IELTS Academic writing task 1: 3° Instructions: The graph below compares the number of visits to two new music sites on the web. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below. (150 word as a minimum, in 20 minutes) Here is my answer: ------- The graph shows the number of visits of two new music websites, recorded in a 15 days timespan. Music Choice website started the first day with 40000 visitors and fluctuated, after a little peak of 60000 visits in the third day, between 20000 and 40000 till the eleventh day.In the day 12 the number of visits rocketed to 120000. In the following two days the website was still frequented more or less at the same level, but the 15th day the number of visitors dropped to less than 80000. Pop Parade website, instead, started the first day with a much higher number of visitors (120000) and then, from the third day, began to loose visitors. The lowest result was reached the seventh day, with less than 40000 visits. The number of visits remained low for other two days then it rose fastly, eaching a peak of 150000 on the 11th day. The following day the number of visitors slipped back to about 80000 and in the 14th day soared to over 160000, plateauing at 170000 in the last day. If we compare the two lines we can conclude that Pop Parade gained more visits than Music Choice in most of the days (13 over 15). ------------------ After I wrote this answer, I had a look at the sample answer and I realized it was far better than mine. It was more focused on comparisons and, even if there was no explicit request in the instructions, I think I should have written something like that. Instead I tried to use some new verbs, as varying the language is important. Thank you! Bye!