IELTS Writing Test Sample with Answers

IELTS Writing Task 1 with Answer

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Answer:

The above graph demonstrates the average of annual temperatures and total hours of sunshine portrayed by London, New York and Sydney. Both London and New York have a four-season climate with New York’s extremity being more conspicuous. Sydney, on the other hand, has a gentle touch to its weather pattern and the weather is, therefore, breezy. When the total hours of sunshine are concerned, New York is the leader, with Sydney following and London being a struggler.

Shifting to the chart, it is evident that London and New York are quite chilly with the former meandering around 10 degree Celsius during November and the latter with frosting 5 degree Celsius during January and February. When the spring approaches, the temperature gradually escalates to 23°C in London in summer and around 30◦C in New York.

Sydney’s weather is pretty much in divergence with the other two with December to February being the sweltering times with over 25 degrees. Whilst, the June and October witnesses a dropping of temperatures to 15 degrees.

The total hours of sunshine of New York (2,535) and Sydney (2,473) go hand in hand with London (1,180) being a lonely friend with a distinctive drop in the hours of sunshine.

IELTS Writing Task 1 - Sample Answer Essay

The chart compares the number of people per household by percentage in the UK in 1981 and 2001.

Answer:

Twenty years changes a lot and this bar chart is evidence of that. This bar chart shows the change in the number of person per household in these 20 years commencing from 1981 to 2001 in the UK. To state, the chart is conspicuous in conveying that households comprising of more people have lessened and the contrary that is household having a decreased number of people have boosted in numbers. Only the subtle change can be experienced in the middle groups, where household consisting of four people have developed from 12% to 15% and that of three has lessened from 20% to 17%. 

The absolute advance is noticed in the households having 1 and 2 people, with the former having a 23% in 1981 and 26% in 2001. And the latter being 31% in 1981 to 24% in 2001 – both of which have expanded by 3 percentages. If we count the household of 5, we can notice that there has been a distinction and the percentage has lessened by 2 to 6%. Similarly, in the household of 6, there has been a cutback from 6% to 2% - as is already noticeable around. 

The middle groups of 4 people household stated an atypical trend with advancement by 3% to 15% and the 3 people household having a breakthrough and resulting in 17%.

IELTS Writing Task 1 - Higher education in 4 countries

The bar chart shows the percentage of young people in higher education in 2000, 2005 and 2010.

Answer:

The bar given above portrays an overview of the number of students who have opted for higher education in four countries with 3 intervals of 5 years from 2000 to 2010. The most noticeable feature in the bar chart given is country B which has a more or less stagnant growth, whereas, the remaining countries’ growth is conspicuous. Country D has witnessed the greatest percentage among all of them, with country A overrunning country C and country B being at the lowest point.

Let us study country D first, in the year 2000 60% of students pursued higher education, then a rise was witnessed in 2005 by 5% resulting in 65% and finally a whopping 80% in 2010. A contrasting trend in noticed in country B which is stuck in 40% in both 2000 and 2010 and a lessening number under 40%. 

Moving to country A, it had 37% of students pursuing their higher education in 2000, following country C by roughly 13%. In 2005, country A and C were seen to rise by 11% and 2% respectively. Lastly, country A was seen to boost to nearly 60% while country C festered at 53%.

IELTS Writing Task 1 - Organisation Expenditure for 4 Industries

The chart below gives information about billions of euros invested in four areas by various organisations.

The bar chart above portrays information about the organizations which have invested the most in each of the four industries: machinery, building, staff training and research. From the chart, the first spectacular thing that appears is the organization B with sky-rising expenditures for staff training and research as compared to others. Whereas, organization D and E were pretty low in their overall funding parameters and organization A and C were in the middle ground. The trends were distinctive in each of them but the building has topped in most of them.

Coming to the expenditure part, in the organization's A and B, machinery obtained €1 billion and a little lesser than 1 in the latter organization. Next, building collected the most in organization A with a huge €1.5 billion and €.1 billion lesser in organization B. A boost in staff training (€1.9 billion) and research (€1.6 billion) is noticed in organization B. Considering that, organization A devoted lesser in both staff training (€1.2 billion) and research (€1.1 billion).

Now, coming to organization C, D and E, machinery has received quite reduced amounts with €1.1 billion for C, €.9 billion for D and €.8 billion for E. building was offered with a similar parameter of €1 billion by each of the three organizations with the assortment for staff training was €.7 and €.9 for all the respective groups. According to further in-depth research, organization C showcased a distinguishing amount of €1.3 billion, D with €.6 billion and organization E with €.7 billion.

IELTS Writing Task 1 - Owned and Rented households

The chart below shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accomodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

From the above chart, one will get an idea about the rented and owned households in the English and Welsh society from the year 1918 to 2011. The most featuring aspect of the diagram is the contrasting trend of owning and renting of the households – with owning experiencing a drastic increase and renting a hefty cutback. With the closure of the period, owning has absolutely taken over renting by a distinctive margin.

The year 1918 witnessed the percentage of owned household at 23%, and that of the rented household marked at roughly 80%. It was from that very juncture, the households saw a rise in ownership and setback in renting. The rentals are seen to be stagnant at 69% in 1939 and continued being the same till 1953 with its fall starting from 1961 being 59%. In the year 1971 both ownership and rentals were hand-in-hand at 50%. 

