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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 1st June
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The pie charts below show average household expenditure in Hong Kong and Britain in the year 2000.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The pie charts show the proportion of money spent on various household expenses in Hong Kong and Britain in 2000.
We can see that in Hong Kong the greatest proportion of expenditure (32%) was on housing, while in Britain housing accounted for just 18% of the total.
In contrast, in Britain the greatest single expense was other goods and services at 36%, compared with 28% in Hong Kong. Food came in second place in Britain, at 22%, while in Hong Kong the actual proportion was higher (27%). In Britain another major expense was transport, at 17%, but this was much lower in Hong Kong (9%). In both countries the smallest percentage of expenditure was on clothing.
Overall, the data indicates that in both cases food, housing and other goods and services were the main expenses, but in Britain, transport and other goods and services took up a higher proportion of total expenditure than in Hong Kong.
