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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 14th December
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The charts below show the amount of area used for growing fruit between 1993 and 2006 in Washington State (USA). Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The two bar charts compare and contrast data on the changes in the amount of land used to grow apricots, prunes and plums in three agricultural regions in Washington State in America over a 14-year period from 1993 to 2006.
In general, land devoted to growing all three kinds of fruit decreased in area with the notable exception of Wenatchee which began to use more land to grow prunes and plums.
More specifically, more land was devoted to growing prunes and plums in Yakima Valley than apricots despite a dramatic fall from a little more than 1,400 acres in 1993 to exactly 600 acres in 2006. The only area to experience a peak in land usage was in Wenatchee in 2001 with slightly more than 450 acres being used to grow apricots. From 2001 to 2006, the only areas to see no change in the number of acres used to grow prunes and plums were in Wenatchee and other areas where the land used to grow these kinds of fruit remained the same at almost exactly 100 acres and 70 acres respectively.
