IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 Model Answers (page 2)
The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The alterations in the percentage of households possessing electrical appliances in an unknown country are depicted in a line graph, and another graph shows the number of hours spent per week doing household chores in the same nation from 1920 to 2019.
Overall, over a century, refrigerators’ possession changed most dramatically. Every household had a refrigerator and vacuum cleaner until 2019. As the possession of appliances increased, time spent on housework decreased.
In 1920, no one had a refrigerator in the country, but 30 per cent and 40 per cent of households had vacuum cleaners and washing machines, respectively. In the next twenty years, refrigerators overshot the ownership of vacuum cleaners, and 50% of households had this appliance in 1940. In 1960, the same proportion (70%) of households were possessing washing machines and vacuum cleaners. One hundred per cent ownership of refrigerators reached in 1980, but all households had vacuum cleaners in 2000, and both remained unchanged until 2019. Households who owned washing machines were just above 70% at the end of this period.
The number of hours spent working housework was the highest (50 hours) in 1920. But it reduced significantly to 20 hours in 1960. In 1980 and 2000, people spent the same amount of time on household chores (below 20 hours). But this time further decreased to 10 hours per household per week in 2019.
The diagram below shows the manufacturing process for making sugar from sugar cane.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The manufacturing of sugar using sugarcane is depicted in a process diagram.
Overall, the production of sugar involves seven steps that start with cultivating the sugarcane and end with drying and cooling sugar. There are two methods of harvesting sugarcane. Sugarcane juice goes through different processes to become a sugar.
Sugar canes are grown in twelve to eighteen months, which then become ready to harvest. Harvesting is done in the second stage. There are two methods of harvesting: manual and using a harvester. After that, sugar canes are crushed to extract juice. In the fourth stage, a limestone filter purifies the juice. The juice turns into syrup in the fifth stage when it is heated in an evaporator.
The sixth stage is a centrifuge; at this level of manufacturing, sugar syrup is rotated in a centrifuge, which separates the sugar crystals from the syrup. The obtained sugar is dried and cooled in the seventh stage. After this last step, sugar becomes ready to sell in the market.
The plans below show the site of an airport now and how it will look after redevelopment next year.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The present layout and next year’s redevelopment plan of Southwest Airport are depicted in two maps.
Overall, the Southwest Airport will have more facilities in the future than now. The number of gates will increase, the arrival area will also have some amenities, and travellers could hire cabs in the arrival area. There will be no change in security, passport control, and customs area.
To enter the departure section, now, there is only one entrance, and people can check in and go to the cafe in the departure area. Before going towards the gates, people have to go through passport control and security areas. Further towards the gates, there is an empty area where shops will open in the next year. All of the gates are accessed by a walkway.
After redevelopment, the departure and arrival areas will have two entry and exit doors each. In the departure area, the bag drop facility will replace the check-in counter, the check-in counter will occupy the cafe’s space, and the cafe will move to a corner near the departure entrance. There will be no change in passport control on both sides, security and customs. The sky train will replace the walkway to reduce the travel time to reach the gates. Facilities, such as the cafe, ATM, and cars to hire, are unavailable now but will be accessible in the arrivals area next year.
The diagram below shows the process for recycling plastic bottles.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The recycling process of plastic bottles is depicted in the diagram.
Overall, there are nine steps in which plastic bottles are recycled. It starts with collecting discarded bottles and ends with producing a variety of products: bottles, pencils and others. Sorting, compressing, crushing, and producing plastic pallets and raw materials are the main steps of this process.
When people discard used bottles, these are collected and transported by truck to the recycling centres. At the third level, recyclable bottles are segregated from unusable bottles. Recyclable bottles are then compressed into a block, which is then crushed and obtained plastic shreds are washed in the fifth stage.
In the next stage, cleaned plastic shreds are turned into plastic pallets. These pallets are heated at the seventh stage to obtain the raw material. After getting the raw material at the eighth level, products, such as t-shirts, bottles, boxes, pencils, and recyclable plastic bags, are made in the ninth stage using the raw material. People use these products and discard them. Thereafter, the process starts again.
