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HANDOUTS

Average house prices in the UK

Average number of TV viewing hours per day
Number of minutes that Australians spend on housework each week
Mobile phone activities in nine countries

Visual A

Females

385
497
Food Preperation and Clean Up
Laundry
Other Household work
Grounds and Animal Care
Home Maintance
343 Household Management
238 Child Care
Buying Goods and Services
28
28 154 294

Males
168
238
Food Preperation and Clean Up
Laundry
28
Other Household work
63 Grounds and Animal Care
Home Maintance

96 Household Management
Child Care
Buying Goods and Services
21
210
140

IELTS 1/6
Writing 1
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Visual B

Visual C

Visual D
Year Adults Children
2011 4.30 2.45
2010 4.30 2.51
2009 4.01 2.29
2008 4.00 2.31
2007 3.89 2.23
2006 3.86 2.20
2005 3.92 2.25
2004 3.96 2.40

IELTS 2/6
Writing 1
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Exercise 1
Choose the best description of Visual A.

1. The two diagrams show the number of hours that people spend on housework in Australia.

2. The two pie charts give information about time spent on cleaning the house in Australia.

3. The two charts illustrate how much time male and female Australians spend on activities
around the house.

Exercise 2

Choose the best paraphrased description of Visual B.

1. This bar chart illustrates the percentage of people who spend time on different mobile
phone activities each week in 2011 compared to 2013.

2. The bar chart shows activities on a mobile phone in nine countries.

3. The bar chart gives information about weekly mobile phone activities in nine countries in
2011 and 2013.

Exercise 3

Which is the best overview statement for Visual A?

1. The data suggests that Australian men and women prefer to do different tasks around the
home, with women spending more time on most household activities than men.

2. The charts tell us that Australian men do not like doing housework and still prefer to go out
to work while their female partners stay at home and look after the family.

3. The data in the charts show that Australian men do little work around the home while
women spend much more time on all of the household activities mentioned.

What data in the charts supports the main idea?

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

IELTS 3/6
Writing 1
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Exercise 4

Complete the sentences with a percentage from Visual B.

In 2011, about a____% of people used their mobile phones to browse the internet. This
increased to b____% in 2013.
In 2011, approximately c____% of people spent time on social networking compared to d____%
in 2013.
In 2013, e____% of people read reviews whereas only f____% did this in 2011.
In 2013, around g____% of people played games compared to only h____% two years earlier.
Around i____% of people in 2013 compared prices while j____% did it in 2011.

Exercise 5

Write the letter of the percentage from Exercise 4 (a-j) that best matches each phrase (1-10).

____ 1. just under a fifth ____ 2. one in five ____ 3. just under a third

____ 4. one in three ____ 5. just over a third ____ 6. a quarter

____ 7. just under half ____ 8. approximately half ____ 9. just over half

____ 10. just under two-thirds

Exercise 6

Match the verb phrases with the graphs.

____ decrease slightly ____ drop sharply ____ fall steadily ____ fluctuate considerably

____ grow gradually ____ peak at (50%) ____ remain stable ____ rise significantly

IELTS 4/6
Writing 1
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Exercise 7

Complete the sentences about Visual C with a verb phrase in the past tense. Use a range of
language.

1 Between January and June 2010, house prices ____________________ whereas in 2012 they
____________________.

2 Prices in 2010 ____________________ from May until September before they

____________________ to £163,000 in December.

3 Prices in 2012 __________________________ from May to December.

4 House prices in 2011 ____________________ in quarters 2 and 3 but then they ______________
___________ in the final quarter.

5 In 2013, house prices ____________________ in the period between January and December.

Exercise 8

Complete the text about Visual D with the words in bold.

although both compares however more whereas while

The table (1) ___________________ the average number of hours a day that adults and children
watched TV over an eight-year period. It suggests that TV viewing among adults and children
fluctuated over that period, but the trend was not always the same for both.

Over the first three years of the eight-year period, the viewing hours for (2) ___________________
adults and children dropped, although the fall for children was (3) ___________________ significant
than for adults. It fell by 0.20 for children and only 0.10 for adults. Between 2006 and 2008 the
figures rose again steadily for both children and adults. Between 2009 and 2010, the hours
that both adults and children watched TV grew, (4) ___________________ the growth was more
dramatic for adults, changing from 4.01 to 4.30.

In 2008 and 2009, the trends were different among adults and children. There was a slight
increase in viewing hours for adults, from 4.00 to 4.01, (5) ___________________ there was a drop
in hours for children, from 2.31 to 2.29. In addition, in the period 2010 to 2011, the viewing figure
for adults remained stable, (6) ___________________ the number of hours that children watched TV
fell from 2.51 in 2010 to 2.45 in 2011.

The fluctuations in TV viewing hours for adults and children often mirrored each other between
2004 and 2011. (7) ___________________ they did not always follow the same trends or change by
the same amount of time.

IELTS
Writing 1 5/6
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Optional activity: Collaborative planning

The chart below shows the changes in the price of a litre of milk at three different supermarkets
between 2010 and 2014.

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

Recommended MyEnglishLab Homework

IELTS B1
Writing
Activity 1A Task 1 – tables
Activity 1B Task 1 – tables
Activity 2 Task 1 – tables
Activity 13 Presenting, describing, interpreting and comparing quantitative data 1
Activity 14A Presenting, describing, interpreting and comparing quantitative data 2
Activity 14B Presenting, describing, interpreting and comparing quantitative data 2

IELTS 6/6
Writing 1