English Practice

Lesson 3 of 6 · Intermediate · Writing · 25 min · +40 XP

Plan and write a complete Task 1 report

Write a complete report with an overview and meaningful comparisons.

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Your exam technique

Introduce → give an overview → group comparisons → verify numbers and units.

Select the important features

Begin with the subject, measure, and years. Identify the largest change, the highest or lowest category, and any reversal. An overview pulls those patterns together. Organise the detail paragraphs around comparisons instead of describing every figure in isolation.

Keep the report factual

Use past forms for completed past periods and preserve the units. An increase from twenty percent to thirty percent is ten percentage points; it is not a ten percent relative increase. Task 1 reports the supplied information, so avoid giving your own opinion or an unsupported cause.

Avoid this common mistake

An increase from twenty percent to thirty percent is ten percentage points, not a ten percent relative increase. Preserve units and do not invent a cause for the pattern.

See it in practice

Starting point

There were 30, then 20. Another number was 20 and then 35.

Using this skill

Car travel fell from 30% to 20%, while cycling rose from 20% to 35% and became the leading mode.

The comparison names the categories, keeps the units, and highlights a change in rank.

Writing practice

Practice table: commuting to a campus

Share of journeys to a campus, by main mode:
Car: 30% in 2015; 20% in 2025.
Bus: 40% in 2015; 30% in 2025.
Bicycle: 20% in 2015; 35% in 2025.
Walking: 10% in 2015; 15% in 2025.
Each year's shares sum to 100%. These figures are invented for practice.

01 / Check your understanding

Try the skill

Choose an answer for each question. You can try again after reading the feedback.

1. Which overview best captures the main patterns?
2. How should the change in cycling's share be expressed?

02 / Put it into words

Make it your own

Summarise the table in at least 150 words. Select the main features and make relevant comparisons. Try drafting in twenty minutes, then review.

Write at least 150 words. Use the checklist and example to review your work; this exercise does not give an automatic IELTS score.

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Before you finish

  • My overview identifies the main shifts and leading mode.
  • I grouped details and supported them with accurate figures.
  • I used percentages and percentage points correctly.
Read one possible response

Compare the choices this writer made with your own. Many different responses can work.

The table compares the proportions of journeys to a campus made by car, bus, bicycle and on foot in 2015 and 2025. Overall, the shares of car and bus travel declined, while cycling and walking became more common. Cycling replaced the bus as the most widely used mode by the end of the period.

In 2015, buses accounted for the largest share of journeys, at 40%, followed by cars at 30%. By 2025, both figures had fallen by ten percentage points, to 30% and 20% respectively. Together, these two modes represented half of all journeys in the later year, compared with 70% at the beginning.

The pattern for the remaining modes was different. Cycling increased from 20% to 35%, a gain of fifteen percentage points and the largest change in the table. Walking also rose, although more modestly, from 10% to 15%. Despite this growth, walking remained the least common way of reaching the campus in both years. The gap between cycling and walking therefore widened over the period.

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