Exclusive For 9.0 Niner Students Only

TASK 1 SAMPLES BY DR.
MURRAY HEASLEY (FORMER EXAMINER)

(EXCLUSIVE FOR 9.0 NINER STUDENTS ONLY)
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The key to a Task One is simple.
Turn data into words that describe what is in front of you.
Grade school really. The data might be a range of graphs from tables to processes but it is just data. Not
technical, heavy data. Ordinary data that any literate person might be expected to understand.
The rules are very simple but you must follow these rules.
Rule 1. Give no opinions. This is simply fact comparison and description free of emotive words or
connectives that must only be used in a Task 2. (words like “unfortunately”, “surprisingly” etcetera will
kill your hopes in Task 1.
Rule 2. Provide an overview. An overview is not an introduction. The overview is the key feature of the
data. The core information.
Rule 3. Do not omit any key data in your description, You do, you fail. Also do not overwrite the data.
This is a 20 minute task. Short and to the point.
Rule 4. Do not just list figures or numbers as a sequence. You compare them using standard words of
comparison (half as much, twice as much, approximately, etcetera.) Look at the samples and all will be
explained.
Rule 5. Short, economical paragraphs. Examiners who have to count your words because the answer
looks too short are not likely to pass you.
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TASK 1 SAMPLES BY DR. MURRAY HEASLEY (FORMER EXAMINER)
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A. Process
1. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The illustrations below show how coffee is sometimes produced.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features.
Write at least 150 words.
The information describes the production of coffee utilizing the dry method.
Overall, the dry method of production involves either one or two drying processes. The simpler process is
sun drying for four weeks and the more involved process is to further roast and pack the finished
product.
Both points of sale involve 9 preliminary stages. Initially the beans need to be hand sorted, cleaned by
passing through a sieve and then sun dried for a month. Subsequently the beans must be raked and
turned before silo storage.
The sixth stage involves truck transfer to a mill where the beans undergo a further three stages. The
sequence is hulling, grading and finally, bagging. The product can now be sold. Alternatively, this output
might be further roasted and packed for sale as a roasted bean product.
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El Niño is the name of a warm ocean current that affects weather patterns on both sides of the Pacific
Ocean. The diagrams compare normal conditions in the Pacific with El Niño conditions.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.
The diagram describes the effects of El Nino on weather conditions on either side of the Pacific Ocean.
Overall, El Nino essentially reverses the weather patterns in the West and East Pacific. This pattern has
major influence on rainfall patterns over Australia in the west and Peru in the east.
In normal conditions, the shallower warm water pushes westwards while associated weak West Pacific
winds allow storm clouds to drop rain over Australia. At the same time, the deeper cool, nutrient rich
water current pushes upwards in the East, with strong trade winds bringing dry, sunny weather to Peru.
When El Nino conditions apply, there is a reversal of weather patterns. Warm water currents push east
rather than west, the weak winds of the West are replaced by strong winds with consequent sunny, dry
conditions over Australia. The deeper cool water is left undisturbed and so the ocean in the east becomes
nutrient poor. The weak trade winds in this sector are associated with more rainfall as the cloud cover
pushes east. Consequently, Peru experiences wet conditions.
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The diagram below shows career paths in the travel industry.
The flow chart describes the various career paths one may follow within the travel sector.
Overall, the fastest route to the Chief Executive’s job is to skip the Senior Manager position and go by the
Small Agency manager and marketing Manager route. In any case, everyone starts as an Assistant or a
Clerk.
Initially, one may start as a Travel Sales Assistant or a Clerk, either position of which leads to the role of
Travel Consultant for Domestic Operations with a subsequent promotion to International Operations.
Three alternative routes are then possible. One may go on to the job of Senior Consultant of
International or Australian Operations, where further promotion ceases. Alternatively, one may pursue a
career path as a Travel Sales Supervisor in the Commercial Private Sector or in Tourism within the Public
Sector or Specialized Domestic services.
The former route may result in promotion to Small Agency Manager directly to Chief Executive or Branch
Manger to Senior Manger and then to Chief Executive. The latter route may lead to the position of Travel
Admin Manager to Senior Manager as in the other route or its equivalent position of Marketing Manager
leading directly to Chief Executive without the intermediate step.
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The diagrams show a structure that is used to generate electricity from wave power. Write a report for a
university lecturer describing the information.
You should write at least 150 words.
The illustration describes how electricity is generated using wave power.
Overall, wave and the consequent wind energy may be converted into electricity by focusing this energy
on a turbine encased in a column perpendicular to the direction of the wave and placed against a cliff or
sea wall to allow this energy conversion to occur.
An above- water column with an enclosed turbine and lower chamber open to the sea is built against a
cliff or a sea wall. Incoming waves drive air into the lower chamber which, in turn, drives the turbine,
thereby producing electricity.
The subsequent out-going wave reverses the process as this air is sucked out of the chamber, the
pressure continuing to drive the turbine in the same direction with the same results. In this way, an
uninterrupted supply of usable energy produces electricity.
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The diagram below shows the production of steam using a gas cooled nuclear reactor.
The diagram describes how cool gas passes through a nuclear reactor to produce hot gas, the steam of
which is used to drive a turbo-alternator.
Overall, uranium heats gas within a nuclear reactor and the consequent steam is utilized to produce
energy for consumption.
Gas is put through a heat exchanger and cooled by passing over a water coil. The resultant cool gas is
pushed through a cool gas duct by a gas blower and passes into the base of a nuclear reactor encased in
a concrete shield.
The gas is heated by passage through a pressure vessel that contains uranium fuel elements with
graphite moderators. Above are both boron control rods and charge tubes for the loading of the fuel
elements required.
The consequent hot gas is siphoned off in turn through a hot gas duct back to the heat exchanger where
the water it heats is converted to the steam. This steam is needed to be drawn off to drive the turbo –
alternator.
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The diagram shows the processes a product undergoes over its life cycle.
STEP 2
Consumption
of materials &
STEP 1 energy sources STEP 3
Planning & Production

