Writing Academic Task 1 Band 5.0 Example

The line graph below compares production and consumption of oil in China from 1982 to 2006. Overall, it is clear that although the oil used in first eight years was stable, it showed a significant rise in next 15 years to outscale the level of oil production which present slight increase over the mentioned period. According to the plotted lines, production began at about 2 million barrels per day and climbed to roughly 3 million by 1975, then remained close to this level until 1985. It increased only gradually thereafter, ending at around 3.5 million barrels per day. In contrast, consumption started just below 2 million and changed very little up to 1985. It then rose sharply, passing production between 1985 and 1995, and continued to climb to approximately 6.3 million barrels per day at the final point. Thus, consumption was clearly higher than production at the end, with a gap of nearly 3 million barrels per day. One important issue is that the task description gives the period as 1982–2006, whereas the graph's horizontal labels appear to run from 1965 to 2010 and include 2010 twice. Therefore, the exact years for several plotted points cannot be reconciled confidently from this image.