From that point, there was steep decline in rental and boost in ownership with the former being 40% in 1981 and the latter at 60%, rental at 31% and ownership at 69% in 1991. In 2001, rental loosened to 31% with ownership at 69%. In the end year that is 2011, rental saw a revive and rose to nearly 40% and ownership ending at somewhere a bit over 60%. 

IELTS Writing Task 1 - Caribbean Island

Answer:

The above graph states the number of visitors who visited a given Caribbean island from time frame of 2010- 2017 and opted for two different accommodation – cruise ships and on the island itself. There has been an overall boost in the number of tourists with a particular increase in visitors staying on cruise ships, and beating the increase of number of visitors staying on land slightly.

From the graph it is noticed that during the beginning of the period, the visitors staying on island were at about .75 million, almost 5, 00,000 above those residing on cruise ships. From that, the former’s count jumped to 1.5 million by 2013 which is a million higher than the latter. It is from that time the count of the visitors residing on island became stagnant and that of the cruise ships started rising, outperforming the former figure in 2015. It is in 2017 that the visitor count of the cruise ships touched 2 million.

The boost of both the visitors of the cruise ship and the island resulted in an overall development of visitors which commenced from a million in 2010, and were consistently improving to 2.7 million in 2015, before levelling through 2016, and eventually were at 3.5 million in the end.

IELTS Writing Task 1 - City Hospital Mask

The two maps below show road access to a city hospital in 2007 and in 2010.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Answer:

The two maps presented here demonstrates the overall changes that have taken place in a city hospital from the period of 2007 to 2010. Focusing on a comprehensive view, the main changes that happened are the transportations, which includes additional public parking, the structuring of a nearby bus station and other collateral changes.

The hospital as a whole underwent trivial changes. The roads, like ring, city and hospital road were majorly same with only two small lanes branched out from hospital road to connect the bus station and collaterals on either end of the Hospital road where it crosses with Ring and City road. The City Hospital itself was unchanged. 

The major modifications were seen around the hospital with the parking system being the largest. In 2007, there was a moderate parking lot both for staffs and the public. By the year 2010, they designed a new parking lot solely for the public which was structured alongside east of the city hospital.

IELTS Writing& Task 1 - Female Birth Rate

The chart below gives information about the age of women in Australia when they gave birth to their first child in 1966, 1986 and 2006.

Answer:

The graph above states the number of births given in Australia by different ages of women during the years of 1966, 1986 and 2006. In an overall perspective, the birth rate among younger women declined while that of the middle-aged women increased greatly. Women who were aged 30 – 34 were the biggest group than the ones who were 19 or over 40 having the lowest birth rate.

Firstly, let us take into consideration the youngest group of women ageing under 19 and 20 to 24, the birth rate has seen a sharp setback. The first group commenced with around 33% in 1966 before declining to 20% in 1986 and a tremendous fall in 2006 with nearly 15%. Now, the group of 20 to 24 in a similar manner curtailed from 60% in 1966 to 40% in 1986 and concluded at just above 30%.

Mothers who were aged 25 – 30 were the second in winning in 1966 with 37% before lowering to 50% and then to 42% by 2006. Women who hailed from the 30 to 34 age gap were witnessed to rise steadily from 12% to 19% and then ruled by staying at 47%. 34 to 39 years old were also rising from 7% to 12% to 29%. The last phase only saw women aged 40+ increasing but were less than 5% of total mothers.

IELTS WRITING TASK 1 - MAP OF A PARK

The plans below show a public park when it first opened in 1920 and the same park today.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Answer:

The above map displays the changes that took place from 1920 to the present day in Grand Park located in Arnold Avenue. From the overall perspective, it is evident that the major areas of change have been the addition of entertainment factors like the amphitheatre and areas of recreation. There have been massive changes in the seating arrangements and the only similar area were the entrances and a minor garden.

The most noticeable change is the shift of the fountain from the midst of the garden and planting of the rose garden in its place with seats surrounded. Previously where there was a stage for musicians, now there is a large amphitheatre which is faced towards the garden for a better view. The placing of the amphitheatre compromised the seating arrangements which were there at the extreme left side and also the rose garden at the bottom left end of the map.

Though the entrances have been the same, the upper side of the right part has a newly constructed café by replacing the rose garden. There is a children’s play area in the place of the pond for water plants. Replacing the glasshouse and some seats, there is a new water feature built. Finally, there is a new entrance underground car park.

IELTS WRITING TASK 1 - COFFEE & TEA BUYING HABITS

Answer:

The above chart displays five Australian cities and their actions concerning coffee or tea over the last four weeks. All the cities but Adelaide stepped out for a cup of coffee or tea in the cafes with the purchase of instant coffee being hyped and fresh coffee experiencing a setback.

Commencing with visiting cafes for coffee or tea, with Melbourne and Hobart topping at 64% and 63% respectively, following it is Sydney with over 60%, Brisbane crossing 55% and lastly Adelaide with under 50%. It is be noted, out of all the other cities, Adelaide outnumbers the percentage of instant coffee purchase by a slight margin (50%). While Hobart in terms of instant coffee is at 54%, Brisbane at 52%, Melbourne at 48% and lastly Sydney with over 45%.

The percentage of fresh coffee was always at a low percentage of 45 for all the cities. Sydney was placed at 44%, Melbourne at 42%, Hobart at 39% and Adelaide and Brisbane were quite low with around 34%.

