describe the most striking
feature from each chart.

The charts give information about two genres of TV programmes watched by men and
women and four different age groups in Australia.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.

The charts give information about the genres of TV programmes that Australian men and
women and different age groups watch. It is clear from the charts that women tend to watch
more television than men overall, although they watch slightly fewer game shows. The
people who watch the most  television are in the 45+ age group.

Nearly 70% of women watch reality shows, which is almost twice as many as the
percentage of men who choose this genre of programme. => Reality shows của 2 giới

Nevertheless, most age groups watch more reality shows than game shows revealing that
game shows are generally more popular than reality shows. The percentage of people
watching reality shows increases steadily from ages 16 to 45 with the….  percentage of
viewers, at just over 50% of the age group 16-24 and the….  percentage, at 68% of the
over-45s.

However, the pattern is different for game shows. The number of programmes watched by
25- to 44-year-olds is……  lower than the number watched by 16- to 24-year-olds and those
over 45. Just over 50% of 16- to 24-year-olds watch game shows, but this share is
not…….  high as the share of people aged 45 and over watching game shows, at nearly
70%. Only 41% of 35- to 44-year-olds watch game shows, and the share of 24- to 34-year-
olds is……. lower at 38%.

Overview
- Population: consistent increase over the period
- Death rate always lower than birth rate + highest in 1800
 Body 1
- Phân tích cụ thể về population

Body 2
- Phân tích cụ thể về birth & death rate
- Lưu ý không phải fluctuation => tăng mạnh và cao nhất trong năm 1800
- Đưa ra số liệu cụ thể từng năm cho cả 2 rate