Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Cambridge 13 Test 2 (Bar Graph/Chart)


You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The chart below shows the percentage of households in owned  and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.





SAMPLE ANSWER:
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Given is the bar chart which compares the proportion of families who owned and rented an accommodation in two countries, England and Wales from 1918 to 2011.

Overall, it is immediately apparent that percentage of rented housing in the above two contries declined steadily in the given period. By contrast, the figure for owned accommodation incresed gradually in the same period.

In England and Wales, in 1918, people preferred to live in rented appartments and more than three-fourth housings were a rented one. On the other hand, just above 20 percent of households stayed in their own house in that year. Afterwards, whilst the percentage of rented accommodation experienced a fall, owned one showed a reverse trend and in 1971 it accounted for half of the total accommodation in England and Wales.

In the next four-decade period, there was almost 20 percent decrese and increase for rented and owned accommodation, respectively. So, more and more people were buying their own places . In the next decade, although the figure for tenants climbed up a little to reach just above 33 percent, it was almost twice less than its counterpart.

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