Academic IELTS Task 1 essay

Academic IELTS Task 1 Essay: Pie Charts – Income and Expenditure

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This is a high-scoring sample answer for the following Academic IELTS Task 1 essay question: The two pie charts show the revenue sources and expenditures of a children’s charity in the USA in one year. Collocations about business 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

The pie charts show the revenue sources and expenditures of a children’s charity in the USA in one year
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where
relevant.

The two pie charts depict where the income of an American children’s charity comes from and the expenditure that charity incurs.

Overall, the vast majority of its revenue comes from donated food, while almost the entire amount of the expenditure is spent on program services.

In its entirety, this American children’s charity has revenue of $53,561,580. The food donated is by far the largest income source at 86.6%, more than six times as much as the other sources. These are contributions from the community at 10.4%, with another 2.2% of revenue from the program and the remaining 0.9% from various sources such as investment income and government grants.

As for this charity’s expenditure, as a whole it is $53,224,896. Almost all of this is spent on program services (95.8%) with the residual 4.2% split between fundraising (2.6%) and management and general expenses (1.6%). Taking the annual profit as the difference between the revenue and expenditure, it leaves an annual profit of over $337,000.

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Less Common Vocabulary for this Essay

incur – become subject to (something unwelcome or unpleasant) as a result of one’s own behaviour or actions:

donated – to give (money or goods) for a good cause, for example to a charity (past)

in its entirety – as a whole; completely

by far the largest …. – the largest is much much bigger than the next

government grants – a financial award given by a federal, state, or local government

as a whole – as a single unit and not as separate parts; in general:

residual – remaining after the greater part or quantity has gone:

annual – occurring once every year

Even more vocabulary on business is available here.

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