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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 19th March
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The graph below shows the rate of smoking per 1000 people in Someland from 1960 to 2000.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The given line graph compares the smoking rates in male and female in Someland and how these rates changed between 1960 and 2000.
Overall, there was a gradual decline in the smoking rate in men over the period of 40 years. By contrast, the figure for women tended to increase in a long time before falling slightly. Although two trends were contrary, the smoking rate in men in Someland was higher than that of the women in all years.
In the 1960 -1975, the smoking rate in women in Someland rose significantly before reaching the highest stage, over 300 per 1000, in 5 years from 1975 to 1980. Throughout the remainder of the period, this rate declined slowly, falling to approximately 200/1000 in 2000.
Over the same period, the smoking rate in men in Someland decreased steadily although it was always above that of women over time. 1960 saw the highest point of the whole line graph, at 600/1000, and then the rate (of men smokers) dropped by more than half in 2000. The result was that in 2000 the rate of smoking in men and women in Someland was almost equal at around 200/1000 each.