IELTS WRITING TASK 1 - Water Usage

The pie charts below compare water usage in San Diego, California and the rest of the world.

Answer:

The above pie-charts gives an insight into the water usage in San Diego and California in comparison with the whole world. It is apparent from the overall perspective that, San Diego and California have used water mostly for residential purposes, followed by industrial use then agriculture. In contrary, the worldwide usage of water has resulted in utmost use for agricultural then industrial and lastly residential.

San Diego County and California both consumed waters mostly for residential with 60% and 39% respectively, thereby following similar patterns. The second most used segment is the industrial part with 23% and 33% in San Diego and California respectively. The final segment is the agriculture part with San Diego using 17% and California using 28%.

Lastly, the worldwide usage of water has mostly been for agriculture with 69%. Following it is industrial usage for 23% then lastly residential for 8%.

IELTS Writing Task 1 - Exports of various categories

The chart below shows the value of one country’s exports in various categories during 2015 and 2016. The table shows the percentage change in
each category of exports in 2016 compared with 2015.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Answer:

The graph along with the table given gives an insight into a country’s export income in billion dollars from 2015 – 2016 across numerous industries. The perspective derived from the overview states that only gems and jewellery suffered a minor setback, while the remaining experienced a boost. When it comes to earning, the majority rise is made by petroleum and engineered goods whereas a whopping rise has been seen in the textiles and engineered goods sectors.

The petroleum products witnessed a rise from $61 billion to $63 billion in a year and the engineered goods from $58 billion to a high $61 billion. This results in a 3% increase for petroleum and a comparatively more increase of 8.5% for engineered products.

Coming to the other exports, gems and jewellery noticed a great setback and are the only export to go down by 5.18% or $43 billion to $41 billion. But agricultural products have been stagnant throughout the period despite a 0.81% rise, it was around $31 in 2015 and slightly over $31 billion in 2015 and 2016. Textile products were the lowest at $26 billion in 2015 and were at par with agricultural products in 2016.

IELTS Writing Task 1 – Movie Production

The chart below shows the number of films produced by five countries in three years. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Answer:

The above bar graph presents the data of films produced by five countries in three years – 2007, 2008, 2009. From the overall perspective, it can be said that country A produced the most films followed by country B, whilst countries C, D and E have been low in terms of production. Country B’s boost was the highest whereas country A after two consecutive high production levels, had a setback afterwards. The other nations experienced slight uplift.

Country A is leading the production in 2007 followed till 2008 with roughly 87 movies but experienced a fall in 2009 to 80. While the contrary happened with country B where the manufacturing was only 50 in 2007, followed by 3 more movies in 2008 and a whopping 17 more in 2009 – marking the highest leap among all.

Coming to the last three, countries C, D and E had the lowest numbers and no year witnessed them producing more than 20 movies. To state the exact digits, 8 movies were produced in C in the first year, the following year 2008 saw a twofold increase, and the last year 2009 it was finally 18. Country E too experienced an elevation from 9 films to 12 films by the end year. But country D experienced some real low as it went from 13 films in 2007 to 8 in 2008 marking to be the lowest among all countries that year and lastly recovering to 12 films in 2009.

IELTS WRITING TASK 1 - Bicycles

The table below shows the percentage of the population who rode bicycles in one town by age group in 2012. Summarise the important information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Answer:

The table above presents the data of people hailing from myriad age categories who rode bicycles in a specific town in the year 2012. From the overall perspective, it can be said that the percentage of women throughout the age categories were higher than that of male. Also, there has been a setback in the overall percentage of both male and female age groups during their 40s and 50s, but the 60+ age group had a striking comeback.

Coming down to the figures, mostly the age group of 0-9 saw the most percentage of riding a bicycle with the female at 52.5 and male at 51.2 – this also marks the slightest age gap among all the groups. The next age-group of 10-19 saw a contrasting age gap with girls at 43.6% and boys at 25.1%. This trend is followed by the next age group of 20-39 where 18.2% of females chose to ride bicycle whereas 10.8% of men just chose the same. The age group of 40-59 saw a comparatively less age gap between female and male cyclists with 13.7% and 9.3% respectively.

Lastly, the age group 60+ saw a reverse of this trend with females at 19.8% and males at 14.6% respectively.

IELTS WRITING TASK 1 - Music Concerts

The graph below shows the percentage of people in different age groups in one city who attended music concerts between 2010 and 2015.

Answer:

The above graph showcases the number of people attending musical concerts from the period of 2010 – 2015 based on different age groups. It is noticed that the age group 55 – 64 is the only one to suffer a setback and on the other hand, the youngest group of 16 – 24 were witnessed to visit the most.

The age group 45 – 54 visited the concerts the most having a percentage of 52. Though it also suffered a fall in 2011 and went down to 40% and that made way for the age group 16-24 to rise from 15% to 55% marking the highest rise. It is from this point that these two groups are moving together with similar trends as the 16 – 24 age group hits 70% and the other one with its highest being 54%.

There are some contrasting effects in age groups 25-44 and 55-64. While 25-44 falling from 40% in 2010 to 30% in 2013 but also saw a rise to nearly 50% in 2015. The other group grew steadily intersecting the younger one at 30% but suffered from a fall to almost 20% by the end of the period. The final group of 75+ were noticed to jump from 10% to 20% in the first year itself, but by the next year came down to where it began. Eventually climbed to 20% by the end of the period.

