IELTS Academic Task 1 Writing: Tables

One of the possible infographics you will need to summarize for the IELTS Academic writing test (Task 1) will be in the form of a table. This may be tricky because there is no visual aid to help you see movement, changes, similarities or differences, and so on.
You can approach a table in the same way you would a graph or chart: look for highs, lows, common features, differences, etc.
In this video, I walk you through a table report with a sample and full summary.
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Thanks for these precious advice, can anyone please asses my answer: The table illustrates the percentage of grown people from five countries who attended paid events in preforming arts, museums, cinema and sports in 2012. Overall, the cinema events were the favoralble one in all USA, Canada, France, Germany and the united kingdom speacially in the united states of america in the same year. From the table we can witness that the UK was the most active in term of these four paid events, however, in the cinema events the US and Canada was significantly active, 59.7% and 52.6% respectively. similary, in the sports and performing arts live events, the UK was the highest percentage of adult population but just under France 41.9% in 2012. In term of museum, France had also possessed the highest percentage of 39.1%, also from the table we can infer that Germany was not the less percentage along with Canada. Facts: 1- I wrote under the real time of the exam (20 mins). 2- I didn’t change anything, even the spelling mistakes and grammar. I just need advice what to work with Thanks all

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Thank you for your fantastic channel. But the question is, will I write (do not/did not) while the performing arts do not show... as the year was 2012?

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Sir a question! Is it correct to use present simple for a data which is for the past- in this case 2012. You've used present tense in the body paragraphs. Please reply

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The given table illustrates the proportions of adults who paid to attend various events of entertainment in five different countries. On the whole, it is clear that the proportions of cinema attendance is way higher than other form of amusement, whereas museums and galleries are considered the lowest particularly in North America. With regards to North American countries, The American and Canadian adults scored the highest amount of percentages in cinema attendance. Figures are accounted for 59.7% and 52.6% percent respectively. In a stark contrast, the events of museum and gallery are not highly popular among the adults of the said nations, USA represents around one fifth, whereas Canada makes up close to sixteen percent of the total attendance. As far as art performance and sports are concerned, the percentages of both North American and European countries are relatively close to each other. Looking at the figures of art specifically, the proportions are ranging between (and stopwatch started ticking indicating the conclusion of the time).

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Sir how to explain those overall in which both trends show downward or upward trend at the same time

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thanks for the amazing explanations, I've been watching your videos since 2018 when I took my first IELTS test and obtained 6. I just have one question, you started the body paragraph 1 with "Overall, movies were the most...." where you used past tense because the study was made in 2012, while in body paragraph 2 you used present tense such as "arts do not show, it is different, doubles" so I'm confused which tense should I use :/

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I have one question! Do we have to report all the data? (percentage in this task) all of the percentages? of each country?

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Can you explain to me as to why you chose to group Performace Arts + Museums/galleries and Cinema + Sports together? I'm having a hard time understanding how to group given figures with each other. Please please sir, I need your guidence!

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Good day mr i am sorry for a intrudupting you i am facing with difficulties with table if ther is one significant higher result in table then and other what i should do i should copmare it again and agin

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Thank you sir.But I have a confusion .When I use past or present form of verb in this writing section?Can you explain please? Sometimes I see present form and sometimes past form are used in writing section.

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In the overview u used past tense, but in body paragraph u used present tense, will it be correct if anyone use also past tense in the body paragraph. Waiting for Ur kind response

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Why the body paragraphs are in present tense?is it correct?

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Can we add the highest & lowest information in overview paragraph?

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May I know why you use V1 in Body paragraph? Because there is a time signal which is 2012. Thanks

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Is it okay to write in simple present even if the time is in the past?

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You've made a lot of teaching contributions to IELTS exam takers. Adam. i appreciate that however, i have a question: may you use wrong tense? it should have been past simple tense

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Sorry, if the table is describing things that happened in the past, should I use present tense or past tense to complete the task?

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Can you explain why you used present simple tense in this paragraph while this survey was conducted in 2012 ?thanks

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Is it sama to write in every country.because some people say each country have their own structure

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Is there a reason why the body 1 is not in the past tense?

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Thanks Adam , this is really helpful. But I have a question, you have used past simple in the intro, while you have used present simple in the body paragraph. And the question was in the he past Is it ok???

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The link for other table is not working?

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Someone please explain, how can i compare in task 1, is it Between countries or between percentage?

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My question is why everything is in present tense (as the data is for 2012)?

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Sir please tell me.. In task 1 we only make bodyparagraph 1.. Rather than 2

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According to the table, sport is not the least popular in Europe, because 31.1% of the UK is the highest in this category and Germany is the third highest in doing sport, so I don't think it is the least popular in European countries. Is there any alternative way to write an overview?

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I wonder why use present tenses in the body paragraphs?

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Please, help me to understand why you use simple present tense in the body paragraphs, while the task information is 2012.

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Could someone explain why there is a comma before respectively?