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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 9th January
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The images below illustrate the process of generating electricity at a wood chip-burning power plant.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The images show the process by which woodchips can be used in an appropriate plant to create electricity.
After arriving at the plant, the woodchips are weighed, presumably to establish how much needs to be paid for them or for the proportions of accelerants at the burning stage. The woodchips are then checked to ensure that they are of the optimal size and, if they are too big, the chips are ground smaller. The woodchips are then burned and the heat boils water to produce steam. This in turn is piped out to drive a turbine to generate electricity. The electricity then needs to be transformed before being sent off for use.
The hot gasses and ash that are created in the furnace are separated. The gasses are then released into the atmosphere and the ash is taken away and used in different ways, for example as agricultural fertiliser or as filters in water treatment.
