Bar Chart
The bar chart shows the divorce rates in two European countries from 2011 to 2015.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
Note: Don’t forget that in IELTS Writing task 1 goal is to describe the presented information in a very clear way and don’t give your personal opinion.
Let’s start writing task 1
Introduction
You should mention 2 things in your introduction:
- What your graph shows
- For what period of time
Given information: The bar chart shows the divorce rates in two European countries from 2011 to 2015.
Rewrite the information in your introduction part: The bar chart provides information about the percentages of divorces in Finland and Sweden between 2011 and 2015
Overview
In the overview paragraph you should briefly describe major trends on your chart. Ideally, you should describe from 2 to 4 key features.
Never write numbers, percentages or dates in the overview.
Remember: the overview paragraph should contain only general information.
Identify key features
- Look at each data separately
- Does it go up or down?
- Does it have fluctuations?
Let’s look at our bar chart
2 Finland also shows some fluctuations.
Let’s write both countries overview together.
Let’s we start to write feature of Sweden.
Let write the Finland features
