Task 1 · bar chart · 18 samples

Task 1: The chart below shows the donation given to six different types of charity by one company from 2012 to 2014.

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Ideas to explore

  • Identify the category that dominates throughout: social welfare leads in all three years, reaching its highest figure in 2014.
  • Separate steady increases from fluctuating or recovering patterns: health and wildlife rise each year, whereas social welfare falls before rebounding.
  • Notice categories that finish at or near their starting values: education returns to 8, while environment ends at 7 compared with 8 initially.

Suggested structure

  1. Introduce the chart by naming the measure, the six charity types and the 2012–2014 period.
  2. Give an overview identifying the largest category and the broad direction of change.
  3. Describe social welfare separately because its figures are much higher and fluctuate notably.
  4. Group the remaining categories by pattern, comparing their starting, middle and final figures.
  5. End with a concise comparison of which categories finished higher, level or lower than in 2012.
Useful vocabulary & examples
a steady upward path
A consistent increase across successive years.

Health followed a steady upward path, rising from 6 to 9.

fell before recovering
Decreased at first and then rose again.

Environment fell to 5 before recovering to 7.

returned to its starting figure
Ended at the same value as at the beginning.

Education returned to its starting figure of 8 in 2014.

edged up
Increased by a small amount.

Arts edged up from 3 to 4 in the final year.

Sample answers

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The chart illustrates the financial contributions made by a single company to six distinct charities over the period from 2012 to 2014. Overall, the data reveals fluctuations in donations across all categories, with notable increases in social welfare and health, while other categories exhibited more varied trends. In terms of social welfare, the company contributed 22 in 2012, fell to 16 in 2013, and then climbed to…

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The chart given the donation to six different types of contribute by one company from 2012 to 2014. Overall, the donation given to Social welfare hold position highest , while Arts always lowest. The first year the general trend was steady increase. The general trend of the next years after is the same: increase and decrease. Social welfare had the largest amount in all three years, at about 22 in 2012, 16 in 2013 an…

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The presented bar graph outlines the financial participation made by single organization to 6 distinct groups in year 2012, 2013 and 2014. As it is observed the company spends the highest on societal work and average on literacy, healthcare, surroundings and fauna and the least on artistic things. The data depicts that in year 2012 the donation for social welfare was 22, while education and environment both received …

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The chart presents the financial contributions made by a single company to six distinct charitable categories over a three-year period from 2012 to 2014. In summary, Social Welfare consistently received the highest allocation of donations, while the remaining funds were distributed among the other five categories, each exhibiting varying trends in their respective funding over the period. Social Welfare remained the …

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Given is 4 piecharts depicting the data of the two different workers in town A and B from the period of two years between 1960 and 2010, mesured by percentages As we can be seen that the percentage of salers in both town A and B held the most sigificant in 1960. However in 2010, the chart itself gives no information about either town, workers or 2010; instead, it compares one company's donations to six charity types …

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The bar chart illustrates the amount of money, in millions, donated by a company to six types of charities from 2012 to 2014. Overall, social welfare consistently received the highest level of donations throughout the period, while the arts attracted the least funding. Donations to health, wildlife, and the arts showed a steady upward trend, although arts donations were unchanged between 2012 and 2013 before rising i…

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The chart presents the donations allocated by a single company to six distinct charitable categories over the period from 2012 to 2014. Overall, social welfare consistently received the highest donations, whereas arts received the least financial support throughout the three years. In detail, donations for social welfare demonstrated a fluctuating trend: the contributions were at 22 units in 2012, before falling to 1…

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the chart above demonstrates the donation of a company given to six different types of charity from 2012 to 2014that overall, social welfare received most of the donation from the company, while, arts was the option to receive the least money from the donation from 2012 to 2014 the company donated in social welfare in 2012, at approximately 22, before dropping to 16 in 2013 and climbing to 24 in 2014. This category t…

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The bar chart illustrates the grants allocated to six different types of financial aid by a business from 2012 to 2014. Overall, while charitable benefaction received the highest level of funding in terms of social welfare, donations to the Arts consistently accounted for the lowest amount. On one hand, grants in 2014 generally reached the highest figures in most categories. Social welfare dominated throughout, at 22…

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The bar chart illustrates the amount of money donated by a company to six different types of charity from 2012 to 2014. Overall, it is evident that social welfare consistently received the largest donations, whereas wildlife and arts attracted the least funding throughout the period. Additionally, while some categories witnessed fluctuations, others experienced steady increases in donations to health, wildlife and ar…

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The bar graph below demonstrated the six different types of charity by one company received from the payment between 2012 and 2014. Overal, the social welfare industry accounted for highest percentage, highlighting its dominance in six different types of charity, however, there was hit the lowest point in arts. It were interesting to note that, the social welfare donation fell from about 22 in 2012 to 16 in 2013, bef…

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The bar chart illustrates how much money was funded to 6 types of charity, namely social welfare (SW), education, environment, health, wildlife, and arts, by a business between 2012 and 2014. Overall, increases could be seen in the amount of money for all types, except for a decrease in that of environment and a stability in donations to education. In 2012, social welfare received the largest donation, at 22, while t…

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