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Lesson on Task 1 writing - how to organise the report

This is part of an interactive lesson on how to approach task 1 writing. The
complete lesson is to be found on Dominic Coleʼs IELTS Blog

The chart below shows the comparison of internet access through

broadband and dial up connections around the world.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown

below.

Percentage of households with broadband or dial up connection in nine countries in 2009

60

45

30

15

0
France Germany UK USA Italy Australia Japan India Malaysia

Broadband Dial up
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A sample answer

This chart shows the relative popularity of broadband and dial up internet access in 10
countries from Europe, Asia and North America.

It is evident that broadband tends to be more common than dial up. In Japan
approximately four times as many houses have broadband (40%) rather than dial up
(10%). A similar pattern can be seen in the USA, Malaysia and Italy. In contrast, in France
and Germany broadband is only 3-4% more popular, while in Australia they are equally
used at 20 %. The major exceptions are the United Kingdom and India where more
houses have dial up access.

The other major point to note is that not all countries have the same level of internet
access. In the USA over 65% of households have internet access, while in India only 20%
do. In Australia, most of the European countries and Japan just over half of the people
have internet at home. Only about 40% of Italians, however, can use the internet at home.
The country with the lowest figure is India at less than 20%.

In summary we can see that there are a variety of differences in internet access through
out the world.

Notes

There are clearly more ways of organising this report. Another possibility would be to write
one main paragraph about broadband and another about dial up.

The main point to note about this task is the organisation of the answer, Each paragraph
focusses on one main point. This point is then developed and explained with supporting
details.