Here is a model answer, as promised, for the Academic IELTS Writing Task 1 example which was posted yesterday:
The line graphs illustrate the movement of share prices for two British companies, Ramsgate Rockets and Broadstairs Brewery. The data comes from the Thanet Stock Exchange and covers the period 1989 to 2008.
The share prices of both companies increased considerably over the twenty years. Ramsgate Rockets’ price soared from 30p to 84p and Broadstairs Brewery’s jumped from 16p to 68p. The most noticeable feature of the graphs, however, is that the Ramsgate Rockets’ price has a strong upward trend throughout the period, whereas that of the Broadstairs Brewery has two very distinct trends.
Until 1996, the Broadstairs company’s share price rose even faster than the Ramsgate firm’s. In mid-1991, the Brewery’s share price overtook the Rockets’. It peaked at 70p in 1996, at which time Ramsgate Rockets’ shares were selling for just 50p.
From 1996 onwards, however, the situation changed dramatically. Broadstairs Brewery shares hovered between 68p and 70p for the next 12 years. Ramsgate Rockets’ share price, by contrast, continued to rise steadily, eventually becoming the more expensive of the two again in 2003.
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