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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 25th March
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The graphs illustrate the sales of fair trade products in the United States between the years 1998 and 2003, and agricultural product imports by the country over a ten-year period.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The bar chart reveals the sales of fair trade products in the United States from 1998 to 2003, while the line graph presents the annual sum of agricultural products imported by the country over a ten-year period.
Except for coffee, the dollar sales of various fair trade products in the United States continuously went up from 1998 to 2003. Tea, followed by bananas, recorded the highest increase in terms of amounts sold. Meanwhile, coffee sales dropped significantly over the six-year period. Nevertheless, increases in tea sales were more than enough to compensate for the drop in coffee sales.
Incidentally, the constant increases in tea and banana sales in the United States coincided with the rapid growth of the country’s imported agricultural products. While imports of agricultural products posted steady increases before 1998, they grew at a faster rate from 1999 to 2003. This was most likely influenced by the increasing demand for tea and bananas, among other fair trade agricultural products.
Conclusion to recap, the overall sales of fair trade products in the United States improved from 1998 to 2003, driven by huge sales increases of tea and bananas. The demand for these two products rose steadily, driving the more rapid growth of the country’s imported agricultural products at that time.
