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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 17th January
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The diagram below shows information about the Eiffel Tower and Petronas Towers.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The table provides information on the comparisons and contrasts between two famous towers: the Eiffel Tower in France and the Petronas Towers in Malaysia.
The Eiffel Tower is the older of the two and was built over 120 years ago in 1889. The Petronas Towers, on the other hand, were constructed in 1998. The former took only 2 years to complete, is made of wrought iron and is slightly less than 1,000 feet in height, but the latter took twice as long, used concrete, steel, aluminium and glass and is just less than 1,500 feet tall.
Both of them, however, had been the tallest building in the world with the Eiffel Tower losing the claim in 1930 and the Petronas Towers in 2004. The final cost of each building was $1.5 million for the one in Europe and a little over a thousand times more expensive for the Asian building at $1.6 billion. The Eiffel Tower has only 3 floors and weighs 10,000 tons, whereas the Petronas Towers have 88 floors and weigh 300,000 tons.
