Academic IELTS Task 1 Essay: Line Chart - Crime

Academic IELTS Task 1 Essay: Line Chart – Crime

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This is a high-scoring sample answer for the following Academic IELTS Task 1 essay question: The chart below shows three different crimes and the number of cases committed between 1970 and 2005 in England and Wales. Collocations about crime can be found here. Below, also, is a list of less common vocabulary with definitions. Read the sample answer, then send me your essay in the comments. I will give you a quick score and also some comments if I have time. Why not start today?

IELTS Writing Task 1 Quiz

Academic IELTS Task 1 Essay Sample Answer

line chart
The chart below shows three different crimes and the number of cases committed between 1970 and 2005
in England and Wales. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.

The line chart shows how many instances of car theft, house burgling and street robbery were committed from 1970 to 2005, in units of 200,000.

Overall, it is clear from the chart that apart from a brief spell, car theft was by far the most prevalent crime, and with burglary, showed a steady uptrend before falling back. Street robbery, on the other hand, had much fewer cases but increased towards the end of the 35 year period.

From 1970 to 1990, the theft of cars more than doubled from 0.4 million to 1 million, while over the same time frame burglaries rose steeply to around 0.9 million in 1980 before declining to 0.7 million. Muggings or robberies in the street remained relatively stable over this period.

After 1990, however, the number of car thefts rocketed to 1.6 million in 1995, returning to its original 1990 figure in 2005, whereas house burgling decreased steadily to about 0.5 million in the same year. Over the same 15 years, robbery committed in the street slowly curved upwards to 0.4 million, more than twice its 1990 figure.

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Less Common Vocabulary for this Essay

a brief spell – a short period of time

burglaries – breaking into houses and stealing things, regardless of if someone is in the house or not

prevalent – widespread in a particular area or at a particular time

time frame – a time period

muggings – street robberies, usually with violence

curved upwards – as in a bend higher, not a straight line

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2 thoughts on “Academic IELTS Task 1 Essay: Line Chart – Crime”

  1. This is a good essay Natalia, but would be better if you rectified some basic errors.
    0.9 = correct
    0,9 = incorrect
    Also, in the paragraph detailing street robbery (thievery is a different crime), there are no details.
    Also some grammar errors that you will pick up if you proofread it.
    In my opinion, this is a 7.5

  2. This line chart illustrates how many times three different crimes were commited in England and Wales over a period of 35 years, from 1970 to 2005.

    Overall, we observe that car theft was the most common crime commited while the street robbery was in general a less recurrent crime.

    Firstly, between 1970 and 1975 both car theft and house burgling had a gradual increased in the number of cases. During the following 10 years the first crime significantly increased, to 0,9 million cases but then dropped from 0,9 to 0,6. Meanwhile house robbery continue to rose gradually until 1990 when it dramatically went up to 1,6 million cases. However, in the last years boths crimes steadily decreased.

    On the other hand, the number of cases of street thievery was almost the same until 1995 when it started to rise slightly.

    In conclusion, we can see that the most common crimes are decreasing while the street robbery has started to increased.

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