Sample Answers for IELTS writing task 1

By Maiysha Bintey Amir

IELTS Instructor
HEXA’S MAJORTILA

Question: The charts below show American spending patterns

between 1966 and 1996

The pie charts compare how Americans spent on different commodities

in 1996 with that of 1966.
From an overall perspective, it is quite evident that, the spending
pattern of American people was significantly higher on food in 1966
followed by cars, while in 1996 this scenario experienced a massive
incline on cars.
As it is observed from the charts, by 1966, the people of American
spent a huge amount of money on food at 44% which was then
followed by the second highest category where cars consumers made
up around a quarter portion at 23%. Petrol as well as furniture sectors,
meanwhile, took roughly 10% of entire money. At the same time,
people were enthusiastic to expand very little amount on restaurants
along with books which accounted for 7%.
Moving to the second pie chart, it has been observed that, in 1996,
people in American enormously made up 45% of their earning on cars
which was similar to the previous year with food. It is noticeable that,
the rate of entire spending on food witnessed a sharp decline over the
same timeframe at 14%. In terms of restaurants and books, people
used a little amount at 14%. In addition, the total expenditure on
computers got a tremendous upward trend which was 10%. Both,
petrol and furniture sectors saw a light amount at merely 8%.

Question: The pie charts below show electricity generation by source

in New Zealand and Germany in 1980 and 2010.
The conferred pie charts enumerate statistical
information about the electricity production from five
different sources in New Zealand and Germany in two
different years 1980 and 2010.
A glance at the pie charts reveal that there were
more units of electricity used in both countries in
2010 than in 1980. In addition, coal was the
predominant one in New Zealand while nuclear
and nutral gas became main fuel sources in
Germany.
Looking at the charts it is clear that New Zealand saw a
significant increase in the units of electricity used from
127 units in 1980 to 200 units in 2010. Similarly, the
figure for Germany also rose remarkably from 105 units
in 1980 to 362 units in 2010. In 1980, the proportion of
electricity generation by coal in New Zealand was 56
units, which was the highest in the total units of sources
of electricity. While electricity sources manufactured by
hydro and nutral gas took up the same units, with 30
units and the figure for petroleum was 11 units.
Regarding Germany, the proportions of electricity
sources were 28 units by coal and nutral gas, about 22
units by petroleum and nuclear, and 7 units by hydro.
Furthermore, in 2010, there were rapid changes in the
sources of electricity generation in both countries. In
New Zealand the figure for coal made up to 150 units in
the total of 200 units of sources of electricity, 50 units
left were in the sources of hydro, petroleum, and nutral
gas. While 155 units were in electricity generation by
nuclear in Germany, which constituted the most of the
total sources of electricity generation in 2010.

Question: The charts below show the percentage of

water used for different purposes in six areas of the
world.
Summarise the information by selecting the reporting
the main features and make comparisions where
relevant
The rendered pie charts compare the statistical
information regarding the differences in the
proportion of water consumption for three main
purposes in North and South America, Europe, Africa,
Central Asia, and South East Asia.
At the onset, it is explicitly observed that agriculture is
the largest consumer of water in Central Asia, Africa,
South East Asia and South America. While industry
consumes more water than other sectors in Europe
and North America.
As it can be observed in terms of Agricultural use of
water contributes significantly to the total water
consumption across the six regions mentioned. In
Africa, Central Asia and South East Asia, agricultural
use contributes more than 80% of the total water use,
whereas industrial and domestic water consumption
contributes less than 20% to the total across all the
three regions.
On the other hand, in North America and Europe, the
water usage trends are quite similar, with close to 50%
of the total water consumption being done by the
industrial sector. Around 30% – 40% of the water is
used by agriculture and around 15% for domestic use
for both these regions. For South America,
agricultural use of water is 71% of the total, and
industrial and domestic use make up for 19% and
10% of the total, respectively.