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 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 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 the amount of money of a firm donated to different kinds of charity namely social welfare, Education, Environment, health, Wildlife and Arts from 2012 to 2014. Overall,Social Welfare received consistently the largest donation , whilst Wildlife and Arts attracted the least funding much lower. There was a slight fluctuation in all six types between 2012 and 2014. The amount for social welfare …

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