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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 22nd May
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The graph below presents the employment patterns in the USA between 1930 and 2010.
Summarise the information by selecting and report in the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
In 1930, 70% of the total US labour force was working in farming, fishing and foresting. In comparison, just 10% of Americans were working in other services, less than 5% in sales and offices and none in the industry and technical jobs. Over the 80 years shown, we can see that this distribution of labour has changed markedly.
In the first place, the percentage of those working in farming, foresting and fishing fell steadily from 1930 until 1970 and then steeply over the following 40 years to end up at less than 5% of the workforce in 2010. In marked contrast to this decline, those employed in the industrial sector, after an initial slow rise up to 1970, then increased steeply until the 1990s before plateauing at a little under 40% of the workforce until 2010.
In a similar way, the proportion of the labour force working in two other sectors, sales and office, and technical, accounted for less than 5% of working Americans in 1930 and then rose steadily to end up at 20% and 32% respectively in 2010. Finally, the percentage of those working in the sector called other services showed little change over the 80 year period, beginning and ending at 10% and fluctuating by no more than 8% in the intervening years and not at all after 1990.
IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
IELTS Academic Writing Task 1