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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 1st January
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The charts show the percentage of people working in different sectors in Towns A and B in two years, 1960 and 2010.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The pie charts compare the proportion of the working population in manufacturing, sales and services in 1960 and 2010 in two towns.
Overall, the percentage of the workforce in manufacturing increased in both towns in 2010 compared with the 1960 figures. By contrast, in Towns A and B, the proportion of those working in the sales sector fell in 2010.
In 1960, the figure for workers in manufacturing was 29% in Town A, almost three times higher than the figure in Town B. However, by 2010 the proportion of people in manufacturing had risen in Towns A and B to 64% and 25%, respectively.
On the other hand, the figures for the sales sector witnessed a decline. In Town A, the proportion of the workforce in sales in 1960 was 41% and this fell by over half to 20% in 2010. In Town B, the figure decreased from 70% in 1960 to 53% in 2010.
The percentage of workers in the services sector almost halved in Town A to 16% in 2010, whereas in Town B it rose slightly from 20% in 1960 to 22% in 2010.
