IELTS Academic Task 1 Practice Questions

The graphs below show how people in a European city reached their office and got back home in 1959 and 2009.

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The bar chart below shows the estimated sales of jeans for two companies next year in Turkey. The pie chart shows the projected market share of the two companies in jeans at the end of next year.

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The table below shows the number of medals won by the top ten countries in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

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The chart below shows the number of adults participating in different major sports in one area, in 1997 and 2017.

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The bar chart below shows the annual percentage change in the sales of electric cars in four countries from 2019 to 2023.

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The bar chart below shows the hours per week that teenagers spend doing certain activities in Chester from 2002 to 2007

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