The charts below show the percentage of food budget the average Australian family spent on restaurant meals in different years. The graph shows the number of meals eaten in fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants.
Sample Response
The pie charts elucidate the proportion of the food budgetratio of food budget the average Australian familyaverage Australian families spent on preparing foodspent for preparing foods at home and for dining in eateries in four selected yearsin four decades. The line graph outlines the number of meals these Australian families ate in two types of restaurants between 1970 and 2010. As is observed, Australians’ budget for restaurantoutdoor meals increased overwhelmingly over the decades and fast food meals were more popular than sit-down restaurant meals after 1980more popular than that of sit-down restaurants among them. The data suggest that preparing food at home in Australia was the main trend in 1980 and only 15% of the food budget was spentonly 15% food fund were spent on restaurant mealsto dine outside but the spending ratio to have restaurant meals increased to 35% in the next decade35% next decades. In 2000, the average Australian familyaverage Australians spent exactly half of their food budget on restaurant mealsto eat at bistros. Interestingly, they spentInterestingly they spend six tenths of their budgetsixth-tenth of their budget to enjoy restaurant foods in 2010 which was exactly four times the 1980 proportionexactly four times higher than that of 1980. The line graphThe table data indicates that an Australian ate around 40 restaurant meals in 1970 including 20 fast-food mealsof which 20 was fast food meals. Over the period, people started having more restaurant meals and fast food became highly popular with about 115 fast-food mealsalmost 120 intakes in 2010 against 60 sit-down restaurant mealsjust over 60 sit-down restaurant meals.
Why this response received Band 6.5
The response captures both visuals' central trends and selects accurate endpoint figures, especially the steady shift toward restaurant spending and the later dominance of fast food. Its main limitation is that intermediate changes in the line graph receive little attention, while frequent awkward wording and grammatical slips reduce precision. The highest-priority improvement is to group and compare the two restaurant series across key years using conventional data-reporting language.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
Both charts are addressed with a clear overall trend and accurate main figures, although the line graph's intermediate pattern is only briefly developed.
Compare the crossover in 1990 and the different rates of growth after that point, rather than relying mainly on endpoints.
Coherence and Cohesion
The report follows a sensible sequence from overview to pie-chart and line-chart details, but its single paragraph limits clear grouping.
Use separate paragraphs for the overview, budget proportions, and restaurant-meal trends.
Lexical Resource
There is a broad attempt at topic vocabulary, but many collocations and labels are unnatural or inaccurate, including outdoor meals, food fund, and table data.
Prefer precise terms such as restaurant spending, food budget, line graph, number of meals, and rose sharply.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Varied sentence forms are attempted, but errors in agreement, articles, noun phrases, and tense occur frequently while meaning remains clear.
Check each sentence for subject-verb agreement and maintain consistent past-tense reporting throughout the historical description.
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
The charts below show the percentage of food budget the average Australian family spent on restaurant meals in different years. The graph shows the number of meals eaten in fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants.
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