Design
STEP 7
Feedback
Recycling
STEP 6 STEP 4
Use by Packing &

customers distribution
Disposal STEP 5
Sales
The flowchart describes the planning and design steps involved in the whole process of the production of
goods.
Overall, consumption of materials and energy sources involves a series of steps with the expectation that
the cycle involved might result in efficiency and desired outcomes.
The initial step is the planning and design of the process. Subsequently, the manner of how materials and
energy are consumed (trucking of materials to factory for processing for example) is considered, followed
by actual production. Packing and distribution must then be considered, prior to the sales and
consequent use by consumers.
Customers may then dispose of their former products or recycle these materials so that the cycle is
repeated. The whole process acts as a feedback mechanism where the various stages and how they
function, inform changes in the overall planning and design.
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The diagram below shows the nitrogen cycle.
The flowchart describes the nitrogen cycle in both the air and in the soil.
Overall, the process is relatively complicated, involving at least 6 base processes as nitrogen in air is
converted to nitrogen in air and vice versa.
Nitrogen in the air may be absorbed by free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria and remain in the air.
Alternatively, the same bacteria may absorb air nitrogen in the nodules of leguminous plants. These
plants in turn might be consumed by animals. This nitrogen might be released in the excreta of these
animals or, after either their death, or the death of the plant, into the soil.
Dentrifying bacteria may either introduce more nitrogen into this soil or release it back into the air.
Lightning also extracts nitrogen from air-born nitrogen and sends it into the soil. This soil-bound nitrogen
may also pass into non-leguminous green plants, which may themselves be eaten by animals,
consequently adding to the nitrogen mix returned to the soil and the process as a whole.
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The diagram below shows the changes in the mobile phone.
The illustration describes the change in the appearance of mobile phones from an earlier version to the
contemporary form.
Overall, the contemporary phone has greater connectivity to a wider range of functions and is more
portable and lightweight.
The similarities in the phones are a display face, ear phone, function select option and keyboard. The
differences, though, are more numerous than these similarities. The early phone had a black and white
display compared to the full color of the later version. It was also more than twice the weight at
150grams and both longer (130mm verses 90 mm) and wider(50mm verses 40mm).
The contemporary mobile phone also has additional functions the earlier version did not, including a
camera with video capability and email and internet capability together with a multi-player game facility
and a flip up face rather than the solid state face of the older version.
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The diagram shows the process of digestion.
The illustration describes the digestive system.
Overall, once food enters the stomach, gastric acid is needed for digestion and that chemical action in the
small intestine and bacterial action in the large intestine are required for complete digestion prior to
excretion of the waste material caused by this digestion cycle.
Initially, the teeth, in conjunction with enzymes in the mouth breakdown food followed by the muscle of
the esophagus moving this product down the tube to the stomach where gastric acid aids in digestion.
Consequently, the digested food passes to the small intestine where it mixes with a chemical produced
in the liver called bile.
Subsequently, the large intestine further aids in digestion by bacterial action and water is removed before
the remaining waste products are eliminated by excretion.
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The diagram below shows how raw urban refuse can be recycled.
The flowchart describes the sorting of eleven types of refuse.
Overall, refuse sorting involves 7 distinct steps starting at the unloading of the material from a truck to
the final collection of the last four refuse types.
The initial step is the unloading of this unsorted refuse from the back of a tip truck onto the belt. The
first actual processing takes place in the Shredder, followed by all refuse passing through a Primary Air
Classifier that extracts shredded paper and plastic, sending this to the first of the four collectors.
Subsequently, a Magnetic Separator extracts all steel cans and iron to the second collector.
The remaining materials pass through a Trommel Screen where glass, food and non-ferrous metals are
sorted for the third collector, leaving just aluminium, wood, rubber and plastic refuse to exit through the
final process of the Secondary Air Classifier and be stored in the final collector.
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The diagram below shows how glasses are made.
The diagram describes glass making from its component sand, soda ash, limestone and recycled glass to
final packaging as finished bottlers.
Overall, glass making leading to the production of bottles is a six step process involving four ingredients
and then a double heating, air and water.
The four ingredients are sent down a chute into a furnace lined with fireclay bricks and heated to 1500C.
The molten glass so produced is allowed to then flow along a lateral channel and to siphon off as blobs of
glass onto the tops of inverted capped moulds that will form the final bottle shape.
Unspecified heat is then applied to these moulds as air pushes the material up into the mould. These
completed moulds are then cooled in a water chamber, still in their inverted state but now with their
intended shape. The final products are then turned right- side up and put onto a conveyer belt for
packaging.
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The diagram below shows the steps in the hiring process at a large corporation.
The flowchart describes the recruitment process for Acme Corporation.
Overall, failure to pass successfully through any of the recruitment process stages will result in no
employment for the applicant while those that do, will gain a permanent position.
The person wishing to be hired must start the process by submitting an application. If subsequently
invited to the initial qualifying interview, able to meet the basic qualifications and to pass an aptitude
test, that person will be employed on a six-moth probation period. Others may be rejected at the basic
qualification or aptitude test stages.
A subsequent six month evaluation will lead, either to the recommendation of an offer of permanent
employment or a recommendation not to employ the probationer.
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The diagram shows how photographs can be produced using digital photographic equipment.
Writing
The flowchart describes how photographs are produced utilizing digital equipment.
Overall, digital photography allows the production of purely digital photographs storable in digital form or
the production of hard copies of these images in the form of monochrome or coloured photos.
The process commences with photographs captured and recorded on a digital camera that has a smart
card. One is then required to download these images to a computer. Once this is done, one may edit, cut
or enhance these images and appropriately format these photographs.
Subsequently, the completed images may be sent by email to a recipient and/or stored on a CD. Should
the editor so wish, these images may be sent to a printer to produce either black and white or coloured
photos on photo paper rather than plain paper.
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The diagram shows the process of using water to produce electricity.
The diagram describes the production of hydro-electric power.
One may conclude that hydro-electric power is electricity generated by the controlled use of evaporated
seawater transmitted by both overhead and underground cables after voltage transformation.
Initially, the sun evaporates water from the sea and the consequent clouds drop rain collected in a
dammed reservoir. Opening a valve releases the water from the dam which is used to drive a turbine that
may recycle this water to be pumped back into the reservoir or to generate electricity.
The electricity thus generated is transmitted by high voltage cable carried on dedicated towers to a
transformer station which subsequently passes the power, via underground cable, to homes, factories,
hospitals and schools.
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B. LINE GRAPH
15. You should write at least 150 words.

The graph below shows the consumption of fish and some different kinds of meat in a European country
between 1979 and 2004.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where
relevant.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The line graph describes meat and fish consumption in a particular country in Europe over the 25 year
period from 1979 to 2004.
Overall, chicken overtook beef as the meat most eaten, that lamb, in comparison fell to a third of its
1979 levels and fish remained by far, the least consumed food.
In 1979, beef was the most popular form of meat at over 200grams eaten per person per week. Over the
next quarter of a century, although it rose in the mid 80s, generally there was a downward trend in its
consumption, dropping more significantly than other meat options to just above 100 grams in 2004.
Lamb also experienced a general, if irregular, drop in consumption from 150 grams to about a third of
that level by 2004. Fish was the least consumed of products, starting at slightly more than a third of beef
and chicken’s 150 grams and remaining relatively stable throughout, finishing below 50 grams.
Chicken, although starting at the same level as lamb, equaled beef consumption in 1989 and ended up
as the most consumed product at 250 grams.
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The graph below shows radio and television audiences throughout the day in 1992.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the in formation shown below.
Radio and television audiences in the UK, October-December 1992
The graph describes UK audience behavior for both radio and television over the last three months in
1992. The figures apply to that group over 4 years of age and above over a 24 hour period starting at
6am.
Overall, the radio audience is greatest in the morning and TV at night. The TV audience is higher than
that for radio with both having the same audience numbers at noon and just before 2 am.
For radio audience numbers, a less than 10% figure at 6am peaks at around 35% just before 8am with a
steady if undulating decline to under 20% by 6pm and to the lowest level after 4am. A slight increase is
evident between 4pm and 5pm.
Television shows a more complex pattern. It starts around 5% early morning, a doubling of numbers
from 6am to 10am, a trough before noon, peaking at approximately 25% around 2pm before another
decline preceding a sharp increase to a second, higher peak at well over 50% around 6pm. This is
followed by a long decline to roughly 20% by midnight and further subsequent decline.
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The graph shows the gold sales in Dubai for the year 2002.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information in the graph below.
Dubai Gold Sales, 2002

