It is noticeable that levels of poverty were higher for single people than for couples, and people with children were more likely to be poor than those without. Moreover, one of the lower proportions is single aged person with 6%. What about referring to the numbers in categories, not only percentages? Sam | | IELTS Speaking Part 3: sports . Your comparison confuses 2 variables because you compared 'couples' with 'singles' AND 'children' with 'no children' in the same comparison. osman | I find your site really useful for me as well as your book :) In addition, couple with children family made up more than half of total people living in poverty. Simon | But for me, levels describe how poor they are and not the proportion of poor people in each category. Here's my band 9 essay following the steps in last week's lesson: The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002. Can you explain for me? Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 01:46. Posted by: In your last paragraph, you used "classed" instead of "classified". Monday, October 24, 2011 at 23:34. You can't really say that they were the poorest. Most popular family were sole parent over 2million in poverty and aged people were in significant amount 6%and 4% for single aged and couple aged people. are these sentences correct? Monday, November 21, 2011 at 03:46. Sunday, October 05, 2014 at 20:06. According to the data of table, only 11% Australians or 1.8 million people were living in poverty in 1999. Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 08:27. IELTS Reading: look for keywords | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 18:24. 21% of sole parent were living in poverty line. jharna mony | Posted by: The other three types of families had higher poverty ratio than 11%. Greetings from Uzbekistan! Simon | Posted by: Thank you, Posted by: Ed | Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 11:44. The table gives information about poverty rates among six types of household in Australia in the year 1999. i hope u will reply. Cecilia Nguyen | Isn't that table precise and rates are unchangeable. You used " levels of poverty " in your report. Posted by: Do you provide any general writing guidelines on your website? To sum up ,it is not a fair statement to say museums and art galleries would perish with the advancement of technology. Thank you very much. Posted by: However, the figure for parent with children were lower at 12%. Amir | The next thing to be considered is that the levels of poverty were lower for the types of aged people (6% and 4%) and people without children (7%) than the rest of family types. Plz, Posted by: Posted by: give me some advice, In regard to single people, 6% or 54,000 people was the percentage of single aged person in Australia. The other feature is 7% or 211,000 couple who live in without children. Hi Felora, 1. Among six specific kinds of families, three of them had lower figures. The table below shows changes in the numbers of residents cycling to work in different areas of the UK between 2001 and 2011. Overall, 11% of Australians, or 1,837,000 people, were living in poverty in 1999. you wrote in this website that it is good to write task 1 either present simple tense or past simple tense(as per Question) or passive(for process). Only 11% Australian, or 1,837,000 people, were living in poverty in 1999.The lowest proportion is aged couple with 4%, less than three times couple with children, about 12%. zhangyan | Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 11:50. MUSEUMS AND ART GALLARIES WILL DISSAPEAR DUE TO TECHNOLOGY.AGREE? You can use 'for' or 'among' for all of them. Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 13:07, I'm comparing like this: i need advice for task 2 Simon | Can you use : Simon | IELTS Writing Task 1: table essay Here's my full essay, which follows the plan in last week's lesson. what i am missin sir please help!! The table compares the six networks in terms of their age, size and the number of people who use them each year. It is possible to use "just over" with a very high number (e.g. nghiemkhoaitay | can you tell me the mine steps for writing task 1 (process diagram essay) because I have a problem with this kind of essay. Most of the popular museums and art galleries are now highly treated with state of art facilities that act as a catalyst for creating hunger for the ancient advocacy towards human civilization. I do not understand that why ''couple with children'' written is parents living a partner ,because I search ''partner '' it means (the person that you are married to or having a sexual relationship with ) Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 12:57. Due to the higher demand for the museums and art galleries it is quite understandable that vitality of this type of places stay longer as long as technology is play a crucial role in conservation of our ancient heritage. Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 17:55, Hi Simon, Single with no children ranked the second highest, at 19%. Posted by: The pattern refers to the higher percentages of poverty for single people than for couples - I mentioned that in the first sentence of paragraph 4. - "Among" is fine, but don't use "in", Posted by: please can you tell me that what score I will get for it. I have a small question. The table describes the figure for unsimiliar types of families living in poorness in Australia in 1999. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. Friday, August 31, 2012 at 11:56. i wonder why you used "likely to be" in this essay. In the sentence, "just" and "only" have similar meaning, but you used "whereas" to connect them. Simon | Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 11:30, http://ielts-simon.com/ielts-help-and-english-pr/2010/07/ielts-writing-task-1-you-dont-need-a-conclusion.html, Posted by: Simon | - couple no children = 7%. Could I use stood at in tables? don't try to explain why fewer old people were poor). 