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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 9th August
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The chart below shows tea and coffee consumption in 2015. Write a summary of the information. Select and report the main features, and make comparisons where necessary.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The chart shows tea and coffee consumption per person in 2015 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, Turkey, and Russia.
In general, more coffee was consumed in the seven countries than tea. The UK was the only place where tea and coffee were consumed equally, at 3 kg per person.
Elsewhere, there are nationalities that had similar consumption patterns. Australians and New Zealanders were moderate tea yet high coffee consumers, with the amounts being: in Australia, 1 kg of tea to 3 of coffee; in NZ, 1.25 kg of tea to 3.75 of coffee. Likewise, Canadians and Americans consumed similar amounts of both commodities. In Canada, 0.75 kg of tea was consumed, while 6.25 kg of coffee were consumed – the highest amount of all seven countries surveyed. In the US, a negligible amount of tea was consumed -0.5 kg, while the second-highest amount of coffee was consumed – 5.5 kg.
In 2015, Turkey and Russia bucked the trend by preferring tea to coffee. Turks consumed 5 kg of tea but 2 kg of coffee; Russians consumed 2.5 kg of tea but 1.5 kg of coffee.