Millions of Dirhams
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
The line graph describes Dubai gold sales over a twelve month period in 2002.
Overall, Dubai Gold Sales started and finished at approximately the same level by year’s end, never
falling below 100 million nor exceeding 350 million in that time.
The first three months show an increase in sales from 200 million Dirhams in January, peaking at 350
million in March, a yearly high. Subsequently there is steady drop in sales over the next 4 months to July
with a low of just above 100 million. This is followed by a jump in August to almost double the July rate
before falling again in September to an equivalent yearly low.
Sales of gold then pick up, more markedly in October than in the more gradual increase in the last two
months of the year, yet even the October figure is less significant than that of August.
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The graph below shows Japanese marriages.
The graph describes Japanese Love and Arranged marriages over a half century from 1950 to 2000.
Overall, by the end of the 50-year period, four times as many Japanese marriages were love matches
and not arranged.
In 1950 over 65% of all marriages were Arranged marriages. In the late-60s to the late 70s, with a small
increase in the mid-60s, these numbers fell to slightly over 30% and over the next 20 years had dropped
to under 20%. This represent more than a three-fold drop in such marriages.
Love marriages showed the opposite trend. Starting at a little over 20% and with a noticeable dip in the
late 50s, the trend was uniformly upwards. Love marriages equaled Arranged marriages in the early 70s,
both in the high 40 percents before the former rose markedly to reach around 80% of all marriages by
2000.
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The line graph describes data on the number of people employed in Australian mining industries from
1900 to 1990.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information.
The line graph describes the number of people working in the Australian mining industry over a ninety
year period in the 20th Century.
Overall, the Australian mining industry saw a marked decline in its employees over the period. With the
exception of an upturn in the 40s, the general trend has been downwards with a roughly four fold drop
in mining workers.
Over 60,000 people were mining industry workers in 1900. There was a subsequent continual drop over
the next forty years to approximately half that number with the steepest decline being the first decade
of the century.
1940 to 1950 saw a resurgence in numbers to just below 50,000. The next 40 years displayed a relatively
uniform decline, with some variation, to a final low around the 15,000 mark.
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The graphs below provide information on global population figures and figures for urban populations in
different world regions.
relevant.
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The graphs describe the growth of world population over two centuries from 1800 and projected figures
from the 21st to 22nd Centuries and actual and estimated global urban population from 2005 until 2030.
Overall, the urban population of developing regions is predicted to be four times that of the entire world
population in 1800 while that of developed regions remains constant.
Starting at 1 billion in 1800, world population increased steadily to 1950 with a noticeable steady
increase to an anticipated 9 billion by 2050 before falling by 2 billion in 2100.
Urban population figures are predicted to repeat the unchanging levels of 2005 and 2010 in developed
regions until 2030. A steady increase is noticeable in developing regions, beginning with over 2 billion in
2005, twice that of developed regions, with an expected peak in the developing world of 4 billion by
2030.
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The chart below shows the projected number of mobile phones sold, discarded and recycled in Atlanta.
Projected number of mobile phones sold, discarded and recycled in Atlanta
700
No. of phones (millions)
600
500 Mobile phones sold
400
Mobile phones
300 discarded
Mobile phones
200 recycled
100
0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
The graph describes the assumed number of cell phones either sold, discarded or recycled over a 4 year
period.
Overall, people were 10 times more likely to discard phones than recycle them by 2005 and even more
likely to buy a phone than recycle one, although recycling appears to be an increasing trend.
Sold phones started at 200 million in 2001 with approximately 100 million added to that number every
year to peak at three times the 2001 figure by 2005. Discarded phones followed a trajectory that was
roughly half that of sold phones with the exception of the year 2002 to 2003 which witnessed a sharper
rise in discarded phones.
Recycled phones started at zero and displayed a slow rise over the period to reach over 50 million by the
end of the period.
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The table and figure below show tourist arrivals and departures in Cyprus between 1976 and 1989, and
composition by length of stay.
Describe the trends in tourist numbers and length of stay over the period.
Table 4 Composition of tourist departures by length of

stay (%)
Time band 1977 1983 1988
<1 month 81.3 88.4 93.9
1 – 2 months 13.1 8.1 4.1
>2 months 5.1 2.7 1.0
Not stated 0.5 0.8 1.0
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The information describes the arrival and departure behavior of tourists to Cyprus over an eleven year
period in their length of stay (1977 to 1988) and over a thirteen year period in the arrivals line graph
(1976 to 1989).
Overall, the great majority of visitors stayed for less than a month, a trend that increased over time and
that tourist numbers accelerated markedly with virtually a seven fold increase over the period
described.
Stays of less than a month grew by almost 13% from 1977 to 1988, peaking at nearly 94% of all visitors.
Those staying between 1 and 2 months declined to around 30% of the 1977 high of 13.1% by 1988. Stays
of over 2 months also declined fivefold to 1% from a 5.1% figure in 1977 while unstated figures doubled
over the period, also reaching 1% by 1988.
From a starting figure of under 2000 on 1976, a steep rise of tourist arrivals continued over the whole
period, accelerating from a midterm figure of approximately 6000 in 1984 to reach 14,000 in 1989.
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The line graph shows the size of the US military as a percentage of the population from 1793 to the
present. Write a short description of the chart for a university lecturer.
The line graph describes participation rates of the US population in the Armed Forces over two hundred
years.
Overall, World War 2 involved more combatants than practically all of the other US conflicts combined
and that in all conflicts, over 90% of the population took no part.
World War II, at over 9% of the population, had 3 times the participation rate of both the Civil War
(1861-1865)* and World War 1 (1917-1918) at 3 percent. Of the other wars, only that in Korea (1950-
1953) exceeded 2% of the population while only the Vietnam War(1964-1973) involved more than 1% of
the population.
Of the other conflicts, the Gulf War of 1991 had a participation rate of just below 1%, roughly twice the
rate of that in the War of 1812. The Mexican and Spanish American Wars registered a fraction of 1%.
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C. BAR GRAPHS

