Line Graph là dạng phổ biến và cơ bản nhất trong phần thi Writing Task 1. Đây thường là dạng đầu tiên các thí sinh được học khi bắt đầu tiếp cận với Writing IELTS. Line Graph, hay còn gọi là biểu đồ đường, được dùng để miêu tả sự thay đổi của các số liệu trong một khoảng thời gian nhất định.
Nhằm giúp các sĩ tử có thể trau dồi thêm nhiều kinh nghiệm cũng như được tham khảo thêm các dạng đề thi Writing. IELTS Nhung Tran đã tổng hợp hướng dẫn cụ thể và bài mẫu chất lượng đến từ cô Trần Hồng Nhung – 8,5 IELTS để gửi đến các mem đây.
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Topic: The graph below shows the number of shops that closed and the number of new shops that opened in one country between 2011 and 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Đề bài minh họa.
Sample:
The line graph illustrates the number of store closures and openings in a particular country over the course of 8 years starting from 2011.
Overall, what stands out from the graph is that the numbers of shops closed down and opened both fluctuated significantly with a downward trend over the period. Another significant feature is although the number of new shops exceeded that of defunct retailers in the first year, there were more stores that ceased to exist by the end of the period.
Regarding the number of shop openings, it stood at around 8,500 in 2011 before declining sharply by more than a half to a low of 4000 in 2012. In the next 2 years, there was a considerable recovery in the number of shops opened before the figure dipped again to its 2012 mark. Following this, it remained relatively stable until 2017 and dropped slightly to 3000 in the final year.
A similar pattern can be seen in the number of shops that went bankrupt. In the first 4 years of the period, the figure oscillated between 6000 and just over 7000 shops. Having plummeted to a trough of approximately 500 stores in 2015, the figure increased ten-fold to about 5000 stores in 2016 and hovered around this number until the end of the period.
[218 words – written by Nhung Tran]
Vocabulary Highlights
- Store closures = shop closures = the number of shops closed down = the number of defunct retailers = the number of shops that ceased to exist = the number of shops that went bankrupt.
- Store openings = shop openings = number of new shops = the number of shops
opened.
- To remain relatively stable = to hover.
- To fluctuate = to oscillate.
- To increase = to recover = to rise.
- To decrease = to drop = to decline = to fall = to dipto plummet.
- AB = A exceeds B.