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Writing Academic Task 1 Band 9.0 Example

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216 words AcademicTask 1Table
Task 1

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Ideas to explore

  • Email use is remarkably stable across the age groups, staying between 90% and 95%.
  • Downloading music and videos shows a clear age-related decline, from 52% among teenagers to 6% among people aged 70 and over.
  • Some activities have an age-group peak rather than a steady trend: gaming is highest in the 20s, while online shopping and searching for people peak in the 30s.

Suggested structure

  1. Introduce the table, its subject and the age groups.
  2. Give an overview of the most consistent pattern and the clearest age-related change.
  3. Compare email and gaming using their highest, lowest and contrasting age-group figures.
  4. Describe downloads, shopping and searching, grouping figures by trend or peak.
  5. Add the travel-reservation comparison using only values that can be matched confidently to their age groups.
Useful vocabulary & examples
remain consistently high
stay at a high level with little change

Email use remains consistently high across the age groups.

reach a peak of
rise to the highest recorded value

Online shopping reaches a peak of 69% among people in their 30s.

decline steadily
decrease gradually and consistently

Downloads decline steadily from 52% among teenagers to 6% in the 70+ group.

by contrast
used to introduce a different or opposing pattern

Email use changes little; by contrast, gaming varies considerably by age.

Task Prompt

The table below gives information on internet use in six categories by age group. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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Band 9.0

The table illustrates the percentage of internet users across six categories, grouped by age. Overall, email usage is the most popular activity across all age groups, while searching for people is the least common activity. Additionally, there are noticeable differences in preferences for other internet activities based on age. It is evident that email usage remained consistently high, ranging from 90% to 95% in every age group. Online gaming, however, was especially popular among people in their teens and twenties, at 80% and 88% respectively, before dropping to 20% among those in their 50s and then rising slightly to 29% in the 70+ group. Downloads of music and videos declined steadily with age, from 52% of teenagers to just 6% of people aged 70 and over.

Travel reservations were most common among people in their 30s, at 74%. The figure was 51% for those in their 20s, then fell to 58% in the 60s before edging up to 61% in the oldest group. Online purchasing peaked at 69% among people in their 30s; it was also relatively high in the 20s to 60s, but stood at 39% for teenagers and 40% for those aged 70+. Searching for people remained uncommon, reaching a high of 33% among people in their 30s, compared with just 3% of teenagers.

Targeted Improvement Tips

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Make the overview name the two broad patterns as well as the most and least common activities: email stays high, while other activities vary by age.
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Group details by pattern: compare the age-related decline in downloads with gaming’s fall after the twenties, then cover activities that peak in the thirties.
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Before finalising, check each figure against its column and use a clear noun such as “the travel-reservation figure” if a later sentence could refer to more than one activity.

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