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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 25th September
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The graph below show the number of working hours per week, in industrial sector, in four European countries in 2002.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The given column graphs compare the number of hours spent on work per week by industrial workers in France, Denmark, Sweden and the UK in 2002. In three countries, it can be seen that the maximum workers worked 36-40 hours, but in France the maximum workers worked 31-35 hours per week.
In France, approximately half the workers worked for 31-35 hours per week. The percentage of people who worked for 36-40 hours and 46-50 hours was 35% and 20% respectively. The figures for the rest of the working hours accounted for around 10% workers each.
Denmark and Sweden witnessed the highest proportion of people working for 36-40 hours, which was quite different from that France. The second and the third place came from 31-35 hours and 41-45 hours workers ( 25% and 10% in Denmark; 35% and 39 % in Sweden) the proportion of people working for the remaining hours was higher in Denmark that In Sweden.
It is interesting to note that the UK, the percentage of people working 50= hours was the maximum. Almost 505 worked 36-40 hours per week.
Overall, France was a country where the people worked for the least hours, where as the Swedish people spent the most time on work among the people from four different countries.