IELTS Writing Task 1 - Nutrient Count

The charts below show the average percentages in typical meals of three types of nutrients, all of which may be unhealthy if eaten too much.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features,
and make comparisons where relevant.

Answer:

The graph above displays the amount of sodium, saturated fat and added sugars consumed in the average meal of a US citizen. It is prominent from the facts that sodium and saturated fat were most consumed during dinner time and sugar in the snacks. Lunch also contributes to more salt, while breakfast seems to be lacking in all these three nutrients, thereby having the lowest percentage.

Sodium count was at a greater percentage in both dinner and lunch with 43% and 29% in lunch. Shifting to the saturated fat count, dinner was at 37% and lunch at 26%, again following a slight similarity. The sugar percentage in dinner and lunch was quite low with 23% and 19% respectively.

Breakfast and snacks, the remaining two meals have quite a comparable percentage having 14% sodium for both. Coming to saturated fats, breakfast is at 16% and snacks slightly higher at 21%. When it comes to sugar, there is quite a distinction with snacks at 42% and breakfast with just 16%.

IELTS Writing Task 1 - Instant Noodles Making

Answer:

The above diagram shows the process of making instant noodles. It is an absolutely man-made procedure which can be segmented into 4 parts commencing with the arrangement of raw ingredients, assembling the dry noodles, cooking and eventually packing for future use.

The process initiates from the storage silos where the flour is kept. It is followed by the transportation of the flour with water and oil from another source to the mixer then rolled in dough sheets which marks the beginning of the assembly line steps. These sheets are divided into strips by the help of factory machinery and formed into a circular ‘noodles disc’ which is to be fried in oil, dried, and mixed with assorted veggies and spices eventually placing them in a cup.

The last step of the final preparation includes labelling, sealing and lastly sending them across for consumer use.

IELTS WRITING TASK 2 - Practical Skills

Many feel that students today should learn practical skills at school such as car maintenance and managing a bank account.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Many affirm by the fact that schools should teach practical skills which are considered prerequisites to students. My subjective opinion is, schools should solely be for academic purposes.

The most favourable factors of learning life skills is being independent and skilful. It is no wonder that students pass out from high school with proficiency in foreign languages, science, anatomy, literature and more. But what they lag is, maybe car maintenance where a flat tire or oil needs to be changed, making their food, and performing house chores. It is said that school knowledge will inevitably be forgotten in later life due to the loss of exercising. But the practical skills will be thoroughly remembered due to its daily applicability.

Nevertheless, schools have always been the absolute place for academic knowledge and practical skills, there is nothing better than home. Most of the students simultaneously learn the art of daily works while studying at school. Cooking can also be learnt gradually while at home, but what the school preaches can only be learnt from those scholars and there is also a specific time frame in life to learn about that. Now, self-study from books cannot gift you with the oration received from a history or maths teacher. All these myriad subjects allotted in school life may have a huge impact on the germination of knowledge of all kinds in a student’s mind. Though it is true that the knowledge won’t be intact in somebody’s mind all through the years but will help build intellect.

To conclude it, practical skills are necessary for every student but it should only be included in the curriculum if they can seamlessly be linked and will not affect the course of study.

IELTS Writing Task 2 - Wild Animals And Human Beings

Some people think that resources should be spent on protecting wild animals, while others think those would be better used for the human population.

Discuss both sides and give your own opinion.

Answer:

It is no wonder that people question the rationale behind splurging money on wild animals when the earth has numerous needy human beings unable to survive properly. In my subjective voice, the philosophies to prioritize human beings can never counterbalance the helplessness wild animals feel and their loss of refuge. 

To add more to the advocacy for humanity, some people consider human beings are to be celebrated more than wild animals. They further consider that human beings are functioned to cope with advanced evaluative skills, possess more emotionally convoluted life, and to top it all, human beings are inclined towards obligating to members of their class. Discord between wild animals and human beings are pretty orderly. That is evident during a recent plight when a boy slipped into a gorilla cage in the zoo and the boy was being saved only after the animal’s demise. This incident made way to clamour among human beings, and in this scenario, only a fanatic would state that the human should’ve died. The more the allowance for wild animals, the more contraction in funding for the underprivileged – thereby, elevating preference for wild animals.

One thing can be stated, the jeopardy to the life of wild animals is compelling with each day and their survival is becoming questionable. If we consider human beings, no matter how fragile few are, nothing can outplay humanity as a whole. In contrary, the imperilled species like bald eagles, cheetahs, lions and polar bears are almost on the verge of extinction. They come across threats like poaching, deforestation, climate changes and more. These endangered species cannot be preserved without the aid of human beings. As once they’re washed away, nothing can bring them back – this is the existential threat that empowers the funding cause to hold the species to earth. 

To conclude, it can be stated that human lives’ worth is greater but the crisis that the wild animals are witnessing can only be curbed by the affection of human beings.

IELTS Writing Task 2 - Consumer goods production

The increase in the production of consumer goods results in damage to the natural environment.

What are the causes of this?

What can be done to solve this problem?

Answer:

There is undoubtedly a rise in the demand for consumer goods among people which has in return increased the industrial production of products but has an offered threat to the environment. This essay will throw light on demonstrating this major issue and at the same time propose remedies.

