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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 20th November
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The graph below shows the sales of children’s books, adult fiction and educational books between 2002 and 2006 in one country. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The given line graph compares the sales of three different types of books from 2002 to 2006. It is evident that the sale of educational books and children’s books showed an upward trend, but adult fiction lost popularity over the given time period.
In 2002, adult fiction was on top with a sale of 45 million dollars, followed by children’s books at 33 million dollars and educational books at 25 million dollars. After a few fluctuations, the sale of adult fiction declined to 30 million dollars by 2006. In contrast, educational books were the least sold in 2002. After that their sale showed an opposing trend to that of adult fiction and reached $32 million by 2006.
Sales of Children’s books’ started at $32 million in 2002, but rose rapidly to 42 million dollars in 2003. From 2003 to 2005 there was a very slight increase in sales, but after 2005, sales grew considerably and reached an all time high of $56 million.
Overall, children’s books ruled the market after 2003, among the given three categories of books.