The charts below show the results of a survey of adult education. The first chart shows the reasons why
adults decide to study.
Write a report for a university lecturer, describing the information below.
To meet people 9%
To be able to change job 12%
Enjoy learning/ studying 20%
To improve prospects of promotion 20%
Helpful for current job 22%
To gain qualifications 38%
Interest in subject 40%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
The bar graph describes the various reasons adults decide to study.
Overall, an interest in the subject encourages people to study more than four times that of the hope to
meet new people.
These two major reasons for study make up nearly 80% of the reasons for study. Approximately half of
the numbers who state interest in the subject, claim that the study would be helpful for their current job
while 2% less than this at 20% of respondents, indicate the need to improve promotion prospects. This
figure is precisely the same as those who state enjoyment of learning or studying as their motivation.
The desire to change jobs is expressed at a figure 8% lower than these two reasons and the wish to meet
people is the least stated reason at less than a quarter of the numbers who study to gain qualifications.
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The graph below shows the percentage of internet users by gender coming from different locations.
Compare the data.
90%
80%
% of User Population
70%
60% Men
50% Women
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
USA Europe Rest of the World
Location
The graph describes users of the internet in the USA, Europe and the Rest of the World with these users
classified by gender.
Overall, men in Europe alone use the internet more than all women combined in the other three
locations and that the USA has the lowest figure for men compared to Europe, which has the lowest
figure for women.
In the USA, 60% of males use the internet, twice that of female users. In Europe the difference is even
more obvious with 80% of men using the internet compared to a figure of lower than 20% for women.
In the Rest of the World, an estimated 70% of males are internet users with less than a 30% figure for
females. This figure is 10% higher than male use in the USA but lower than the USA figure for females.
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The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of different employment
status. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.
The bar graph describes the amount of leisure time various categories of men and women have
depending on their work status.
Overall, there are no statistics presented for males in two of the five categories described and of the
other three, men have more leisure time than women.
Of all the respective categories, unemployed and retired men and women have the most time off, with
males over 80%, approximately 5% more than women in these two categories. In the only other
category where there is a differentiation by gender, again, men in full time work have more leisure time
than women with roughly 50% as opposed to under 40% for their female counterparts.
The other two categories on the graph describe only female leisure time so that a comparison by gender
is not possible. Housewives have 50% leisure time and pat time employed women have 10% less free
time.
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The graph below shows the factories that experienced problems with car production for the years 1994-
1996.
Make a report to the Commission on Transportation describing the information given below.
Car Problems
30
25
Defects/1000 cars
20
A
15 B
C
10
0
1994 1995 1996
Year
The graph describes the number of defects per 1000 vehicles in three factories over the three year
period 1994 to 1996.
Overall, Factory C had the highest defect rate, that Factory B had one year where defects dropped and
that Factory A was the only factory to show a yearly decline in defects to a rate that equaled Factory B
by 1996.
In 1994, Factory A had approximately 23 defects per 1000 vehicles, dropping to roughly 21% a year later
and to around 18% by the third year. Factory B started with the same defects that Factory A started
with, fell to 15% a year later but returned to its initial defect level by the end of the period.
Factory C started with the highest rate at about 28%, falling to an estimated 24% twelve months later,
with perhaps a further 1% drop in 1996.
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Study the data in the figure below, showing the factors which have influenced decision-makers on
environment policy, as obtained by telephone interviews in the UK in 1995.
Describe the pattern of responses.
General awareness 42
Legislation/need to comply 23
Influencing factors
Business concern for the environment 18
Media comment 12
Issues related to disposal 10
Pressure from clients/customers 8
Land/propert dealings 8
Health & safety regulations 8
0 10 20 30 40 50
Percentage of responses
The bar graph describes the various factors that had an influence on decision makers in the UK in 1995.
This information was obtained by telephone interviews of the respondents.
Overall, the category “general awareness “ had more respondents than the last four categories
combined and the first three categories had more than 80% of respondents.
“General awareness” of the issue was by far the most dominant factor in this decision making, 42%
stated this reason, almost twice the number who claimed the need to comply with legislation at 23% of
respondents. 5% less claimed a business concern for the environment with a further 6% less than that
stating median comment as the reason for decision making.
Issues related to disposal, at 10%, exceeded by 2%, the least stated categories of pressure from clients,
land or property dealings and health and safety regulations, all of which had 8 percent of respondents.
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Look at the figures for expenditure on education in the diagram below. Using the information on the
countries given in the diagram, describe the changes in the levels of spending on education, in general
terms and with specific examples.
You should write at least 150 words as if you were writing for a university lecturer.
The information describes the change in education expenditure levels in 10 countries from 1972 to
1986.
Overall, Kenya had the highest expenditure on education by 1986, although lower than its 1972 level
and that Pakistan had the lowest level although higher than its 1972 level.
Bolivia started the highest at over 30% falling threefold by 1986. Kenya, the second highest ,dropped
from a little over 20% to marginally below. There were similar, if lower base rate changes in both
Burkina Faso and Morocco. Tanzania dropped from just under 20% to marginally over 6%,a threefold
drop like Boliva, with Malawi lower than Tanzania in 1972 but higher than that country in 1986 at
around 10%.
Uganda, at approximately 15% dropped slightly 14 years later, Bangladesh fell from roughly12% to 8%.
Oman’s expenditure rose from under 5% to equal Bangladesh by 1986 while Pakistan started at the
lowest level of all and almost reached Oman’s starting expenditure by the period end.
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The bar chart below illustrates the use of tobacco products by secondary school students in the United
States.
Write a report describing the information shown.
35
Percentage of Students
30
25
20
15 Middle School
10 High School
5
0
Any Use Cigars Pipes Kreteks
Type of Tobacco Product
(Source: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: National Center for Health Statistics: Health, US
MMWR Vol. 48 No. 43. Permission granted by Office on Smoking and Health.)
The bar graph describes tobacco product use by United States students at Middle School and High
School. Although 7 bar graph comparisons are illustrated, only three are specified.
Overall, older secondary school students are far more likely to smoke than their younger counterparts
and that most students of both groups never use any of these products.
“Any Use” has almost 35% of High School students compared to a little over 10% for Middle School. The
next most used tobacco group is unspecified, involving 10% less than the former category for High
School students and roughly 8% for Middle School. Cigars are used by less than 15% of the older
secondary school group and approximately a third of that by the younger group.
Kreteks and another unnamed category have the same numbers involved for both groups at slightly
more than 5% for the former and 3% for the latter. Pipes and yet another unspecified group are the
least used for both groups at under 4% and 3%, respectively.
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The graph below shows the number of students by gender using the internet from 1995 - 2000.
Write a report to the school superintendent on the information given.
Teenagers Using the Internet
350
300
250
200 Boys
150 Girls
100
50
0
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
The graph describes internet use differentiated by sex over the five year period 1995-2000.
Overall, internet usage by both genders increased significantly over the period and that from 1998
onwards, the predominate gender use varied, finishing with females as the greater users of the
internet.
In 1995, a hundred males were internet users compared t o roughly 60 females. Over the next two
years both numbers rose so that by 1997 males had exactly 250 users to the females who were just
above 200. In 1998, female numbers exceeded males for the first time and these numbers were
reversed a year later with males at 300 users, about 20 more than females. 2000 saw another reversal
with female usage, again, in excess of male use, a reversal trend repeated in 2001 when males again
predominated in usage, if very marginally.
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The charts below show the number of French adults whose parents spoke a French regional language to
them when they were children and the number who speak a French regional language to their own
children.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.
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The information describes French adults who had a regional language spoken to them in their own
childhoods, either habitually or on occasion and those numbers who subsequently spoke regional
languages to their own children.
Overall, with the exception of habitual and occasional Occitan use, there was an approximate match of
the language spoken to the children of adults who had a regional language spoken to them.
Of the two, Alsatian and Occitan were spoken habitually by around 600,000 each but Occitan was by far
the most used occasional language with over 1 million users compared to about 300,000 for Alsatian.
Breton had the same numbers of habitual users (300,000) with 100,000 more as occasional users. Creole
and Corsican had the least numbers in both categories with Creole occasional users having the most
users at just over 100,000 users. Both had more occasional users than habitual users.
Around 400,000 of these people then used Alsatian with their children, about 150,000 more than
Occitan users. Breton was spoken by less than half that number with Creole and Corsican used the least.
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34.You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The chart shows student expenditure over a three-year period in the United Kingdom.
The bar graph describes eight areas of expenditure for students under 26 years of age in the United
Kingdom over a three year period.
Overall, expenditure varied considerable according to the category described and that most money for
both years went on entertainment, accommodation and food, bills and household goods.
Entertainment absorbed a greater percentage of expenditure for both years with over 30% in 1999 and
a little over 25% three years earlier. Similarly, more was spent on essential travel in 1999 than in 1996
with approximately 6% and about 4% respectively, a fraction of that spent on entertainment for both
groups. The amorphous category, other, was the other area where a greater percentage of expenditure
went in 1999 with around 16% compared to an estimated 12% in 1996.
Food, bills and household goods accounted for exactly 20% in 1996, non-essential travel, roughly 4%,
course expenditure, precisely 10%, accommodation, nearly 23% and children, around 2%. All of these
figures exceeded the expenditure in the same areas three years later. The money spent on children was
zero in 1999.
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The graph below shows the rate of women's literacy and population growth in selected countries
from 1988 to 2000.
The graph describes the relationship between female literacy and the growth of population in ten
countries.
Overall, literacy rates equate in most cases to a lower population growth and yet it is the nation with
only the third highest literacy rate that has the lowest population growth.
This general trend is observable in the Yemen Arab Republic with the lowest literacy rate of all the
examples with 8% literacy and 3.3% growth, Mali with 12% literacy and 3% population increase, Sudan,
at 12% literacy and 3% growth, the Dominican Republic with 84% literacy and a 1.9% increase, Jamaica
at 88% and 1.4% respectively, Sri Lanka at 90% and 1.8%, the lowest population growth of all sampled
nations.
The exceptions to this correlation are Afghanistan with a higher literacy rate than Yemen but with the
highest population growth of all ten nations at 4.5%, Pakistan with a literacy rate 5% higher than the
Sudan but with the same growth, Colombia with a literacy rate that is equal first at 96% but with a
population increase in excess of Sri Lanka and Jamaica with lower female literacy. Thailand, also, despite
96% literacy, has the same growth rate as Jamaica.
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The chart shows the ten top rice-producing countries in 1999.
The bar graph describes the ten highest rice producing countries in the year 1999.
Overall, China and India jointly produce over 300 million tons of rice, almost twice as much as all other
rice producing nations combined.
China, with almost 193 million tons, produces more than 70 million tons than India, the second highest
rice producing nation. Indonesia, the third highest rice producer has roughly a third of India’s
production. Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand have similar yields with the lowest of the three, Thailand
producing about half of the Indonesian yield.
Of the other four, Malaysia produces the most, approximately twice that of the USA’s eight million tons
with Japan 4 million less and the Philippines 6 million tons less than Malaysia’s 16 million plus
production.
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The chart below shows estimated world literacy rates by region and by gender for the year 2000.
Estimated world illiteracy rates, by region and by gender, 2000
60
50
40
Male
30
Female
20
10
0
Developed Latin America/ East Sub-Saharan Arab States South Asia
countries Caribbean Asia/Oceania Africa
The bar graph describes the estimate of global rates of illiteracy in the year 2000. The numbers are
divided by region and by sex.
Overall, in all regions, female illiteracy is higher than that of males.
Developed countries have approximately 1% of male illiteracy and about 2% female illiteracy. Latin
America and the Caribbean have 10% for males and roughly 12% for females with lower male illiteracy in
East Asia and Oceania but markedly more female illiteracy at around 20%. Sub-Saharan Africa has three
times the male illiteracy rate of Latin America and the Caribbean and more than four times the female
rate. The Arab States have marginally lower male illiteracy rates than Sub-Saharan Africa but higher
female illiteracy at over 50%.
South Asia has the most illiteracy of both sexes at over 30% for males and nearly 60% for females, six
times that of female illiteracy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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The chart below shows information about Heart Attacks by Age and Gender in USA.
relevant.
Heart Attacks per Year, USA (2000)
500
424 440
450
400 374
350
(Thousands)
300
250
200 Men
123 136
150
100 Women
50 3
0
29 - 44 45 - 64 65 +
Age group
The graph describes the frequency of heart attacks for men and women in three age groups in the USA.
The data is for the single year, 2000.
Overall, whatever the age group, men have higher rates of heart attacks than females but that as age
increases, these numbers merge so that by sixty five and over, the difference is marginal in comparison
to the younger groups.
For the age group, 29 to 44, 123,000 males have attacks, 40 times the rate of women of the same age.
The age group, 45 to 64, 424,000 men have heart attacks, almost 4 times that of the women. As for
those over 65, the numbers begin to merge with a 66,000 difference or about 15% more men than
women having a heart attack in this age group.
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D. TABLES
39) You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The first chart below shows the results of a survey which sampled a cross-section of 100,000 people
asking if they travelled abroad and why they travelled for the period 1994-98. The second chart shows
their destinations over the same period.
VISITS ABROAD BY UK RESIDENTS BY PURPOSE OF VISIT (1994-98)
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998
Holiday 15,246 14,898 17,896 19,703 20,700
Business 3,155 3,188 3,249 3,639 3,957
Visits to friends 2,689 2,628 2,774 3,051 3,181

