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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 17th December
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The charts below show information about the top five supermarkets in the UK. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The two charts provide detailed information on the top five supermarkets in the United Kingdom in terms of their market share, number of stores and how many employees each company employed in September 2003.
In general, Tesco had not only the biggest share of the market but it also had more employees than its competitors.
More specifically, while Tesco captured 26% of the market with only 119 stores to become the largest supermarket employer in the United Kingdom with 200,000 staff, Morrisons only had a 6% share with 46,000 workers but owned a total of 730 stores, which accounted for the biggest number of all UK stores. Both J. Sainsbury and Asda had very similar figures for the number of stores each owned at 463 and 480 respectively with the market share just favouring Asda with 17% of the market.
This contrasts markedly with Safeway which had a market share of 10%, a similar number of employees to Asda (92,000 and 117,000 respectively) but had the second lowest number of stores with 258.
