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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 23rd December
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The graph below shows the change of the unemployment rate in the 10 years (from 1996 to 2006) in Canada. Write a report for a group of college students describing the information in the line graph below.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The graph shows the change of the unemployment rate in Canada from January 1996 to January 2006. From the graph, we can see that during the ten years, the unemployment rate fluctuated a great deal.
In general, from 1996 to 2002, it was decreasing sharply from 6.6% to 3.8%, a fall of nearly 3 percent. In this period, the year of 1996 saw a dramatic drop of the rate (more than 1%). In the years of 1997 and 1998, however, the rate kept basically stable (a total drop of 0.2% only).
In 2001 and 2002, we see a steady fall, but then from 2003 to 2006, the rate had a sud- den rise, especially in 2003. It went up by almost 2%, and in 2005, it increased to a peak of 6.3%, only 0.3% less than that in 1996.
Although the rate of unemployment fell again from the highest point in 2005 (6.3%) to that of 5.5% in 2006, 5.5% was still higher than that in most of the years.