and relatives
Other reasons 982 896 1,030 1,054 990
TOTAL 22,072 21,610 24,949 27,447 28,828
18,944 914
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The tables describe both visits made overseas by residents of the UK by the purpose the visit and the
destinations of visits according to region over the same five -year time period, 1994 to 1998.
Overall, of the nearly 29,000 UK travelers in 1998, the vast majority went to Western Europe, seven fold
the numbers that went anywhere else combined.
Holiday travel showed a steady increase from an initial 15,246 in 1994 to over 20,000 by period end,
with the exception of 1995 with a small decline in numbers. Business travel was approximately a fifth of
these numbers with a small increase from 3,155 to just under 4000. Visits to friends or relatives showed
figures marginally below these numbers while other reasons were cited the least ending almost at the
same level of below a 1000 as they started.
Western Europe, with the exception of 1995, showed a steady increase from 19,371 to 24, 519, roughly
20 times the numbers going to North America and more than 10 times the numbers going to Other
Areas, although North American numbers doubled over the period from 919 to over 1,800 and Other
Areas also displaying more than a 50% increase.
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A surprising number of road accidents are caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel. The table shows
factors which affect the likelihood of a sleep-related road accident.
Write a report describing the factors affecting the likelihood of a sleep-related road accident using the
information in the table.
Factors Number of sleep-related accidents

