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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

  • 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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User Essay Analysis

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Band 5.0

The plans illustrate the changes of a theater between 2010 and 2012.It seem that the theater was expanded to accommodate more facilities. Overall,a number of changes took place in the layout of the building and new features were added.Only the central part remained relatively unchanged. The 2010,to the right of the entrance of the theater was a café, while the ticket office and admin office were situated on the lower-left side. The media room was above the stage, and a storage area occupied the upper-left corner. The auditorium, with two rows of seats, lay directly below the stage. By 2012, the general arrangement of the stage and auditorium had been retained, including the same seating layout. However, the upper facilities were reorganised: a hall replaced the media room above the stage, the media room was moved to the upper-left side, and storage was relocated to the upper-right corner. A shower area was added on the left, beside the auditorium. The lower section also changed. The admin office remained on the left, but restaurants were introduced below it in place of the ticket office. The ticket office was moved to the lower-right side, where the café had been shown in 2010. Overall, the plans show substantial changes to the supporting facilities, whereas the principal performance and audience areas stayed in much the same positions.

Targeted Improvement Tips

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Replace the unsupported claim that the theater was expanded with a description of how its existing facilities were reorganised.
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Group the comparison by area: describe the stage and auditorium first, then the upper facilities, and finally the lower offices and amenities.
3
Before submitting, check sentence boundaries and spacing, especially after full stops and commas, and confirm that every opening phrase forms a complete sentence.

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