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BEST Writing Task 1 IELTS Academic, 13th October
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The chart below gives information about the most common sports played in New’ Zealand in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The bar chart compares the data about the most preferred sports which were played by both boys and girls in New Zealand in 2002.
Overall, boys were more active than girls in most of the sports except for athletics, netball, and swimming. While the proportions of both genders played basketball and tennis were similar, the figures were dramatically different between boys and girls who participated in different sports.
Among girl, netball was the most common sport which accounted for a quarter followed by swimming with 22%. By contrast, the percentage of girls/ females who enjoyed basketball and tennis were much lower, at 6% and 7% respectively. These were followed by soccer, athletics and martial arts which all had figured of between 2 % and 5%. Cricket was the least popular kind of sports among girls with only 1% of them participated in it. Finally, participation in other, unspecified, sports made up around 10%.
In contrast, among male counterparts, only 1% played/ preferred playing netball. The sports with the highest participation were soccer, swimming, cricket and martial arts with 25%, 13%, 11% and 10% respectively. The percentage of boys who took part in basketball and tennis were slightly higher than that of the girls with 7% and 8%. In addition, there was 18% of boys who played other sports.
