IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 with answer.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The table below shows the hours of leisure time spent by people in different age groups in Someland.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
You should write at least 150 words.
Hours of leisure time per year in Someland
Sample Answer:
The table data provides information about the leisure time enjoyed by Someland’s people dividing them in 7 age groups. As is observed from the given data, watching TV was the most preferred leisure time activity while teens had far more leisure time than people of other age groups.
According to the table data, watching television was the most favourite leisure activities. Teens spent 1200 hours to watch television programmes which was highest time spent on any leisure activity. The leisure hours reduced with the increase of ages of people but that again increased when people got old and retired. Only 400 hours were spent by people of 30s age group compared to 1100 hours by 70+ generation. Socialising with less people were done more by the people of 30+ people while it was least preferred by the 20s people. Socialising with more people was preferred by mostly teens. Individual exercise was lease preferred by people from 50 to 70 years old which was only 25 hours. No group exercise was done by elderly people while it was mostly done by young people. Finally teens went to watch movies which comprised 100 hours and this number was 75 for other youngsters and elderly people.