Sample Main Body Paragraphs:
According to what is shown, the category of Food/Drink was the
main expense for people in both years at 42% and 39% respectively. In
2009 transport was the second-highest expense at 22%. Clothes and
furniture had the same ratio of 10%, and people spent the smallest amount
of their income on books at 6 percent.
In 2019 there were a few changes in consumer spending patterns.
People spent the most on food and drink, but at a value of 3% lower than
in 2009, while entertainment became the second-highest expense in 2019,
with a substantial increase from 8% in 2009 to 19% in 2009. The books
category witnessed a significant decrease to just 1% of the total consumer
expenditure.
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thoroughly recheck your work for spelling, punctuation, and grammatical
errors. Careless mistakes can cause a lack of clarity in your report and
lower your score.
You can start practicing now that you have a solid strategy to answer
pie chart descriptions. Remember, practice makes perfect!
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IELTS Pie Chart Exercise 2
The charts below show the proportions of consumer expenditure by
sector.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main
features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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Exercise instructions: Write your response and compare it to
Full Sample Response 2
on the next page.
Write 150-180 words below:
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Full Sample Response 2
The pie charts depict consumer spending changes in
seven different categories in 2009 and 2019.
Overall, the highest proportions were spent on Food
and Drink in both years. Entertainment and Smart Phones
showed sharp increases in popularity too.
Firstly, consumers spent the most on Food and Drink
(42%) and Transport (22%) in 2009. Ten years later, the
figures for Food/Drink stayed almost the same at 39%, but
Transport plunged sharply to 12%. Meanwhile, spending on
Clothes and Furniture did not vary much hovering between
10-11% and 10-8% respectively in both years.
Some of the biggest changes were seen in
Entertainment, Smartphones, and Books. Money spent on
Entertainment more than doubled from 8% to 19%, while
smartphones showed a similar trend increasing five-fold over
the 10-year period. Finally, books appeared to have lost their
appeal comprising just 1% of the total spending in 2019
compared to 6% ten years earlier.
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