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Writing Academic Task 1 Band 8.0 Example

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197 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 8.0

The table displays information on types of tasks which were done with the help of the internet by seven age groups. Overall, every age group has high stats of e-mail use. Whereas, searching for people is famous for low rates of use. Concerning specific internet activities, the data reveals that the percentage of individuals using the internet varied considerably by activity and age. E-mail was the most common activity in every group, ranging from 90% to 95%. By contrast, online games were most popular among people in their twenties (88%) and fell to 20% for those in their fifties, before edging upwards among older users. Music and video downloads declined steadily with age, from 52% of teens to just 6% of the 70+ group. Online purchases were concentrated among adults aged 20–60, at 64–69%, while the figures for teenagers and the oldest group were lower, at 39% and 40% respectively. Travel reservations reached a high of 74% among people in their thirties, after which rates were mostly between 58% and 65% in older groups. Searching for people remained relatively uncommon, ranging from 3% among teens to a peak of 33% among those in their thirties.

Targeted Improvement Tips

1
Replace the opening contrast with one complete overview that identifies e-mail as consistently high and online searching as generally low, while noting its higher rate among people in their thirties.
2
Group the details by pattern: e-mail and online purchases; games and downloads; then travel reservations and searching for people.
3
Use past tense consistently when reporting the figures, and check that each percentage is attached to the correct age group.

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