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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210 words · Illustrative target band

The maps illustrate significant changes in a small theater from 2010 to 2012. Overall, major developments involve the movement of offices and media, the addition of showers ,restaurants as well as the enlargement of stage. It is clear that the storage had been converted into the media and had removed to the right of the stage. In the 2012 plan, the media room is positioned along the left wall, while storage occupies …

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227 words · Illustrative target band

The diagrams illustrate the layout changes of a theater from 2010 to 2012. Overall, the significant alterations were made during those two years are in most of rooms in the theater, such as renovations, constructions, and reallocation. In 2010, the theater had a storage area adjacent to a media room and stage. The stage was positioned between the media room and the auditorium, with the storage area on the left. The a…

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203 words · Illustrative target band

The given diagrams illustrate how a theater changed between 2010 and 2012. Overall, this place underwent a significant change, with the most notable ones being the erection of restaurants, showers and hall. The expansion of stage is also recorded. In the top half of layout, a storage was converted to a media then newly constructed hall. In fact, the upper facilities were rearranged: the media area, which occupied the…

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