(Total: 1000)
Roads: Town 63
Country 607
Motorway 330
Time of day: 00.00 – 02.00 138

04.00 – 06.00 280
10.00 – 12.00 25
14.00 – 16.00 153
20.00 – 22.00 19
22.00 – 00.00 385
Age of driver: Below 45 390

Above 45 610
The table describes the various factors that are most likely to result in sleep-related accidents on the
road.
Overall, the last four hours of a 24 hour cycle had both the lowest and highest accident rates and of
these accidents, the majority happened to drivers over 45.
The nature of roads is a significant cause of these accidents. Of 1000 accidents , only 63 occurred on
town roads, around a sixth of those on the motorway and a tenth of those on country roads.
In terms of time of day, the least likely accident time was from 8 to 10 pm at 19, followed by 6 more
from 10 am till noon. Midnight to 2 am showed the third highest accident rate at 138, 2pm to 4pm had
the second highest incidence with the highest rate of 385 at 10 pm till midnight, approximately twenty
times higher than the two hours just prior to that. Drivers over 45, at 610, were almost twice as likely as
those under 45 to have sleep related accidents.
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The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in
1999.
relevant.
The information describes 1999 Australian family poverty levels.
Overall, the great majority of Australian households do not live in poverty and of those that do, single
parents make up the greatest percentage and aged couples the least.
The lowest poverty levels are experienced by household types defined as aged couple at 4% or 48,000
Australians. Single aged persons have a rate 2% higher, with couples with no children a further 1%
higher than the preceding group at 7%, above the 200,000 mark.
Although the proportion of single, childless people are listed at 19%, or 359,000, the highest incidence
of poverty, a figure of 21%, is listed for sole parents , which has a lower stated figure of 232,000.
The majority of Australian households, couples with children, experience poverty levels 1% higher than
the average of all households combined. With 933,000, this is approximately half of the total
population of 1,837,000.
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The table and the illustration below give some information on sports injuries which lead to emergency
hospital treatment. Write a report about the information given.
SPORT Number of Proportion Proportion Proportion of

injuries of sports admitted to injuries during
injuries (%) hospital (%) competition/practice
Percentage of injury to parts of

the body for all sports
The information describes the number of sporting injuries in ten sports, the proportion of injuries per
sport, those admitted to hospital as a result of those injuries and injuries occurring during competition
or practice. It also shows the percentage of injuries to the various parts of the body.
Overall, Australian Football has the most injuries, rugby the most hospital admissions because of injuries
and the knee is the least likely injury place.
Australian Football, with 10,122 had approximately the same number as Soccer, Rugby and Cricket
combined. Netball, with 3098, was the sixth most injury prone sport. It had about three times that of
Hockey and four times that of Martial Arts and Squash and Volleyball, the last with the least injuries.
Naturally, the proportion of injuries was directly related to total numbers with Australian Football, at
24.5% having 12 times the numbers of Volleyball.
Hospital admissions as a consequence of these injuries varied. Volleyball had the lowest rate at 2.2%,
with Netball at 2.5%, Hockey at 3.2% and Basketball at 4.1% below that of Cricket and Martial Arts rates.
Although Australian Football and Soccer, with 7.5 and 7.1 respectively were both below the Rugby rate
but Squash had high rates of admissions despite low injury numbers (6.4 verses 1.9%).
As to the place of injuries, shoulder injuries at 21% exceeded head and elbow injuries at 13%. Knee
injuries were the lowest at 2% less.
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The table below shows the number of deaths caused by earthquakes over the past 10 decades for each
country as well as the magnitude on the Richter Scale.
Year Country Magnitude No. of Deaths
1992 Indonesia 6.8 2,200
1993 India 6.4 10,000
1995 Japan 7.2 6,430
1995 Russia 7.5 1,989
1997 Iran 7.1 1,560
1998 Afghanistan 6.9 4,000
1998 Papua New Guinea 7.1 2,100
1999 Colombia 6.3 1,170
1999 Taiwan 7.6 2,000
1999 Turkey 7.4 17,800
2001 India 7.7 19,700
2003 Algeria 6.7 2,217
The table describes earthquake mortality rates from 1992 to 2003. It also describes the 11 countries
involved and the magnitude of these earthquakes.
Overall, one country experienced two earthquakes, that 3 countries had earthquakes in 1999 and 2 in
1995 and 1998 and that one cannot draw a direct relationship between the severity of the earthquake
and the degree of mortality.
India had two of these earthquakes, the first of which, in 1993 had about half the death rate of
2001(10,000 verses 19,700) and which was 1.3 lower in magnitude and the second lowest of all. The
lowest magnitude earthquake happened in Columbia, measuring 6.3 and this had the lowest mortality
of 1,170, almost a tenth of the India level of 1993. The Algerian quake of 2003 was weaker than that of
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Iran, Russia and Taiwan (1992,1998 1997,1995, and 1999) but had higher
mortality than any of these, even though they experienced magnitude6.8, 7.1, 7.1, 7.5 and 7.6
respectively.
Japan in 1995 and Turkey in 1999 had death rates of 6,430 and 17,800, the later with about 10 times the
mortality of the earthquake in Columbia and over 9 times that of Taiwan, both of which had
earthquakes in the same year.
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The table provides information on the market share of fair trade labeled coffee in European countries for
the year 2000. Make a report to illustrate both the percentage of market share in labeled coffee per
country and its implication.
Fair Trade Coffee: Small but Significant

Figure 2: Market Share of Fair Trade Labeled Coffee in European Countries, 2000
COUNTRY MARKET SHARE, % IN LABELED COFFEE
Luxembourg 3.0
Switzerland 3.0
The Netherlands 2.7
Denmark 1.8
United Kingdom 1.5
Belgium 1.0
Germany 1.0
Sweden 0.8
Austria 0.7
Ireland 0.5
Finland 0.3
Norway 0.3
France 0.1
Italy 0.1
Source: European Fair Trade Association, Fair Trade in Europe 2001.
The table describes the percentage market share that coffee labeled as fair trade coffee has achieved in
fourteen European countries.
Overall, the top two nations in terms of market share of fair trade coffee have 300 times that of the two
lowest and that even in these two nations, 97% of coffee is not fair trade coffee.
The first two countries listed have a 3% market share of this coffee and only the Netherlands exceeds
2%. Four other nations have over 1% share with Denmark at 1.8%, the United Kingdom 0,3% less and
Belgium and Germany equal at 1%
All other nations have less than 1% share with Sweden, Austria and Ireland above 0.5% and Finland and
Norway 0.2% lower. Consequently, eight nations have less than 1% market penetration of this type of
coffee.
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The table below shows the types of waste at the University of New South Wales in 1996.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information.
The table describes the different types of waste product produced at the University of New South Wales
in the single year, 1996. Four areas make up the audited material.
Overall, the great majority of waste is compostable materials, paper and cardboard.
A combined 70% of outside eating area waste is made up of compostable materials (40%) with 10% less
comprising recyclable drink containers. Inside buildings waste is mainly paper and cardboard. A4 paper
used on one side is three times more common than that used on both sides (7%). Cardboard is 1% less
and compostable materials half of that. “Other paper” makes up more than half of all the waste.
Skips or building waste containers have wastes that are primarily compostable materials at 40% almost
three times that of cardboard and paper and more than 4 times that of ferrous metal. Food outlets had
cardboard and plastic materials in equal quantity with compostables 3% less than these two categories
at 27% Glass and ferrous metal represented the least waste, both at 3% totals.
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E. PIE CHART

