Ielts writing Task & Advanced megapack: ielts academic & General Training

Full Sample Response 2
The pie charts depict consumer spending changes in
seven different categories in 2009 and 2019.
Overall, the highest proportions were spent on Food
and Drink in both years. Entertainment and Smart Phones
showed sharp increases in popularity too.
Firstly, consumers spent the most on Food and Drink
(42%) and Transport (22%) in 2009. Ten years later, the
figures for Food/Drink stayed almost the same at 39%, but
Transport plunged sharply to 12%. Meanwhile, spending on
Clothes and Furniture did not vary much hovering between
10-11% and 10-8% respectively in both years.
Some of the biggest changes were seen in
Entertainment, Smartphones, and Books. Money spent on
Entertainment more than doubled from 8% to 19%, while
smartphones showed a similar trend increasing five-fold over
the 10-year period. Finally, books appeared to have lost their
appeal comprising just 1% of the total spending in 2019
compared to 6% ten years earlier.
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5. Table Descriptions in
IELTS Academic
Writing
 
 
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How to Write a Band 9 IELTS Table
Description
This section will dissect the approach to achieving a Band 9 for Task
1 Table Descriptions.
First and foremost, it is important to remember that Task 1 is
a summary question, not an opinion piece or analysis.
Your 150 word-piece should only consist of information
directly visible from the table given to you, so no
assumptions of any kind.
Your answer will be graded based on your capability to write
about the data in a fluent, structured way and compare
information where possible.
Focus purely on the main features of the data and any
necessary and appropriate details.
Spend only 20 minutes maximum on it; going over will put
you at a great disadvantage for task 2.
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