Academic Writing Sample Task 1 #45
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The charts below show the percentage of their food budget the average family spent on restaurant meals in different years. The graph shows the number of meals eaten in fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants.
You should write at least 150 words.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own
knowledge or experience.
model answer:
Over the past 30 years, the average family has dramatically increased the number
of meals that they eat at restaurants. The percentage of the family's food
budget spent on restaurant meals steadily climbed. Just 10 percent of the food
budget was spent on restaurant meals in 1970, and 15 percent in 1980. That
percentage more than doubled in 1990, to 35 percent, and rose again in 2000 to
50 percent.
Where families eat their restaurant meals also changed during that 30-year
period. In 1970, families ate the same number of meals at fast food and sit-down
restaurants. In 1980, famŽilies ate slightly more frequently at sit-down
restaurants. However, since 1990, fast food restaurants serve more meals to the
families than do the sit-down restaurants. Most of the restaurant meals from
2000 were eaten at fast food restaurants. If this pattern continues, eventually
the number of meals that families eat at fast food restaurants could double the
number of meals they eat at sit-down restaurants.
(164 words)