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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 7th June
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The bar chart below shows the preference for different types of Complementary or Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies among US adults in 2007. The table lists which therapies where the most popular over two years.
Summarise the data by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The bar chart illustrates ten Complementary or Alternative Medicine therapies preferred by the proportion of all adult US citizens in 2007. The table lists how the popularity of four of those therapies increased over five years.
Overall, deep breathing and massage therapies increased the most in popularity over the five year period, while natural products was the clear favorite among U.S. adults in 2007.
Between 2002 and 2007, certain alternative therapies showed higher gains than others. Deep breathing and massage saw the biggest gain in use of approximately 4%, while meditation and yoga rose by a less significant 1.9% and 2% respectively.
Of the ten most common CAM therapies, around 1 in 5 adult Americans preferred to use natural products, substantially greater than the second most widely-used technique of deep breathing which stood at 12%. Following these, around a tenth of Americans were likely to do either meditation, chiropractic, massage or yoga, whereas a significantly smaller proportion of fewer than 3% of American adults did the remaining four CAM approaches shown.
