WRITING IELTS TASK 1 – TABLE

SAMPLE

The table gives information about the proportion of mobile phone users that

used different features on their phones in 2006, 2008, and 2010.

Overall, making phone calls was the most commonly used feature, while

searching the internet and recording video became much more popular once
they became available in 2008.

In 2006 and 2008, all phone owners used their phones to make
calls, although this figure dropped slightly to 99 percent in 2010. The next
most popular feature was texting, which had a small increase over the period,
climbing from 73 percent of users in 2006 to 79 percent in 2010. Taking photos
also had a similar rise, with a 10 percent increase from 66 to 76 percent over the
four years shown.

The biggest increases were for the remaining features. Playing games and

playing music both more than doubled in popularity. The percentage of people
playing games on their phones was 17 percent in 2006 and just over 40 percent
in 2010, while playing music grew from about one-eighth of phone users to a
little over a quarter.

Finally, searching the internet went from being unavailable in 2006 to 73

percent of phone owners using this feature in 2010. While recording video also
became a new feature at the same time, only around one-third of people used
this feature by 2010. (199 words).
EXERCISE

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2.

The tables below give the distribution of world population in 1950 and
2000, with an estimate of the situation in 2050.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main

features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

3.

The table below gives information about languages with the most native speakers.

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

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The table below shows the IELTS score of 4 countries in 2009.