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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 blueprints illustrate the modification of a small performance venue in 2010 and 2012. Taking a board view, there are some notable features including the relocations and renovations of almost all facilities except for the auditorium. In the meanwhile, the construction of a new area in place of the old one is also noteworthy. In 2010, media occupied the upper part of the building, above the stage, while storage was on the left. The auditorium lay below the stage, with 12 chairs. At the bottom, the admin and ticket offices were on the left, a café was on the right, and the main entrance was in the middle.

By 2012, the stage and auditorium remained in the central area, although the auditorium contained 14 chairs. The media room had moved to the left side, and storage was relocated to the upper right. A hall replaced the media room above the stage, while showers were added beside the auditorium. At the lower left, the admin office was joined by restaurants, whereas the ticket office shifted to the lower right. The café was no longer shown, but the entrance remained central. Overall, facilities were rearranged and new amenities introduced, while the main performance spaces retained their basic arrangement.

Targeted Improvement Tips

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Replace the broad opening overview with the key map changes: the hall appears, showers and restaurants are added, and the office locations change.
2
Describe the auditorium precisely: it remains below the stage in the central area, while the chair count increases from 12 to 14.
3
Use one directional route for each plan, such as top to bottom, and check that every relocation or replacement is supported by the map.

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