The injustice towards the environmental factors can be traced back to the governmental policies. There has been so much of a clash among countries that it has never concluded in a balanced global policy. Though there has been quite some pursuits regarding the same, for instance, the Paris accords, but biggies like the United States and China who are the leaders in the business sphere are skeptical about leaving behind their competitive advantage and are averting signing their own autonomy. In fact, the developing countries feel that the more they put their attention on boosting environmental protection, the bigger the loss they will face in terms of standards of living. This issue is mingled with the soliciting of the corporate groups and the decaying of government throughout the world. Few giant companies should finance the studies for bills which encourage developing production and at the same time cutting down on environmental costs. 

The danger posed at the environment can be resolved by strategizing some stringent governmental policies. In Europe there are certain environmentally conscious nations which portrays the idea of how the actions must be taken. The European Union is abiding by all the rules and are signing the same, and are also invoking its constituent members to acknowledge the rules produced on the charters like utilizing carbon credits, eradicating plastic bags and curbing the disposal of toxic waste. Additionally, they’re also inspiring the use of solar and wind power and keeping a check on the least.

The rest of the world can certainly learn the techniques from Europe and discourage themselves from being overly dependent on fossil fuels to drive their need of consumerism. 

IELTS Writing Task 2 - Private and Work Life

Some people like to spend their leisure time after work with co-workers while others prefer to keep their private life separate from their work life.

Discuss both sides and give your own opinion.

Answer:

Most of the employees have a secluded life after their work which they generally spend with their family or themselves. They normally forgo meeting colleagues after their work hours. But in my personal opinion, building a resolute connection with colleagues is proper but having a group of balanced friends outside work is a necessity too.

Socializing with co-workers after getting done with work is a simplified way to go. Mostly all the employees finish off with their work around the same time and making plans with them is a convenient way. They engage in making plans when their work is about to end and invite each other for a drink, or dinner, play a sport or watch a movie. The relation among the colleagues is quite prominent as most of them are aware of each other’s individuality and it makes way for bunching up with people and groups they’re inclined towards. When the employees initiate hanging out with their colleagues and become affable to each other, they look forward to the dusk for the work to end.

Nevertheless, having a distinct social life is a need too. After-work catchup with colleagues for dinner or a drink may give rise to conversations about work-related issues, office politics and gossiping – which is never a proper thing to do. These small talks incite frustration and pessimism and make one feel low in self-esteem. But a conversation with a school or college friend will rejuvenate the old times and engaging in conversations not related to work will de-stress them, abide them from delving in conversations related to gossiping and comparing. 

No wonder people who are attached to work-life and even after work parties with the same colleagues, feel drowned in desperation and hopelessness. Getting out of that flock is a need to loosen up.

IELTS Writing Task 2 - School students working for free in companies

Many schools today require students to work without pay for companies as part of their education.

Is this more advantageous to students or companies?

Answer:

Students pursuing internships without being paid is quite common these days. The schools are instrumental in sending students to companies to ace up their idea about the particular course they’re studying.

Now, every single business – be it a conglomerate or local business, would want to have a cutback on their expenses against and boost their profits. The best way to implement it is, making the students work for free by cutting down on labour costs and benefitting the profit margin, at the same time offering them hands-on experience to develop their pragmatic knowledge. It can be explained with a realistic example, a boutique store engaging the students in getting the raw clothes and materials from the market, helping the accounts team with trivial works, stocking the shelves according to the prices and classifications and at times handling the cash register. All these actions require a limited amount of training and an uphill battle and are apt for students. All these tasks when done by the students, resulting in a sizeable amount of savings by the business and schools to give them out for training. 

When it comes to students’ perspectives, they generally don’t wish to work in a dull and dreary atmosphere but is inclined towards a dashing work in an eventful place. A hypothetical example would be a student studying media studies being placed for an internship at a local television station which is exciting but filled with drudgery. Now, in this high-skilled ambience, an accomplished employee will be needed to instruct and train them for the same. The student would try to make a distinct impact on the workplace by not committing any mistake and gain appraisal. The student would receive knowledge about the industry, but this would be conveyed as a form of charity by the company. 

IELTS Writing Task 2 - Medical Research

Research into medical treatments are essential to improve health and fight disease.

Who do you think should fund this research: individuals, private companies or governments?

There should always be a conspicuous aim towards researching for medical treatments to curb every possibility of arrival of new diseases and cater to old ones. Researching for medical treatments, according to my opinion, should be regulated chiefly by the government and the powerful private companies. 

The government is indebted to the public of the nation as they’re the exclusive tax-payers, and is the former’s obligation to perform activities serving the nation’s interest – in which researching for medical treatments tops. The perfect instance of this can be explained by the role of government for medical services when the theory of disease was invented by Louis Pasteur in the public-funded University of Lille in France. Now, it is quite improbable for him to design his work solely, on the other hand, private biggies recognizing the emphasis of his work is questionable too. Till date, government funding is more inclined towards bringing out the best medical treatments for the nation but they do not have an insight towards profit-making. 

Nevertheless, government mechanisms are pretty lethargic, stagnant and not funded enough to perform their functions fruitfully – the private organizations being quite the contrary. Private companies are aimed at earning high-margin profits, therefore they’re unique in their approach, competitive in nature and offer the best pay to worthy candidates, eventually the work done is faster and better. The development is noticeable in spheres like stem cell therapy, nutrition, pharmaceuticals, cancer treatment, surgical methods and emergency medications. Government projects tend to become complacent but the private ones are more focused towards innovation. But, these private institutes can make a hole in the pocket as splurging money to savor the treatment is the only way out – government works to keep them in check. 

