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Writing Academic Task 1 Band 7.0 Example

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Task 1

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Ideas to explore

  • Identify what stayed constant: the stage, auditorium, fourteen chairs and central main entrance.
  • Track the storage room’s relocation from the left side in 2010 to the right side in 2012.
  • Compare the supporting rooms: the 2010 media room and café give way to a different arrangement including a hall, showers and restaurants in 2012.

Suggested structure

  1. Introduce the two dates and the place shown.
  2. Give an overview of the main features that remain and the overall scale of change.
  3. Compare the upper and side areas, including the media room, hall, showers and storage.
  4. Describe the lower rooms and note the café/restaurant and ticket-office changes.
  5. Finish with the features that remain in the same position.
Useful vocabulary & examples
remain in the same position
to stay in the same location in both plans

The auditorium remained in the same position in both years.

be relocated to
to be moved to a different place

The media room was relocated to the left side of the theater.

be replaced by
to be removed and have something else put in its place

The café was replaced by a restaurant area.

occupy the upper area
to be situated in the top section of a plan

The hall occupied the upper area in 2012.

Task Prompt

The plans below show a theater in 2010 and 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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Band 7.0

The plans presented below illustrate the transformations that occurred in a theater between 2010 and 2012. The two layouts exhibit notable differences in the distribution of facilities, with several areas undergoing significant changes. One of the most prominent alterations is the reorganization of administrative and media facilities. In 2010, the storage area occupied the upper left-hand corner, while the media room and stage occupied the space across the top and middle. The auditorium was below the stage, and the main entrance was at the bottom. The administrative office and ticket office were in the lower-left area, while a café was at the lower right.

By 2012, the layout had changed substantially. A hall had been added across the top, above the stage, while the media room had moved to the upper-left side. Storage was now at the upper right, opposite the media room, and showers had been added beneath the media room. The stage remained centrally located, with the auditorium directly below.

The lower facilities were also rearranged. The administrative office was positioned on the left, above the restaurants, and the ticket office had moved to the lower right. The café was replaced by restaurants on the lower-left side. The main entrance remained at the centre of the bottom edge. Overall, the main changes were the addition of a hall, showers and restaurants and the relocation of support facilities, while the stage, auditorium and entrance retained broadly similar positions.

Targeted Improvement Tips

1
Make the overview identify the largest changes together: the new hall and showers, the replacement of the café by restaurants, and the relocation of the ticket office.
2
Use direct before-and-after comparisons for individual facilities—for example, state where the ticket office was in 2010 and where it appears in 2012.
3
Check spatial references for precision: distinguish the media room on the left from storage on the right, and use “beneath the media room” rather than an ambiguous pronoun.

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