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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 14th March
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The chart below shows the average bed use in three typical hospitals internationally and the proportion of hospital budgets allocates to inpatient care before and after day-surgery was introduced in 2003.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The bar chart gives the data of beds serving in a hospital in three different nations in the period from 1997 to 2006, while the pie charts reveal the percentage of expenditure on in-patient care in 2002 and 2006.
It can be seen from the line graph that, while the number of beds in Chinese and Ukranian tended to increase gradually during the period, French ones which took the last position of the hospitals underwent a decline after a gradual growth.
To specify, Chinese began at the highest point at 70 beds, followed by Ukranian with 55 beds. Both of them increased gradually till 2003 when Chinese continued experiencing an upward trend, going up to 92 beds in 2006, meanwhile Ukranian reached a peak of over 70 beds, before staying unchanged at this point in the last two years. Interestingly, French hospital was at the lowest position at the beginning, 40 beds, then witnessed a rapid growth to approximately 70 beds in 2003, nearly approaching the number of Ukranian. However, it went down dramatically to 40 beds in the end.
In a pie chart, generally, in-patient cost constituted a small proportion of expenditure structure of health service. To specify, it only accounted for 35% of the total money in 2002, followed by a considerable decrease to approximately one-fourth 4 years later.
