IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 with answer.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The line graph below shows the number of annual visits to Australia by overseas residents. The table below gives information on the country of origin where the visitors came from.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information given.
You should write at least 150 words.
Visits to Australia by overseas residents
Number of visitors (million)
Sample Answer:
The given illustration provides data on the annual tourists’ number in Australia and the countries from where these tourists come from. As is observed from the given data, the number of overseas tourists in Australia increased over the period and majority of these tourists came from Asian countries.
According to the line graph, the total number of tourists in Australia was about 10 million in 11975. This number reached to just above 15 million in 1985 and about 25 million in 1995. In the year 2005 total overseas travelers in Australia reached to over 30 million which was more than 3 times than that was in earlier 1975.
The table data shows that about 3 million tourists visited Australia from South Korea in 1975 while it increased to over 9 million in 2005. Number of Japanese tourists in Australia in 1975 was 3.2 million in was 12 million in 2005. Another Asian country, China, was in third position in terms of their tourists travelled to Australia with .3 million in 1975 and .8 million in 2005. US tourists travelling Australia was only .4 million in 1975 which was slightly above the tourists number of China. In 2005 US tourists who travelled Australia reached to 1.1 million. European tourists travelled Australia in 1975 was 1.1 million which was higher than the British tourists. All the countries listed in the table had far more tourists in 2005 than that of their tourists’ number in 1975. Total number of tourists from different countries to Australia was 8.8 million in 1975 and it increased to over 30 million in 2005.