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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 2nd January
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The chart below shows the amount of time that people in two age groups spent on different activities in the US in 2011.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The given bar chart illustrates how much time American people from two different age groups allocated to different activities in 2011.
In general, it can be seen that people from both age groups spent most of their time watching TV. In addition, while people aged 75 and over spent more time watching TV, relaxing and thinking, and reading than the younger group, the opposite was true for other activities.
To begin with, Americans aged 15 to 19 years old spent 2.4 hours per day watching TV in 2011, which was almost half the time spent by the older group. Similarly, people aged 75 and over spent 1 hour reading, and 0.6 hours relaxing and thinking, while the figures for the younger group were only 0.2 and 0.1 hours respectively.
Regarding the other activities, people in both age groups spent quite a similar amount of time socializing and communicating every day, at approximately 1 hour. Playing computer games, and doing sports & exercise were more popular among the younger group, at 1.1 and 0.6 hours respectively. Older people, however, only spent 0.5 and 0.2 hours per day on these two activities respectively.
