Exercise # 14 - IELTS Hi there! Could someone help me out with reviewing this writing, please? I would truly aprecciate your comments and suggestions on it. Thanks in advance. The table describes the percentages of children attendance in four secondary schools from 2000 to 2009. Overall, the attendance dramatically dropped in three of the four schools over the period considered, whereas the remaining school steadily increased throughout the same time frame. To begin with, in 2000, Voluntary-Controlled schools displayed the greatest percentages of attendance at just over half of total. In contrast, Specialist and Community schools accounted for the lowest rates at 12% each for that year. However, this situation partially changed over the following next five years. Thus, in 2005, Voluntary-Controlled schools steeply plummeted just around 15% to finally stand at 38%. These schools remained as the first type of the group of schools though its considerable decrease. Specialist schools slightly went down to stay almost constant at 11%. Community schools, on the contrary, gradually rose to nearly triple its original value, at 32%. To conclude, the trends detailed earlier remained almost the same by 2009. Specialist schools fell down to finish at 10%. Then, Grammar and Voluntary-Controlled schools considerably plunged reaching 12% and 20%, respectively. Finally, Community schools significantly rocketed exposing a four-fold jump compared to its initial value by 2000.

Exercise # 13 - IELTS Hello everybody? Could someone check my essay for any mistakes or errors in writing, please? I haven't attached the map because I don't have it on hand. The map outlines the two sites, S1 and S2, where a new shopping mall might be constructed in the city of Brandfield. Overall, the site S1 is located in the northerrn part of the city between the river and the railway, whereas the other site, S2, is placed in the south of Branfield next to the railway and road areas. In both cases, they are fairly near the city centre. As for the site 1, it is in the middle of the Housing Estate and the city centre. Besides, its area seems to be delimited by the intersection of the river, the road and the railway. Being fairly close to the road and the railway could bring great advantages such as having lots of people passing by there. In addition, the river can appeal to the visitors as it could offer a stunning landscape. With regards as the site 2, it is in the opposite direction concerning the first one. Similarly, the road and the railway run over there, so that could report the same benefits as for the site 1. However, this location is characterized by to the closeness to the Industrial Estate. Therefore, this may mean an important source of visitors guaranteed all along the year. To wrap up, both locations exhibit positive aspects that come from their closeness to strategic points in the city of Brandfield despite being proposed in opposite places by the city planners.

Exercise # 12 - IELTS Hello everybody! Could someone check my essay for grammar and spelling, please? I haven't attached the flow chart at this time because I didn't have it on hand. Thanks in advance! The flow chart outlines the different stages involved in the natural gas production and how it is distributed. In brief, what can be seen is the way on which the gas is obtain from several sources, its distinct levels of storage and its distribution to the retail customer. To begin with, there are basically three sources of obtaining gas. Firstly, the gas wells are one of the ways to get it, involving this case in particular, a gas plant. Secondly, the oil wells turn to be another possible form to extract gas. A refinery is mainly utilised in that activity. Thirdly, importing might be another significant input of gas. Whatever is the source used, the gas is next kept in a main underground storage to be then pipelined towards to a regional container on which is saved. Subsequently, the following step refers to the transportation of it by either 40,000 litre tankers trucks or 24,000 litres wagones train. The gas is, thus, storaged in a retail container with a capacity of 120,000 litres. To wrap up, and as for the last stage of the process, the gast kept in the retail storage is next moved to the retail customer by means of 12,000 litre delivery trucks.

Exercise # 11 - IELTS Hello there! Could everyone help me out with correcting this writing, please? I haven't attached the diagram in this case because I haven't on hand. Thank you in advance. The diagram outlines the different stages involved in the production of bricks for the building sector. Overall, the process comprises sevens steps, beginning with the digging up of the clay and culminating with the brick delivery. To begin with, the first stage generates the raw material, by digging up the clay, which is placed onto a metal grid. The clay is broken up into smaller pieces that are transporting next to the subsequent step with the help of a roller. Then, sand and water are added to those pieces to manufacture the brick through either a wire culter or a mould. The following stage consists of putting the bricks into an oven to be dried for a period of 24-48 hrs. Later, dried bricks are located into a kiln to be exposed at two instances of 'cooking'. Firstly, bricks are disposed at a moderate temperature ranging from 200º C to 980º C and then at higher temperatures between 870º C and 1300º C. Next, the bricks are sent to a cooling chamber for 48-72 hrs. Finally, bricks are packaged to be delivered to whom corresponds.

Exercise # 10 - IELTS Hi there! Could you check this essay, please? I haven't attached the graph at this time. Hope my writing is clear and makes sense. Thanks in advance. The line graph illustrates changes in australian teenagers consumption of fast food between 1975 and 2000. Overall, there seems to have been a gradually increase in the amount of pizza and hamburguers consumed over time, although there was a steadily decrease in quantity of fish and chips eaten during the same period of time. In detail, pizza and hamburguers consumption began at around five times eaten per year in 1975, but these times went up differently in the 15-years left. Thereby, the amount of pizza gradually rose to approximately 80% in 1995 and then it stayed constant from that year and onward until the end of the time frame. The quantity of hamburguers increased more quickly and strongly as that of pizza consumption until 1985, but it started to go up at a lower rate from that year to 2000. Therefore, hamburguers consumption sunged 20 times over time considerably overtaking of that of pizza consumption. With regard to the amount of fish and chips, its behavior differed in comparison to the rest of types of fast food. Thus, starting at a figure of 100 times and then it dramatically fell to a bottom at 85% in 1980. Next, it recovered over the folllowing five years to reach a quantity of 95%, but definitely fell back to finish at around 40%. There was a considerable, but erratic decrease of this type of fat food consisting of 60% throughout 25 years.

