The chart below shows the amount of money per week spent on fast foods in Britain. The graph shows the trends in consumption of fast foods.
Sample Response
The graphs present data on the amount of money spent by the British on fast food in 1990 and the consumption of three junk food items over 2030 years. The expenditure is given per person per weekfor each person in a week in Pence while the consumption is presented in grammes per person. Generally speaking, hamburgers gained popularity over time while fish & chips started to be consumed by less percentage of British. As is presented in the bar graph, in 1990, British people in the high-income range spent about 45 pencemore than 40 Pence in a week on hamburgers, whichhamburgers which was higher than that of other items. They spent only about 17 pence per person16 pence/person on fish & chips while around 2 pence more on pizza. Again, hamburgers werethe hamburger was the most popular item among the middle-income groupmedium income class. They spent about 33 penceover 30 pence on this item while about 8 pence less on fish and chips5 Pence less on fish & chips, and just about 12 pence per person11 Pence/person on pizza. Finally, among the low-income group, fish & chips was the most popular fast food item as they spentspend the most on itthe highest money on this (about 17 pence per person per week17 Pence per week by an individual). Their expenditure on pizzaexpenditure on the pizza was only about 7 pence6 Pence. According to the line graph, people ate fish & chips more than any other fast food in 1970. UK citizens, this year, devoured more than 300 grams of fish & chips while they consumed less than 100 grams of hamburgers and fish & chips. The average pizza consumption started growing and reached about 290 grammes in 1990300 grammes in 1990.
Why this response received Band 6.0
The response is strongest when comparing 1990 expenditure across income groups, where most figures and rankings are reported clearly. Its main limitation is the very incomplete treatment of the consumption graph: the dominant rise in hamburger intake is omitted, pizza is misidentified in one sentence, and the overview captures only part of the trend. Prioritise a two-graph overview and select accurate start-to-end comparisons for all three foods.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The expenditure chart is generally reported accurately, but the overview and consumption coverage omit major trends and include a mislabelled series.
Add the dramatic hamburger rise, the pizza increase, and the fish-and-chips decline with accurate endpoints and comparisons.
Coherence and Cohesion
Information follows a logical chart-by-chart sequence, although the single-paragraph presentation and some awkward reference chains reduce clarity.
Separate the introduction and overview from the two detail sections, and keep each series comparison in a clearly focused sentence.
Lexical Resource
The response uses a useful range of chart vocabulary, but several collocations and quantity phrases are imprecise or unnatural.
Use precise forms such as lower consumption, spent the most, grams per person, and average-income group.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A mix of simple and complex structures is attempted, but article, tense, comparison, and clause-control errors recur.
Check subject-verb agreement and build complete comparison clauses with consistent tense and accurate noun forms.
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
The chart below shows the amount of money per week spent on fast foods in Britain. The graph shows the trends in consumption of fast foods.
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