Listening for ielts 7 Unit 1

Unit 1
: Listening Activity No. 17 
 
Good morning. I'd like this morning to continue our discussion about British trade, and I have bought a 
couple of pie charts that I'd like you to look at. They give information about British trade by geographical 
distribution in 1987.
The left pie chart is for exports and the right one is for imports. Now let's look first at the left pie 
chart, the exports pie chart. You can see the European Community accounted for 49% of Britain's 
exports trade in 1987, and the other developed countries accounted for respectively, North America at 
16%, the rest of Western Europe outside the European Community at 10% and the other developed 
countries accounted for 5%. These shaded areas represent the developing countries portion. The larger 
one is for other developing countries except the oil-exporting countries, which accounts for 11%. And 
the smaller, which is for the oil-exporting countries, received 7% or Britain's exports in 1987. The last 
and smallest was Britain's rather minor exports to former centrally planned economies and this figure 
was only 2% in 1987.
Now let's take a look at the right pie chart which is for imports. The distribution here is roughly 
similar. The European Community accounted for 53% of Britain's imports in 1987, and the other 
developed countries accounted for ... again ... a large portion. The rest of Western Europe imported 40% 
... oh pardon me, 14% of Britain's imports in 1987. North America accounted for 11%, and other 
developed countries represent 8% of Britain's imports in 1987. Turning to other developing countries 
once again, the largest of the two shaded areas is for developing countries other than oil-exporting 
countries. And these accounted for about 10% of Britain's imports in 1987 and the remaining shaded 
area which is for oil-exporting countries accounted for only 2% of Britain's import in 1987. 2% also is the 
figure for Britain's imports from centrally planned economies, as you can see from the lined area in the 
figures.

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