To conclude, it can be stated that, government measures are instrumental in arranging medical researches but private organizations shouldn’t be completely defamed but kept under stringent policies. 

IELTS Writing Task 2 - International Language

Some believe that we should invent a new language for international communication.

Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

Answer:

Words have been doing the rounds that a new language would be designed for the purpose of global communication. In my opinion, the implementation would be filled with certain advantages but thinking of the economic side, it is unattainable. 

An international language is backed by people who receive economic advantages from it. The question with a new international language would be – whether it would wash away the barriers to success presently? In this regard, it can be said that for the longest time, English has been the spotlight and people hailing from English speaking nations are privileged but the ones from non-English speaking backdrop are the disadvantageous ones as they cannot afford to learn it privately. If a new mutual language is created it would keep these prejudices at bay. Additionally, it would also be beneficial for the developing countries as they would now be able to communicate in a swift manner in the global market, and transfer their services.

Nonetheless, the unlikeliness to implement a new language would always be because of its possibility. Let us consider the language English, despite it being age-old, developing countries still couldn’t grasp it in an absolute manner. The whole world is pillaring the English schools and the language, and encouraging people to enrol in the same but still there is a hefty percentage of people unable to master it. Learning a new language would be highly unrealistic as the whole world would again have to emerge on a learning process, whereas English is already prevalent as language for communication. The amount of money needed is overwhelming, impractical and inimical to both the citizens and the society.

To conclude it can be stated that, a new language for communication would have far-reaching disadvantages. Instead, working to make English as the primary language by financing education properly would lead to numerous recognitions. 

IELTS Writing Task 2 - Travelling

Many people today are choosing to travel to other countries.

Why is this happening?

Is this a positive or negative development?

Answer:

The present time has seen an enormous rise in international travel. This diversification has happened because there is a boost in the income of the middle-class group which previously didn’t happen along with a reduction in the fare of the flights. 

Nowadays, people are travelling internationally as they can afford to do it because of the feasibility. The last half-century has witnessed a growth in both the developed and developing group of organizations along with the accompanying expansion of middle-class people. In present times, the working people have the extra amount of money to spend on travelling which was nowhere to be found in the ancient days. Along with that, cheaper flight tickets have come to the rescue. Boeing is instrumental in presenting cheaper and better aeroplanes which have resulted in a battle among related companies and the conclusion is even more efficient planes connecting with the need of the middle-class people. 

Shifting to the fortune, travelling is nothing less than optimism and it is considered attainment in humanity. The time is not oblivious when people were born and passed away in the same place. A handful of people possessed enough money, time and means to travel the world. But today, the development in the working sectors has offered an upscale among most of the citizens. They’re saving to roam around Europe, witness the wonders of the world, or go for a vacation in any of those antique places. Travelling is always considered as a miraculous event which the previous generations were deprived of. 

Lastly, it can be said that international travels are a boon to the economy as well as for the people’s rejuvenation. Certain environmental hazards have indeed been on the rise but it is tourists themselves who’re making a positive change as well. Words have been doing the rounds that a new language would be designed for global communication. In my opinion, the implementation would be filled with certain advantages but thinking of the economic side, it is unattainable. 

An international language is backed by people who receive economic advantages from it. The question with a new international language would be – whether it would wash away the barriers to success presently? In this regard, it can be said that for the longest time, English has been the spotlight and people hailing from English speaking nations are privileged but the ones from non-English speaking backdrop are the disadvantageous ones as they cannot afford to learn it privately. If a new mutual language is created it would keep these prejudices at bay. Additionally, it would also be beneficial for developing countries as they would now be able to communicate swiftly in the global market and transfer their services.

Nonetheless, the unlikeliness to implement a new language would always be because of its possibility. Let us consider the language English, despite it being age-old, developing countries still couldn’t grasp it in an absolute manner. The whole world is pillaring the English schools and the language, and encouraging people to enroll in the same but still, there is a hefty percentage of people unable to master it. Learning a new language would be highly unrealistic as the whole world would again have to emerge on a learning process, whereas English is already prevalent as the language for communication. The amount of money needed is overwhelming, impractical and inimical to both the citizens and the society.

To conclude it can be stated that, a new language for communication would have far-reaching disadvantages. Instead, working to make English as the primary language by financing education properly would lead to numerous recognitions.

IELTS Writing Task 2 - Advertisements

Some believe that people will purchase a product based on their needs and advertising is not needed.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Answer:

People argue that advertisements are an utter waste as humans are driven by their subjective demands and ads play no role in it. I detest by this opinion completely as advertisements provide a guarantee of quality along with a variety of options.

Advertisements are till date the most reliable method of promoting a particular brand and simultaneously stating its elevated quality. The content of the ad is less conspicuous than the very fact that they were able to produce, distribute and mostly obtain a celebrity endorsement. For instance, the KFC ads are filled with football players as they’re signed to present the uplifted value of the brand they’re showing. In case of a lesser-known brand advertising, it can be claimed that the company is earning enough revenue to fuel money into advertising the product or service they’re manufacturing.

Another prominent characteristic of advertising is – it not only quenches the demand but also creates them. Have you ever wondered the ancillary products or services that you use were never necessary until you saw the advertisement and ran to fetch it? Ads hit consumer psychology and they purchase products which become habitual eventually. Apple products are quite heavy on the pockets but in the last few decades we have come across certain people owning it, ads were instrumental in luring them to buy it, even if they didn’t need it. The ‘think different’ campaign instilled in the minds of the common people that they had to be unique and opted for the Apple products. Now, there are even more in the number who wants to get into the classy family and this has become natural.