The pie chart given illustrates the online ad placement in the UK by type of sites. Describe the sites and
their corresponding figures.
Online Ad Placement in UK by Type of Site

Financial
Entertainment Services
20% 20%
Other
11%
Web
Navigation
Portal
22% News/
Computing reference
7% 20%
The pie chart shows UK internet placement of advertising.
It is clear that four sites attract more than 80% of total advertising based on the data provided and that
the difference between the first and next three is minimal. Computing is by far the least used site for on-
line advertising, given that the sites which make up the cumulative ‘Other’ are not provided.
Of the six site types described, Web Navigation Portal is the most advertised and computing the least.
The former advertising has 2% more ad placement than the next three, Entertainment, News/reference
and Financial Services, with 20% for all.
The category, ‘Other’ advertising, with no information on what advertising makes up this segment, has
9% less than these three while Computing has the least ad placement at 7%. This is slightly less than a
third of the ads for Web Navigation and almost a third of the other three.’ Other’ advertising is exactly
half of Web Navigation.
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The pie chart given exhibits, in terms of percentage, the smoking frequency of 15 year olds on the
Parkview Secondary Track and Field Team. Write a comparative report regarding the statistics provided.
SMOKING FREQUENCY OF 15 YEAR OLDS ON THE PARKVIEW SECONDARY TRACK AND FIELD
TEAM
Boys Girls
17% Everyday 21%
5% At least once a week

but not everyday
5%
7%
Less than once a
week 6%
Never 68%
71%
The pie charts compare smoking habits of 15 year old male and females who are part of the Parkview
Secondary Track and Field Team.
Overall, the majority of 15 year olds never smoke. This includes more than two thirds of girls and almost
three quarters of boys.
Boys, at 17% smoke 4% less everyday than girls. 5% of both sexes smoke at least once every week but
not daily. In only one category, that of less than once a week, do boys smoke more than girls at 7%, 1
percentage point higher than females.
68 percent of females never smoke but even less of the males never smoke at 71%. 32% of all 15 year
old girls smoke to some degree compared to 29% of boys and in both cases, everyday smoking
predominates. For females, everyday smoking is roughly twice as frequent as the other smoking
categories: once a week or less.
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The graph and pie chart below give information on in-house training courses in a large financial
company.
Training hours per year
10%
5%
30%
15%
Technical
Career development
Health history
Interpersonal skills
Office Workers’ Attitude to Training
Good excuse
for a change
Good for
networking
Manager
Secretary
Important for
job
Waste of
valuable time
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
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The information describes training courses provided in-house by a finance company.
Overall, technical training and career development predominate in training hours. Job opportunities lead attitude to
training while Managers list networking as the second most reason compared to Secretaries for whom an excuse for
a change is more important.
Technical training, with 30%, has 5% more training hours than the other three categories combined. Career
development has half the number of technical training, 5% more than Interpersonal skills and three times that of
Health history.
Attitudes to training compare those of Managers and Secretaries under four categories. The importance for the job
was considered most important to about 90% of Managers and marginally less for secretaries. Over 60% of
Managers did so for networking, more than 20% of Secretaries. 70% of Secretaries did training as a good excuse for
a change, approximately three times that of Managers. A minority of both (10% or less) considered it a waste of time
with Secretaries in the majority here.
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The graph and pie chart below give information on in-house training courses in a large financial
company.
Chart 1: Estimated number of people online worldwide
700
600 552
580
500
420
400
300
200 160
185
100 54 36
26
0
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Chart 2: Internet users in the world 2003
Asia/Pacific Africa
15% 1%
Middle East
1%
USA and
Europe Canada
24% 53%
South America
6%
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The chart and graph below give information about sales and share prices for Coca-Cola.
A lot of bottles
Coca-Cola’s Unit case volume by region 2000, % total Fizzling
Coca-Cola share price, $
Asia
16.4% Latin America
25.7%
Africa and
Middle East
7.0%
Europe
North America 20.5%
30.4%
The figures describe the unit case volume of Coca-Cola sales in five regions in 2000 and the share price for the
product, Fizzling Coca-Cola from 1996 to 2001.
Overall, North America, Latin America and Europe made up more than three quarters of sales and mid 1998 saw the
peak in Coca-Cola’s share price.
North America, at 30.4%, had roughly 5% more sales volume than Latin America and approximately 10% more than
Europe, 24% more than Asia and in excess of four times the sales in Africa and the Middle East.
The share price started at approximately 35 US dollars, doubling two and a half years later before a noticeable dip
and steep increase between 1995 and mid 1998 to about 85 dollars. From then and through to 2000, there was an
irregular but clear decline in the share price to below $50. A ten dollar increase subsequently was followed by
another drop to around $57 dollars.
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51. The pie charts below show responses by teachers of foreign languages in Britain to a survey
concerning why their students are learning a foreign language. The first chart shows the main reasons for
learning a foreign language. The second chart shows how many teachers felt that there has been a
recent change in the reason.
% of teachers reporting the following % of teachers reporting recent increase in

