Writing Task 1 Sample 1

Writing Task 1 - Sample 1: Line graph + Bar chart
Topic:

The line graph, combined with bar chart, reveals some information about UK
tourism activities from 1979 to 1999. In general, the number of visits abroad by
UK citizens well exceeded the incoming visits by overseas residents.
From just 10 million in 1979, the incoming visits to UK steadily increased to 12
million in 1985. Ten years later, it went up quickly to double that number in 1995


before falling back to a slow growth rate during next 5 years. In the meantime,
outcoming visits rose considerably from 12 million in 1979 to 20 million just
before 1985, then they grew dramatically to over 50 million in 1999, nearly
doubling the incoming figure at that time.
Among five countries, UK citizens really enjoyed visiting France when there were
11 million visits during 1999. With 2 million fewer, Spain appeared to be the
second best choice for UK tourists, while the USA, Greece and Turkey all attracted
lower than 4 million UK visitors. Turkey seemed the less attractive tourism
destination with 2.5 million UK visitors only in that year.
To conclude, the charts may well reflect the boom of UK outcoming visits during
the period from 1985 to 1999 and clearly the favourite destinations of UK residents
at that time were France and Spain.