Thursday 7 April 2016

Sample 010 - IELTS task 1 - The cinema viewing figures for films by country, in millions

The table below shows the cinema viewing figures for films by country, in millions. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.



Sample Answer -

The table represents the data on the number of people who view movies in four different countries namely India, Ireland, New Zealand and Japan for a given period of time.

To begin with, it can be clearly observed from the given table that India had the highest cinema viewing figures for action movies with 08 million people opting to watch this genre. It was followed closely by Ireland, New Zealand and Japan in decreasing order with around 7.6 million, 7.2 million and 7.1 million viewers respectively. Furthermore, India also held the maximum viewership for both romantic and comedy films with 7.5 million and 6.5 million people watching it. While Ireland held an all time low number of people opting to watch romantic movies with 3.8 million; a minimal number of mere 3.9 million people preferred to watch comedy movies in New Zealand. However, New Zealand and Japan had an equal number of audiences for the romance genre with 4.5 million people while the second largest viewership for comedy movies was in Ireland with 5.5 million.

On the other hand, India had the second least number of people watching horror movies with only 2.5 million along with Japan having an all time low value of nearly 2.2 million in the same category. Although, Ireland had the maximum viewership for horror genre with 6.4 million. To add on, it can also be noticed that action movies were the most preferred category with 29.9 million viewers followed by romance [20.3 million] and comedy with 19.9 million viewers. Horror, however was the least opted category among all with only 15.8 million viewers opting to see it.

Thus to conclude, India had the largest cinema viewing figures for films with 24.5 million people while the minimum number of people watching movies are in Japan with 17.8 million. Ireland with 23.3 million viewers followed closely behind India, while New Zealand held the third highest viewership numbers with 20.3 million people.


 (This model answer can be followed as an example of a very good answer. However, please note that this is just one example out of many possible approaches.)

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