The bar chart below shows the hours per week that teenagers spend doing certain activities in Chester from 2002 to 2007.
Sample Response
The bar chart elucidates how long per week the activities performed by youngsters at Chester between 2002 and 2007.
Overall, it is clear from the given graph that going to pubs, watching television and shopping showed an upward trend while doing homework, doing sport and bowling experienced a downward trend. Watching DVDs fluctuated throughout the periodhad fluctuations throughout the period.
In the first two years, 2002 and 2003initial years 2002 and 2003, the hours spent per week going to pubs/discosgoing to pubs and disco were about 8 and 10 hours, respectivelyaround 5 and 10 hours respectively. From 2004 to 2006After that from 2004 to 2006, the figure remained nearly stable at 12–13 hoursremained constant at around 13 hours. At the end of the period, it showed a slight increase of about 5 hoursaround 4 hours. Watching television was the most time-consuming activitymost favorable pursuit among adolescents. In 2002 and 2003 it stood at 25 hours before increasing gradually in the following yearswhich in the following years increased gradually and finished at aboutbelow 38 hours per week. Shopping also showed a considerable rise throughout the period. It started at about 7 hoursmore than 7 hours and ended at 15 hours per week in 2007.
Doing homework and sport kept on declining gradually, In 2002 these were about 13 and 10 hours and at the end, these stood at around 6 and 2 hours respectively. Watching DVDs showed fluctuations throughout the period, in the beginning nearly 10 hours were devoted to it, and in the last year, it returned at 10 hours again. Bowling was the least time-consuming activity;Bowling was the least pursued hobby, teenagers spent about 4 hours per week on it5 hours per week was given to it by kids then it fell to about 1 hourreached to 2 hours per week in 2007.
So This is Sample Answer of The bar chart below shows the hours per week that teenagers spend doing certain activities in Chester from 2002 to 2007.
Why this response received Band 6.5
The response gives a strong overview of all major trends and covers every activity with generally appropriate supporting figures. Its main limitation is that some values are only approximate or inaccurate, and recurring comma splices and awkward expressions weaken control. The highest priority is to report the chart's figures more precisely while dividing long statements into correctly punctuated sentences.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The overview accurately distinguishes rising, falling, and fluctuating activities, and the details cover all seven categories, despite several imprecise endpoint figures.
Check values such as pubs and discos in 2002, homework in 2007, and bowling at both endpoints against the chart.
Coherence and Cohesion
Information progresses logically from rising activities to declining or fluctuating ones, with clear paragraphing, though some references and sentence joins are loose.
Keep each trend comparison in a separate, well-punctuated sentence and remove the irrelevant final sample-answer statement.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary is sufficiently varied for trends and activities, but expressions such as 'most favorable pursuit' and 'reached to' are occasionally unnatural.
Use precise chart language such as 'most time-consuming activity', 'rose to', and 'fell to' consistently.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The response uses a mix of simple and complex structures, but comma splices, capitalization errors, and occasional agreement or preposition problems recur.
Separate independent clauses with full stops or conjunctions and proofread verb agreement, capitalization, and prepositions.
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
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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