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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 12th May
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The chart below shows the GDP growth per year for three countries between 2007 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The bar chart illustrates the annual GDP growth of three different nations from 2007 to 2010.
Overall, the GDP rate in Tunisia and Ecuador decreased significantly while the figure in Japan increased steadily over the period.
In 2007, Tunisia’s GDP development was highest, at approximately 6.3%, before falling significantly to about 3% and remained stable at the end of the period. Meanwhile, in 2007, the figure for Ecuador was a half of that for Tunisia, but reached a peak of about 5% in 2008, then fell to a bottom at nearly 1.2% before increasing to around 2.2% in 2010.
The GDP growth in Japan in 2007 was over 3 times lower than that in Tunisia. However, the GDP grew to 6.5% by 2010 which was the highest figure shown in this graph. The other important point to note is that the figures in three countries in 2008 were roughly the same number, at appropriately 4.5% for each nation.