To conclude this, it can be said that, the world cannot run without advertisements at this point. But it can be regulated, consumers can examine their needs before purchasing.

IELTS Writing Task 2 - Physical Exercises

Some believe that the best way to stay fit is to join a gym or health club while others think doing everyday activities such as walking and climbing stairs is enough.

Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

Answer:

Many consider performing day-to-day activities is the best solution to fitness rather than stepping into the gym. I think daily chores can provide enough fitness but joining a gym will reward the person with a guaranteed figure.

Health benefits will be counted for those who are involved in thorough walking activities. On average, the doctor advises people to walk 10,000 steps daily. With the FitBit and Apple watch coming in the scene, it has become swift and easy to track the steps and this makes it even beneficial to workout at home than hitting the gym. This also makes the people who cannot make time for the gym to engage in physical activities and make time for daily habits too. One can engage in the stairs instead of taking the elevator as it is a great way of cardio, or while in office walk around more often and let the FitBit do the work. All these will keep on adding to the daily regime and eventually lead to a healthier lifestyle.

Nevertheless, working out in the gym provides a person with added benefits and they get to learn the techniques to perform the activities. The world has patients of heart disease in plenty, and the best way to prevent the same is exercising and following a proper diet. Aerobic exercises have been acclaimed by the researchers for keeping heart diseases at bay. The gym is home to distinctive aerobic exercises – on treadmill and elliptical. Doctors recommend heart patients to enrol for gym sessions and engage in it holistically as they need high-intensity workouts and not mere walking.

In the end, it can be said, hitting the gym is a good option to choose. One needs to work on abiding by the proper diet and avoiding the sedentary lifestyle that keeps back from working out.

IELTS Writing Task 2 - Gap Year

After graduation many students take a year to travel. Some think that it would be more useful to work for a year.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Answer:

Most of the benefited students hailing from the developed nations engage in travelling for a year between the ending of their high school and commencing of university days in place of working part-time. Now, in my subjective opinion, giving time to leisure is a way better and healthier option than engaging in the drudgery of part-time work in this short period.

The main objective behind recommending working during this interim period is, students can gather work ethics which are needed in professional advancement. Moreover, it has been noticed that people getting into jobs leave behind their bad habits. To explain this let us take a man who has recently started working, he has to be punctual, work efficiently, have an optimistic attitude, bear prolonged working hours and eventually receive a trivial amount as their pay. This is the exact manner of entailing an accommodation of the person’s personal wishes with the desires of the society. The ones who opt for working during this period will enter university with a professional, disciplined and sober outlook.

Nonetheless, leisure is a necessity too and immersing in travelling for that time will gift the students with a rejuvenated feeling and is considered a valuable skill. Though it is mostly witnessed people opt for part-time works during this time and end up giving time for travel even after their graduation. Those people have worked or studied for the longest time in their lives without allotting time for travel. But they regret it during the time of their retirement when they’ve spent most of their lives working and then eventually feel restless. Travelling requires engrossing yourself at the moment, seizing the time, getting out of the comfort zone, play with different hobbies and skills, and most importantly not think about work.

Generally, after having a career and family, finding time for travel is next to impossible. Therefore, it can be concluded that the gap year should be spent travelling.

IELTS Writing Task 2 - Fame

Due to television and the internet it is easier today for a large number of people to become famous.

Is this a positive or negative development?

Answer:

Becoming famous has become even more feasible because of the emergence of television and internet availability. It is a boon for the entertainment industry as it provides it with immense divergence. 

The ones denouncing this occurrence call out to the talentless fellows. Previously, some musicians and comedians would whet their talent day and night to manage a single slot in one of the talk shows, and it is then they receive acclamation. But in the present time, some celebrities commenced from a reality TV show or Youtube channel without possessing a recognizable talent. For instance, the socialite Paris Hilton took benefit of her wealth and personality and designed a brand of her own – without having any distinct product. Then Kim Kardashian, who is a more recent addition, gained fame by dating celebrities and artfully exploiting social media and television and that resulted in her becoming a star in her own right. 

Nevertheless, this has an optimistic impact too as it is bringing a change by displaying divergent people from every end of the world. Previously, fame used to be the perquisite of the white men and women, and with occasional showcasing of ethnic groups. One very conspicuous reason behind this being white people hailed from privileged backgrounds and therefore possessed immense favours, which eventually resulted in a prejudiced share of success stories. The internet has scaled up the playing field to a certain degree. Now, anyone possessing a smartphone can stage their talent through social media and gain authentic fanbase regardless of their culture, ethnicity or gender. This previously wouldn’t have happened because of a fixated reluctance emitted from the authorities towards few ethnicities who never received equal chances. 

To conclude, it can be stated that the watch should be at the age at which people achieve fame as it might have developmental side effects.

IELTS Writing Task 2 – Moving to other planets

In the future, people may have to live on other planets. Some think that it is therefore important to spend money researching other planets such as Mars.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Answer:

With the passing of days, humans are perceiving the idea of colonising to other planets. Therefore, some suggest that a partial resource should be spent on the research purposes of livelihood in other planets, according to my opinion we should focus on our present planet.

