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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 3rd September
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The two floor plans show the renovation of AAA Accountancy’s main office. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The manner in which AAA Accountancy’s headquarters has been refurbished can be summarised as follows.
In general, the premises have been converted from a closed plan of separate rooms housing cohorts of specialized workers, to an open one, creating a spacious central arena, and a ‘soft’ benefit of more organic channels of communication, as well as a ‘hard’ one, by eliminating the duplication of office equipment.
Regarding this central area, the original ‘three-desk’ offices, dealing with accounts, processing, customers, and payroll, each with its own fax and copier, and accessed by an arterial corridor, have been subsumed (and possibly intermixed) within three rectangular clusters of ‘four-seater’ workstations, all wired to an industrial-sized machine, which now serves all. The consequent saving in space has allowed the inclusion of a sofa-set alongside the southern wall.
Moving to the periphery, the eastside remains essentially unchanged, then, as now, having a lunchroom, meeting room, and manager’s office in a north/south alignment. The westside, however, now sports a smaller storage room (halving the dimensions of the original), and, most significantly, an expanded foyer, with a customer-friendly hemispherical reception island and adjacent sofa-sets, behind which lie elegantly curved walls and sliding-doors, screening the interior from view.
One instinctively feels that this new arrangement is a mammoth improvement in terms of aesthetics, function, and cost-efficiency.