as most common reason for learning: people learning for the following reasons
:rning:
personal
social contacts no change
personal development
7% 15%
development 4%
general interest
7%
5%
business/work
social contacts 19%
buying property travel
15%
overseas business/work 3%
19% 26%
foreign partner
4%
buying property
foreign partner general interest overseas
travel
3% 6% 34%
33%
The pie charts describe foreign language teachers in Britain reporting the motives of their students for learning a
language and the recent changes in these reasons for doing so.
Overall, the most significant change was that of travel dropping to a tenth of its former figure and a significant
increase in buying property abroad as a reason for learning a foreign language.
Travel, at 33% of reporting teachers, was 7% more than business/work and almost twice as much as overseas
property purchase in the first report. These three were over three quarters of all reasons, with the other four-social
contracts and personal development at 7% each, general interest at 5% and a foreign partner-accounting for the
remaining 21%.
Recent changes saw a drop in personal development and business/work, a virtual doubling of social contracts to 15%
(identical to no change), while the foreign partner and general interest remained almost the same. Buying property
nearly doubled
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F. MAPS
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ielts+task+1+maps&qpvt=ielts+task+1+maps&FORM=IGRE
52. You should spend no more than 20 minutes on this task.
The 3 maps show Palm Grove is a coastal town about 450 kms from the nearest city. It has recently
become a major resort. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and
make comparisons where relevant.
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The maps describe the change in the coastal town Palm Grove over a fifty year period from 1950 to
2000.
Overall, hotel accommodation in Palm Grove grew approximately four-fold while docking access was
replaced by air access and a wider road.
In 1950, there were three hotels, two adjacent to the eastern dock and one near the three northern
docks using the beaches as reference points. A two- lane highway skirted the eastern side of Palm Grove
and ran North West in relationship to the two beaches which appeared separated.
Twenty five years later, changes could be observed. The beaches appeared to be joined, there were
three more hotels near the northern docks, another one next to the eastern dock and the road had been
widened by two lanes, while following the same route. Small feeder roads seemed to also allow access
off the main road to both the three hotels to the east and the four to the north.
By the year 2000, the most obvious change was the existence of an airport to allow easier access, given
the remoteness of the town, a 450 kilometer distance from the city. There was also a complete absence
of any docks. Hotels on the northern shore had doubled from the 1975 number from four to eight. The
feeder roads to the hotels in 1975 also seemed to have been removed.
Note: Beware of making value judgments in a Task 1. Do not talk about improvement. It is just change.
Who knows, perhaps life was better with less people! Just describe and compare the data. No emotion.
No opinion of any sort.
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The map below show three proposed sites for a new hypermarket (A, B and C) in the city of Pellington.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and making comparisons where
relevant.
The map describes the three suggested locations for a hypermarket in Pellington
Overall, the effect of residential and industrial areas, together with that of a park and traffic-free area, would have to
be considered when choosing the site, as would the relative merits of the motorway, airport, rail and adjacent town.
Site A is proposed within the residential area, close to a traffic-free zone and relatively close to a park. It, like site C,
has a railway that passes close by, it has an industrial zone to its southwest and it is marginally closer to the airport
than site C. The town of Hampford, at 30,000, a quarter of Pellington’s population, is most accessible to site A, being
15 kilometers to the northwest.
Site C is proposed southwest of the residential area in the countryside. A large industrial area abuts to the east. It is
closer to the motorway than site A.
Site B is suggested in the countryside also but in the northeast and deeper in the countryside than site C. It is east
of the motorway. Site B is closest to the motorway but further from the railway, the airport and the industrial areas
than the other two sites.
Note: This is not a particularly well –thought out question. Who can say which is best from the data
provided. For example, who is building this market? If it is developers, their motivation is profit and so
they would build it where there will be most customers
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If it is a city government proposal, then they have to worry about residents complaining about a noisy
market ruining their neighborhood or upsetting the peace and quiet of the park. Others might not like
one near an industrial area. Others might not like trying to use a market close to a no traffic area. How
will they shop? On that basis C is ideal. Out of the way, accessible by road, no pollution or traffic
concerns.
We are just not told and you cannot assume anything.
So I did not assume anything.
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53.
The map describes the development of Chorleywood Village over a period of 126 years from 1868 to 1994.
Overall, the building of transportation infrastructure resulted in the population growth of the village over this period.
The initial village (1868-1863) was a small area next to the main road. This area is adjacent to the Park and Golf
course, but no date was given for when that was established. The building of the railway in 1909 resulted in
population growth adjacent to the railway, around Chorleywood Station from 1883 to 1922, with a further expansion,
east and west of this area and south of the railway from 1922 to 1970.
The more significant population growth occurred after the building of the motorway in 1970. The population center
shifted east and northeast of the original village, along the motorway and the junctions of that motorway, with both
the older railway and the even older main road cutting roughly east- west to the north of the original center.
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54.
The maps describe the change of Meadowside Village from an autonomous village in 1962 to a suburb of Fonton in
the present.
Overall, the development of population and infrastructure is the reason the village became a suburb of Fonton.
In 1962, the village and Fonton, though adjacent, were not connected. The small road out of the village did not
intersect the Fonton railway so that both were independent of the other.
By 1985, the village had a housing estate, a leisure center and a superstore. The narrow road had broadened and
another road then connected the village directly with Fonton.
This expansion in both directions has resulted in Meadowside Village becoming Meadowside Suburb, an integral part
of Fonton. A branch of the Fonton railway travels west-east, connecting a hotel, station and business park to the
west of Fonton and east of this new suburb.
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55.
The map describes Garlsdon, with a population of 65,000. It shows two possible sites for a new town supermarket.
The map depicts various zones from Town Center to Countryside, with the distance, population and direction of three
smaller adjacent towns.
Overall, the decision as to the supermarket’s location, might depend on how important that factor is when making
that decision.
The advantage of the first site (S1) is that it is in the countryside, thus avoiding traffic problems and that it is less
than 12 kilometers from the town of Hinton to the northwest. That feeder road is relatively close to the north and the
railway is equally close to the south of S1.
The advantage of the second site (S2) is that it would be in the Town Center, closer to the railway, to residential
areas and to the bigger towns of Brandon, 16 kilometers to the southwest and Cransdon, 25 kilometers to the
southeast, with a combined population of 44,000, and with feeder roads to Garlsdon Town Center.
The possible disadvantage of S2, despite the location convenience for most customers, is that it is in a no traffic
zone.
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TASK 1 SAMPLES BY DR.

MURRAY HEASLEY (FORMER EXAMINER)

Turn data into words that describe what is in front of you.

1. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

You should write at least 150 words.

The illustration describes how electricity is generated using wave power.

Planning & Production

Use by Packing &

The illustration describes the digestive system.

The flowchart describes the sorting of eleven types of refuse.

The flowchart describes the recruitment process for Acme Corporation.

The diagram describes the production of hydro-electric power.

15. You should write at least 150 words.

Radio and television audiences in the UK, October-December 1992

Dubai Gold Sales, 2002

Projected number of mobile phones sold, discarded and recycled in Atlanta

500 Mobile phones sold

Table 4 Composition of tourist departures by length of

Time band 1977 1983 1988

<1 month 81.3 88.4 93.9

1 – 2 months 13.1 8.1 4.1

>2 months 5.1 2.7 1.0

Not stated 0.5 0.8 1.0

25. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

To be able to change job 12%

Enjoy learning/ studying 20%

To improve prospects of promotion 20%

Helpful for current job 22%

To gain qualifications 38%

Interest in subject 40%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

Business concern for the environment 18

Issues related to disposal 10

Pressure from clients/customers 8

Health & safety regulations 8

Teenagers Using the Internet

Estimated world illiteracy rates, by region and by gender, 2000

Overall, in all regions, female illiteracy is higher than that of males.

Heart Attacks per Year, USA (2000)

39) You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

VISITS ABROAD BY UK RESIDENTS BY PURPOSE OF VISIT (1994-98)

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998

Holiday 15,246 14,898 17,896 19,703 20,700

Business 3,155 3,188 3,249 3,639 3,957

Visits to friends 2,689 2,628 2,774 3,051 3,181

Other reasons 982 896 1,030 1,054 990

TOTAL 22,072 21,610 24,949 27,447 28,828

Factors Number of sleep-related accidents

Time of day: 00.00 – 02.00 138

Age of driver: Below 45 390

The information describes 1999 Australian family poverty levels.

SPORT Number of Proportion Proportion Proportion of

Percentage of injury to parts of

Fair Trade Coffee: Small but Significant

46. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

Online Ad Placement in UK by Type of Site

The pie chart shows UK internet placement of advertising.

17% Everyday 21%

5% At least once a week

Training hours per year

Office Workers’ Attitude to Training

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%