Task 1 · map · 18 samples

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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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.

Sample answers

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The plans below illustrate a theater in 2010 and 2012. Overall, the Stoage, Auditorium remained the same in 2010 and 2012. And all features were changed. While some rooms were replaced with new rooms in 2020 such as the hall area converted into the media room, stoarge shifted to the left side of the theater. In 2010, the media room was at the top and the storage room was on the left. In 2012, the hall was at the top,…

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The plants illustrate how much particular theater has changed between 2010 and 2012. Overall, over the period the theater witnessed dramatic developments to the North and to the South. The most striking alternation is to the Southern area of the theater, with the Cafe to the right of the main entrance. Additionally, thr ticket office was moved from the lower-left side to the lower-right, while the cafe was removed. I…

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the two maps illustrate small theater before and after the changes of several facilities from 2010 to 2012. In general,it is obvious that the noticeable changes were in the bottom,while the central of the map remained unchanged over the period. In 2010,the media and the stage were located in the top of the map,and storage was on the left side next to these rooms. The auditorium was below the stage and contained twelv…

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