Exercise # 9 - IELTS Hello everybody! Would you mind helping me with this writing checking for grammar and spelling, please? In case you want to suggest any recommendation, feel free to do it. Thanks in advance. PS: I've attached the graph I've based my essay on. The bar chart displays five destinations where British people emigrated from 2004 to 2007. In brief, Australia was the top five country chosen by British to go, whereas the rest of the countries remained by far behind of it over the time frame considered. In detail, Australia received between approximately 40 and 50 thousand of people from Britain over time, reaching a peak at around 50 thousand of inmigrants by 2006. These figures were considerably greater to those of the others countries. Spain was the only country closer to those quantities of people, although the amount of British inmigrants to this country ranged from 28 to 35 thousand. In contrast, New Zealand and the USA stayed among the countries less prefereable with levels fluctuating between 18 and 23 thousand. On the other hand, British inmigrant seem to have fallen throughout the time frame considered. This is evidenced, for example, in 2007, when there was a clear decrease of people in all of the countries: 9% in Australia, 7% in France, 5% in Spain, 4% in the USA and 2% in New Zealand. However, this pattern didn't remain the same for the rest of the years. For instance, in 2005, the inmigrants slightly dropped in most of the countries, ranging between 5% and 2%, except in France and Spain, which displayed the opposite behaviour, rising 10% and 2%, respectively.

Exercise # 8 - IELTS Hello everybody! Could someone help me with this writing checking for grammar and spelling, please? Any suggestion you would like to add or comment, feel free to do it. Thanks in advance! PS: I've attached the graph I've based my essay on. The bar chart illustrates how Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from IT and Services Industries (or Industry?) in the UK evolved along (or over?) the period between 1992 and 2000. Overall, GDP came from both IT and Service Industry steadily went up, although it was apparent that the one produced by the IT Industry did it at a greater rate in comparison to that of service industry. Looking closer to the graph, at the beginning of the period, in 1992, the IT industry component accounted for just about 6%, however, it represented 15% by the year 2000. Therefore, that GDP item experienced a twofold jump in only 8-year period. Similarly, service industry, on its side, followed a pattern very closely to that of the IT, although at lower levels of rise. Thereby, that component started representing only 4% of GDP by 1992 to finally reach just about 8% in 2000. As a result, it also displayed an increase of twice between 1992 and 2000, but at a lower degrees, in terms of percentages, compared to the IT Industry. Finally, there seem to have had a much greater gap between the two components of GDP from 1996 and onwards. While the difference between IT and service industry fell within approximately 2% between 1992 and 1996, it gradually rose from nearly 4% in 1996 and went up around 7% by 2000.

Exercise # 7 - IELTS Hello everybody! Could someone help me with this writing checking for grammar and spelling, please? Any suggestion you would like to add or comment, feel free to do it. Thanks in advance! PS: I've attached the graph I've based my essay on. The bar chart displays how the patterns of transport use (or 'usage'?) in an European city were changing along (or over?) the period from 1960 to 2000. Overall, the use of car dramatically increased in comparison to the rest of the means of transport during the time frame considered. To start off, the car use was the least transport mode used by 1960 with only around 7% of total travellers. Interestingly though, car use steadily and strongly grew to finally reach about 37% of the population by 2000. Therefore, there was more than a fivefold increase during a 40-year period. In clear contrast to the car use, biking and walking followed a decreasing pattern throughout time. On the side of bike use, it rose a peak of approximately 25% by 1960, but then it steeply fell to its lowest rate at 7% in 2000. Meanwhile, walking also dropped from a peak of about 35% in 1960 to just under 7% by the end of the time frame. It represented a fall of nearly five times in only 40 years time. To wrap up, the pattern of bus use exhibited an uneven (or erratic?) behavior by beginning at around 18%, gradually rising to 26%, and finally plunging to stand at only 16%, that is, a slightly less than its original figure at the start of the period.

Exercise # 6 - IELTS Hello, there! Could someone help me with correcting these paragraphs, please? Thanks in advance. PS: I haven't attached the line chart because I don't have it on hand. The pie chart illustrates the average spending on mobile phone and residential phone services by year from 2001 to 2010. Generally speaking, expenditures on cell phone gadually increased over time, whereas annual costs on residential phone services steadily dropped throughout the decade considered. In 2001, spending on cell phones services began by approximately $200, while disbursement on residential phone services started by a larger amount of around $700. Over the next five years, expenditures on mobile phone rose to, in a regular manner, just under $600 by the year 2006. Oppositively, costs on residential phone per year sharply plunged up to reach a figure close to $550 in 2006. Turning to the rest of the period, that is, from 2006 to 2010, cell phone services overtook residential phone ones. From 2006 and on, spending on cell phone dramatically went up to just over $700 at the end of period. Meanwhile, disbursement on residential steeply decreased up to reach an amount that rounds $400.