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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 24th March
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The Table below shows the results of a survey that asked 6800 Scottish adults (aged 16 years and over) whether they had taken part in different cultural activities in the past 12 months. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
| Participation in cultural activities, by age | ||||
| 16-24% | 25-44% | 45-74% | All aged 16 and over % | |
| Any performance* | 35 | 22 | 17 | 22 |
| Undertaking any crafts | 11 | 17 | 22 | 19 |
| Cultural purchases | 11 | 17 | 18 | 16 |
| Any visual arts | 30 | 16 | 11 | 15 |
| Any writing | 17 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| Computer based | 10 | 9 | 5 | 6 |
SAMPLE ANSWER
The table gives information about the proportion of people in/ belonging to three groups of age joining cultural activities within the last 12 months and the general trend of these activities in Scotland.
Overall, it is noticeable that adults aged from 16 to 24 tend to be more engaged in almost every fields of culture, while those aged from 25 to 44 seem to be interested in entertaining performance. Similarly, people aged from 45-74 participated more in craft activities which require less energy and are suitable for them.
It is apparent that 16 to 24-year-old adults had the dominant proportion of almost activities, particularly performance and visual art with the highest percentage among three groups, at 35% and 30% respectively. For the group aged from 25 to 44, cultural performance activities were also the most appealing within the group, although the percentage of adults who participated in this field was slightly lower than the figure for the group aged 16 to 24, at 22%. In addition, merely 6% of the participants from this group joined cultural writing.
By contrast, the group of adults aged 45 to 74 had the lowest proportion of adults participating in most of the activities. However, 22% of the participant from this group taking part in craft activities, which was the highest number, compared to groups aged from 25 to 44 and from 16 to 24, at 17% and 11% accordingly. For the overall proportion of participant in all fields, performance received the most attention with 22% of adults of all ages, whereas a mere of 6% of participant joined the computer based activity.