The advocates of the interplanetary research state a fact that leaving Earth is imminent. This research is established based on the fact that climate change is irreversible and will have doubtless catastrophic jeopardy. Till date, the remote Polar Regions and the animals hailing from fragile ecosystems are already victims of the devastation of the climate. Following this, climate scientists have placed the statement that this destruction will swiftly increase and will approach human lives too. There will be a scarcity of natural resources and a collapse of nature. If all these are authentic, then creating a substitute place where human beings can be evacuated to, needs to be created for the continuation of human survival.

Nonetheless, the most pragmatic approach would be to rescue the planet we presently are living in to safeguard the planet from the doomsday. There would be a need for an immense amount of money, time and resources to colonise even the nearest planet to Earth – Mars. Instead of splurging so much money and resources for an alien planet, the most feasible option is to focus on investing in the Earth’s environment. The government can act out rigid regulations on individuals and private organizations to eliminate carbon emissions while financing clean energy initiatives. Innumerable policymakers have signed international accords which stated to strike a balance between economic development and environmental conservation. These are pragmatic solutions which will maintain an equilibrium in the sacrifices called for and there will be a possibility of actual success too.

To conclude, we can state that colonising other planets is not an option. Saving the current planet Earth by arranging to handle the current problems is the only way out.

IELTS Writing Task 2 – Film or Written Document

It is better to learn the way people lived in the past through films and video records than written documents.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Answer:

Talking about the ancient times, people believe that learning history is best done through written documents while some belief watching video records are more preferred. In my opinion, video records are quite beneficial but when it comes to studying history, written documents hold more value.

People pillaring the idea of video recordings have their points. It is true that any fact when presented in image form, will modify the whole presentation into real-time. For instance, the videos and recordings recorded during the 1960s portray the living style of people and those are advantageous for social anthropologists who can spot their contents. The videos are a great source for portraying how people talker, what products they used, their fashion sense, livelihood and more. Historians generally, to have a better grasp on their subject would sell off anything to get hold of an ancient Greek or Roman film.

Nevertheless, it must be noted that videos are quite limited in number and what goes behind the scenes of the videos are not disclosed, only written documents can show like firsthand notes, memos, letters, and official documents. This can be beautifully portrayed by the four biographies penned by Robert Caro of Lyndon Johnson. The prolific writer poured over thousands of documents which included private dairies, correspondences which stated the law and order that prevailed that time. An observant person will naturally weave the details of the past and produce a narrative that brings out the truth. Now, if we consider video recordings, there are still no repository of this sort which will help in the understanding of any individual to create an account.

To conclude, films will see an elevation in the future too, but written documents will always be celebrated as it holds the evidence that videos don’t.

IELTS Writing Task 2 – Full-time University Students

Full-time university students spend a lot of time studying. Some say they should do other activities too.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Answer:

While certain people consider focused on studying during university days, while others also consider engaging in diversified interests and activities. In my opinion, university days also include extracurricular activities.

The advocators of education can bring out the only learning opportunity for students – university days. An undergraduate student in most of the cases, overburden themselves with student debts to acquire expertise in a given field. They consider that period to be fixated only for studying that subject without any botheration about drudgery at work. They feel devoting that time for studying being free from work will elevate their knowledge level with skills and theories that will prove beneficial during their entire professional life. Few would argue stating that this period should not be impaired with extracurricular activities or engaging in other interests.

Nevertheless, there are endless numbers of students who opted for music or dance or other performing arts unrelated to their field of major but ended up excelling in it. This already proves that outside activities act as a boon to many students. The victory doesn’t only lie intangible rewards but in knowledge and happiness receive from the activities. Engaging in charitable works, university initiative or part-time work may seem to be more preferable to the student than their field of study. Graduates in the present day are noticed to switch to their passion which is majorly different from their course of study and enjoy the same. This is the time when they will look back to their college days and rejuvenate the memories when they were engaged in those outside activities.

To conclude, it can be stated that, universities though is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity but it should also be spent by engaging in other extracurricular activities.

IELTS Writing Task 2 –  Unemployed people

In some countries, governments provide payments for unemployed people.

How does this impact people?

Is this a positive or negative development?

Answer

In many nations, the government pay for the citizens in need by providing unemployment benefits. This has a very positive impact during the difficult times and eradicates poverty in this manner.

Unemployment is a real issue which is driving most of the people hysteric in search of food and resources. The present time is the best example one can provide, the Covid-19 has affected the whole world and there are numerous people suffering from unemployment. In the US, and most other parts of the world millions of employees are jobless, people are living on paychecks provided by the government and without that, they might even be on the verge of losing their home and the mere resources. The government allowance was of extreme help and they persevered through the time while finding a new job. Also, the continuation of the government allowance will help those people find a suitable job for them rather than holding onto the first job that might exploit the influence caused by the global pandemic.

This whole approach has a far-fetching benefit for the whole world. But just like any other concept, this also has a noticeable setback. There are many individuals who would leverage from the tenseness of the situation and stay jobless for a prolonged time period, devouring on the government money. But at the same time, these are rare instances, society always enhances by lifting the needy ones from poverty. Without this help, many individuals will turn to illegitimate activities and many might also choose the path of crime to sustain themselves. Though the most affected segment would be economic as the needy ones without the government money cannot purchase the basic products for food and other necessities, and this will not stimulate the market.

To conclude, unemployment payment is a great measure to create coherency in the economy.