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2022-05-04 09:35:57 #IELTS_Academic_Writing_Task_1:
Band 9 Solution
Cambridge IELTS 14 Test 2

The bar chart and table give information about a country's export earnings from five groups of products in 2015 and 2016.

It is noticeable that export revenues in all but one of the five product categories increased over the period shown. While petroleum products were the highest earning exports in both years, the textile industry saw the most significant growth in earnings.

Export earnings from petroleum products rose from around $61 billion in 2015 to $63 billion in 2016, which was an increase of 3%. Income from engineered goods reached a similar level. The country’s export earnings from these goods went up by 8.5% to approximately $62 billion in 2016.

From 2015 to 2016, there was a 15.24% increase in export revenue from textiles, with earnings rising from roughly $25 billion to over $30 billion. By contrast, there was almost no change in the amount of money earned from agricultural products, which remained at just over $30 billion. Finally, the only decline in income occurred in the gems and jewellery product group, where export earnings fell by around 5% to approximately $40 billion in 2016.

Here are some good collocations and phrases from the sample answer that I shared last week.

Remember: a collocation is a group of words that are often used (and work well) together e.g. increased significantly, export earnings, textile industry.

a country's export earnings
export revenues
income from
earnings from
the highest earning exports
it is noticeable that
five product categories
over the period shown
the textile industry
saw the most significant
growth in
rose from... to...
which was an increase of
reached a similar level
went up by... to approximately...
there was a ...% increase in
rising from roughly... to...
there was almost no change in
the amount of money earned
which remained at just over
decline in income
fell by ...% to...

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Two-chart answer/Academic
Cambridge IELTS 14 Test 2

The chart below shows the value of one country's exports in various categories during 2015 and 2016. The table shows the percentage change in each category or exports in 2016 compared with 2015.

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2022-05-03 17:38:46 #IELTSWritingTask1 Two of the sentences below contain a small mistake. Can you find the two mistakes? In 2008, British parents spent an average of around £20 per month on their children’s sporting activities. Parents’ spending on children’s sports… Open / Comment

2022-05-03 17:35:13 #IELTSWritingTask1

Two of the sentences below contain a small mistake. Can you find the two mistakes?

In 2008, British parents spent an average of around £20 per month on their children’s sporting activities.

Parents’ spending on children’s sports was increased gradually over the following six years, and by 2014 the average monthly amount had risen to just over £30.

The number of British children who played football remained relatively stable over the six-year period, at around 8 to 9 million.

Swimming rose from approximately 2 million children in 2008 to around 4 million in 2014.

There was a slight fall in participation in athletics between 2012 and 2014.

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2022-04-25 21:01:14 #sample_answer
IELTS Writing Task 1:

Cambridge IELTS 9, Test 2

The bar chart compares the amount of time spent by people in the UK on three different types of phone call between 1995 and 2002.

It is clear that calls made via local, fixed lines were the most popular type, in terms of overall usage, throughout the period shown. The lowest figures on the chart are for mobile calls, but this category also saw the most dramatic increase in user minutes.

In 1995, people in the UK used fixed lines for a total of just over 70 billion minutes for local calls, and about half of that amount of time for national or international calls. By contrast, mobile phones were only used for around 4 billion minutes. Over the following four years, the figures for all three types of phone call increased steadily.

By 1999, the amount of time spent on local calls using landlines had reached a peak at 90 billion minutes.
Subsequently, the figure for this category fell, but the rise in the other two types of phone call continued. In 2002, the number of minutes of national / international landline calls passed 60 billion, while the figure for mobiles rose to around 45 billion minutes.

(197 words)

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2022-04-25 21:00:49 #writing_task_1
Cambridge IELTS 9, Test 2

The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995-2002.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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