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Writing Academic Task 1 Band 5.0 Example

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Task 1

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Ideas to explore

  • Compare the pace of adoption: refrigerator ownership rose especially quickly between 1940 and 1960, while washing-machine ownership changed more gradually.
  • Identify milestones in appliance ownership: refrigerators reached 100% by 1980, and vacuum cleaners did so by 2000.
  • Set the decline in housework hours alongside rising appliance ownership, while avoiding claims that the charts prove one trend caused the other.

Suggested structure

  1. Introduce both charts, the measures shown and the 1920–2019 period.
  2. Give an overview of the broad appliance-ownership increases and the fall in housework hours.
  3. Compare the three appliances, highlighting their starting points and the years they reached universal ownership.
  4. Describe the housework-hour decline chronologically, noting the plateau at 15 hours between 1980 and 2000.
Useful vocabulary & examples
household ownership
the proportion of households that have a particular item

Household ownership of refrigerators rose to 100% by 1980.

reach universal ownership
be owned by all households shown in the chart

Vacuum cleaners reached universal ownership in 2000.

edge down
decrease slightly

Washing-machine ownership edged down between 1960 and 1980.

remain at that level
stay unchanged at a previously stated figure

Housework time remained at 15 hours per week from 1980 to 2000.

Task Prompt

The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time doing housework and households in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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Band 5.0

the two charts illustrate the proportion of households having electrical appliances (washing machine, refrigerator, and vacuum cleaner) and household spent their time in housework per week (hours) from 1920 to 2019. Overall, the households remained a small proportion having three categories appliances in 1920 before its gradually increase throughout the given periods. The number of households owning appliances rose, although the trends were not identical. Washing machines were present in 40% of homes in 1920, and the figure climbed to 60% in 1940 and 70% in 1960. It then fell slightly to about 65% in 1980, before rising to 75% by 2019. Refrigerator ownership increased most quickly, from almost none in 1920 to around 55% in 1940 and 90% in 1960; it reached 100% in 1980 and stayed at this level. Vacuum cleaner ownership also went up steadily, from 30% to 50% and then 70% in the first three years shown. It reached 90% in 1980 and 100% in 2000, remaining unchanged in 2019. Regarding housework, the weekly time per household decreased throughout the period, from 50 hours in 1920 to 35 in 1940 and 20 in 1960. It then dropped to around 15 hours in 1980 and 2000, and finally to about 10 in 2019.

Targeted Improvement Tips

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Write a two-part overview: appliance ownership generally rose, while weekly housework hours fell substantially.
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Use the chart’s measurement consistently: describe appliance data as percentages or proportions, not as household counts.
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Before submitting, check the opening for agreement and word forms; for example, revise “before its gradually increase” to a complete, grammatically accurate clause.

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