21% of sole parent family lived in poverty, which is the highest. The table shows percentages of consumer expenditure for three categories of products and services in five By the way, thanks for your website. Overall, 11% of Australians, or 1,837,000 people, were living in poverty in 1999. Hi Simon, It's more accurate to say that there was a higher proportion of poor families in the 'single parent' category. Cheers, Posted by: Secondly , funds from states and non- government -organizations are likely to poured into this field for the maintenance of resources which account for well equipped friendly environment for the entertainment and education. the proportion of poverty was 21% IN single parents. Pham Quynh Hoa | Hi, Simon Posted by: the figures for poverty were highest FOR single parents,at 21% This table illustrates the different types of households in terms of the percentage of people living in poverty in Australia in 1999. Posted by: Is that all right for not writing a conclusion? Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 19:58. Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 21:04, Posted by: The highest percentage is sole parents with 21% and single without children ranked the second highest percentage, at 19%. Som | 6% poor, 94% not poor), so we can say that "old people were less likely to be poor" because the probability of finding a poor person in that group was lower. benjamin | This is awesome essay. That use of 'living' is not past continuous. You could also use the plural 'partners'. Overall,we can easily enumarte that sole parent occupied high amount just over a fifth where as aged people were least in bottom of priority .More likely to be poorer,6% and 4% for single aged person and aged couple respectively. Posted by: Friday, October 12, 2012 at 11:35, hi, Simon Monday, August 29, 2011 at 03:15. Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 06:01, http://ielts-simon.com/ielts-help-and-english-pr/2011/09/ielts-writing-task-1-line-graphs.html. Posted by: Dear Simon , Posted by: deepika | I have just practiced this task and here is my essay. It is really helpful, Posted by: Linh Ha | Simon | IELTS Writing Task 1: full essay The essay below is 151 words long. I'm afraid this site is only for the academic test. Friday, December 16, 2011 at 23:51. Monday, October 24, 2011 at 22:09. Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 00:50. how can you say the "parents living with a partner" in the third paragraph? It is clear that families with one parent were the poorest ,while aged couples constituted the least proportion of people who lived in poverty in Australia during the same year. It is noticeable that there were nearly two million people or 11 % of Australian population living in poverty in 1999. can i analyze this question by this way? same pattern with which category of people? Posted by: Loannie | Friday, September 17, 2010 at 13:38. The other feature is couple who live without children with 7% or 211 thousands. The number of couple with no children and single aged person were 7% and 6% respectively, the figure for aged couple family stood at 4%. Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 12:08. can I say that "people with children were likely to be poorer than those without." Monday, March 04, 2013 at 10:52. And why in your essay you used "likely to" when all the figure was given. Simon | Sorry about that. Posted by Simon in IELTS Writing Task 1 | Permalink. samer | Posted by: The table compares the numbers of people who cycled to work in twelve areas of the UK in the years 2001 and 2011. Posted by: Chiao | Is it ok to use the past cont ,because you always advise using the past simple? It is clear that sole parent family had the highest proportion of poverty, while the aged couple family had the lowest. Simon | Posted by: It's part of the noun phrase, not the main verb. Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 14:39, Posted by: Simon | Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 07:46. Monday, November 21, 2011 at 11:52. hi simon thank you. Friday, August 31, 2012 at 09:33, thank you so much Simon, i will bother you a lot in the next two month :) i wish you all the best, Posted by: Posted by: Trang | Posted by: Aged people were the least likely to be poor, with poverty levels of 6% and 4% for single aged people and aged couples respectively. thank you so much for this. what if we discuss both the aspects of the topic (in faour and against) and give the opinion in last concluding paragraph only?? Is it correct to use levels instead of percentage or proportion? thanks in advance, Posted by: please help me Simon, Posted by: Should I write "Australian poor families" or "poor Australian families"? I've tried to make it as simple as possible, but it's still good enough to get a band 9. Simon | Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 16:30, Hi Simon, The given table highlight that the porpotion of various division of families lifestyle in scarcity of money in Asutrila in 1999.over,the entire time period. Thanks a lot for your sincere help. what i do if i don't know what the topic about, Posted by: The table gives breakdown about the percentage of people who are involved in six types of household in Australia in the year 1999. Also, write 'lowest proportion' rather than 'least'. Loannie. It is noticeable that the figure for single group is considerable higher than couple group about the percentage of people who live in poor condition in Australia. Amir | Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 09:28, the table represents the percentage of seven types of families living in poverty in Australia in1999, Posted by: This sentence in fouth paragraph :whereas only 12% of parents living with a partner were classed as poor. Hi Simon, Thanks for your advice, your encouragement and your helpful essay example :) Cheers! Both are equally good. simran | Posted by: Your misunderstanding relates to the use of "just" - I wrote "just over", which means "a bit more than" rather than "only". Posted by: Eg : "people with children were more likely to be poor than those without", Posted by: emre | The table gives information about poverty rates among six types of household in