IELTS Writing Task 1: stacked bar chart essay

The chart below shows the total number of Olympic medals won by twelve different countries.

The bar chart compares twelve countries in terms of the overall number of medals that they have won at the Olympic Games. It is clear that the USA is by far the most successful Olympic medal winning nation. It is also noticeable that the figures for gold, silver and bron e medals won by any particular country tend to be fairly similar. The USA has won a total of around !,"## Olympic medals, including appro$imately %## gold medals, &'# silver and ('# bron e. In second place on the all)time medals chart is the Soviet Union, with *ust over +,### medals. Again, the number of gold medals won by this country is slightly higher than the number of silver or bron e medals. Only four other countries ) the U,, -rance, Germany and Italy ) have won more than '## Olympic medals, all with similar proportions of each medal colour. Apart from the USA and the Soviet Union, .hina is the only other country with a noticeably higher proportion of gold medals /about !##0 compared to silver and bron e /about +## each0. /+&1 words, band %0

The table compares the percentages of people using different functions of their mobile phones between !##( and !#+#. Throughout the period shown, the main reason why people used their mobile phones was to ma2e calls. 3owever, there was a mar2ed increase in the popularity of other mobile phone features, particularly the Internet search feature. In !##(, +##4 of mobile phone owners used their phones to ma2e calls, while the ne$t most popular functions were te$t messaging /&"40 and ta2ing photos /((40. 5y contrast, less than !#4 of owners played games or music on their phones, and there were no figures for users doing Internet searches or recording video. Over the following 6 years, there was relatively little change in the figures for the top three mobile phone features. 3owever, the percentage of people using their phones to access the Internet *umped to 6+4 in !##1 and then to &"4 in !#+#. There was also a significant rise in the use of mobiles to play games and to record video, with figures reaching 6+4 and "'4 respectively in !#+#. Note: The above essay isn7t perfect, but it7s still good enough for a band %. 8ou are not e$pected to write a masterpiece in only !# minutes.

IELTS Writing Task 1: did you analyse?

9id you analyse the map essay I wrote last wee2, or did you *ust read it :uic2ly; 3ere are some things that you might have noticed if you analysed it carefully< =ange of verb tenses, and use of both active and passive< ) has been developed, have been built ) has changed ) can be seen ) is, are, include ) was >hrases and collocations that would impress the e$aminer<

) with the introduction of tourism ) new features ) main developments ) the island is accessible ) small huts? ) to accommodate visitors ) physical structures ) in the middle of, to the north of ) completely bare apart from ) where boats can doc2? ) a designated swimming area ) the western tip? of the island ?huts, dock and tip might be the words that most impress the e$aminer in this essay. .an you thin2 why; 9oes this surprise you;