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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 28th October
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The graph gives information about the visitors to Cardiff and Dublin from 2010 to 2020.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The graph shows information about how many people visited Cardiff and Dublin over a 10-year period between 2010 and 2020.
Overall, what stands out from the graph is that there was an upward trend in the number of visitors to Cardiff, but the number of visitors to Dublin saw a significant decrease over the period. A further additional point is that Dublin had more visitors in 2010, but in 2020, Cardiff was much more popular than Dublin.
In detail, the number of visitors to Cardiff started at around 1.5 million (m) in 2010 and then the figure rose steadily to about 2.3m in 2013. After that, the figure levelled off and stayed at 2.3m until 2014. Having fallen slightly to about 1.7m in 2017, the number of visitors then soared, rising sharply to just under 4m in 2018. Lastly, there was a gradual increase, with the final figure finishing at 5m in 2020.
However, if we look at the number of visitors to Dublin, the trend was very different. The number of visitors started at around 4.9 m in 2010, after which there was a considerable fall to approximately 2.3m in 2013. After a slight increase to 2.5m in 2015, the figure then declined steadily to just over 2m before finishing at 2m.