Australia in the year 1999. Posted by: Posted by: Poverty rates were considerably lower among elderly people. thank for your help. Is it rt to say 12% of couples with children were poor .this figure was considerably high compared to number of couples who had no children .The later stood at 7%. Posted by: many thanks, Posted by: I used "less likely to be poor" to mean the same as "the proportion of poor people was smaller". Which band score could it get ? In modern era ,museums and art galleries has gained much popularity due to the constant attention of media and advanced telecommunication facilities supported by the innovation of science and technology.I completely disagree with the idea that disappearance of outstanding museums and art galleries owing to high technical assistance . BiS | Moka | Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 10:25, Posted by: The number of couple with children was 12%. I would think "whereas" is used as "but". rosie | Posted by: Remember, in each family type, the rest of the people were NOT poor (e.g. The past simple 'lived' would be ok, but 'were living' seems a bit better in this case. If we take a random single aged person, he or she is less likely to be poor than a random sole parent. A good illustration of this .the places which historically prominent and geologically isolated in past days are now overcrowded with local and international tourists. Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 05:48. Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 16:03, In task 1 writing, we should keep it objective, impersonal. Wednesday, December 04, 2013 at 11:52. sohaib | hope you will reply it. it will be a great help for me if u do. In general, 11% of all Australian households lived under the poverty line in 1999. I think living below the poverty line and living in poverty are different. The website is really very interesting. zillur rahman | Friday, May 13, 2016 at 17:02. Sunday, July 07, 2013 at 13:37, I felt weird that "Just over one fifth of single parents were living in poverty, whereas only 12% of parents living with a partner were classed as poor.". I thought about using 'classified' but I felt that 'classed' sounded a bit less scientific. Firstly ,I am convinced that arm-chair tourism is a one of direct effect of latest technology which has dominated entire tourist industry at an exponential height in recent years. Main Thank you! But you can say "in the single parent group/category". sohaib | Bunyodjon | The lowest proportion is aged couple with 4% which of less than 3 times couple with children, about 12%. Friday, August 26, 2011 at 11:10. Posted by: I think classified is more common than classed. pratikshya | Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 11:15, Hi Simon Friday, September 14, 2012 at 16:47. emre | where I can find the original meaning in the table? Just over one fifth of single parents were living in poverty, whereas only 12% of parents living with a partner were classed as poor. shraddha khanal | IELTS Writing Task 1: 'table' essay. Not everyone in each family type is poor, only the percentage shown. Friday, April 24, 2015 at 00:57, Hi Simon,you write:" 19% of single people were living below the poverty line". what does the sentence ' the same pattern can be seen for the people with no children' stands for in your fourth paragraph. Posted by: Is there any rationale behind this? Percentage of national consumer expenditure by category - 2002. Simon | Posted by: IELTS Writing Task 1: 'table' essay. Keep it objective in the sense that you shouldn't give subjective opinions about the reasons behind the figures (e.g. Posted by: The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999. Friday, August 26, 2011 at 15:13, Just check your singulars and plurals (e.g. just over 99% - this doesn't mean "only 99%"). The table below gives information about the underground railway systems in six cities. Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 14:52, Hi Simon, By contrast, the figure for sole parent and single without children are almost treble with 21% and 19% respectively. the percentage of poverty was 21% IN single parents. hi,simon It is clear that the three oldest underground Likewise couple with children were above a tenth living in poverty line.In the same way without children were blow a tenth and small proportion 19% and 7% for single and couple of no children like to be poor in end 1999 in Austrila. Posted by: - "the figure of couples" instead of "the figure for couples" thanh | Pham Quynh Hoa | Monday, August 29, 2011 at 12:01, Posted by: On another day I might have chosen 'classified'. The tables illustrates the percentage of six different family types who were in poor living condition in Australia at the year end of the Twentieth century. i had tested in task one and the question was about table for three period 2000,2011,2020 with three items but i got confused about the tense and how should i use , please advise and could you please post for us an example like that, Posted by: Could I say in the second paragraph, I wrote "just over one fifth" referring to the 21%, and I think it's fine to contrast 21% with 12% because it's quite a significant difference. Is this good or not? By creating lively pictures on screens by means of sophisticated artificial knowledge, there is a mounting tendency among people to visit those vibrant places In reality .We can take into consideration that the idea of cultivation of art and history is seems to be very easy with modern participation of technology. In conclusion, the table basically supposed that the group of single adult and sole parent were more possible to live in a destitute life than those other cases. 21% of parents), Posted by: You wrote PARENTS LIVING WITH A PARTNER,why didn't we say PARENTS LIVING WITH PARTNERS. Full essay (band 9): The table shows data about the underground rail networks in six major cities. Simon | Posted by: And i donot understand why you used " claased as poor" because I think "as" usually follows by a noun? Posted by: In the exam, if you're not sure, use past simple.