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The graph below shows relative price changes for fresh fruits and vegetables, sugars and sweets, and carbonated drinks between 1978 and 2009.

11/9/2019

The graph below shows relative price changes for fresh fruits and vegetables, sugars and sweets, and carbonated drinks between 1978 and 2009.

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

Write at least 150 words.

The line graph represents a comparative change in price among food items like fresh fruits and vegetables, sugar and sweets and carbonated drinks over the span of 30 years from 1979 to 2009. Overall, all the food items began from the same price point in 1979 but the price of fresh fruit and vegetables experienced the highest growth during the period whereas the price of carbonated drinks was the lowest among all.

Firstly, after beginning from just above 50 taka, the price of fresh fruit and vegetables reached 100 taka in 1983. It then experienced a sudden fall in price between 1983-1985 and after that it surpassed all other foods’ price. In 2009, it reached over 300 taka after having random fluctuations and staying well above the consumer price index.
On the other hand,the price of suger and sweets as well as carbonated drinks stayed with that of fresh fruits and vegetables till 1985. After that both of them fall under the consumer price index but steadily increased to the end of the period. Finally, Sugerand sweet and carbonated finished with a price of nearly 200 and just above 150 taka respectively which was below the consumer price index.

Feedback score: 7.5

Sample: 2

The line graph presents how the price of fresh fruits and vegetables, sugars and sweets, and carbonated drinks changed over 40 years time period starting from 1978 to 2009.

From the graph it is clear that prices of each of these foods followed an upward trend over this mentioned time period. Initially, price of fresh fruits and vegetables, sugars and sweets, and carbonated drinks were almost same in 1978. But prices of these products went up gradually as the time increased. Fresh fruits and vegetables became the most costly product among the above mentioned products and followed an upward trend with some fluctuations.

Furthermore, price of sweet products and drinks also followed an increasing pattern with less fluctuation compared to that of fresh fruits and vegetables. However, price of carbonated drinks

did not change much from the year 1990 to 2000. After being almost a fixed price for a decade, the price began to increase. The consumer price index also followed an upward trend over four decades.

Time: 23 min
Feedback score: 8/ nice

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The graph below shows the pollution levels in London between 1600 and 2000.

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You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The graph below shows the pollution levels in London between 1600 and 2000.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.

The line graph depicts a comparison of amount of pollution caused by Sulphur dioxide and Smoke in London from the years 1600 to 2000.

Overall, Sulphur dioxide is the one that consitantly had higher pollution level than Smoke over the period of 400 years.

To begin with,Sulphur dioxide started with just above zero pollution level in 1600 and it continued to rise for the next fifty years. In between 1650 to 1700, it experienced a sudden fall in pollution level after reaching near 750 micrograms per cubic metre. But after that, it again had a sharp increase and crossed the 750 micrograms per cubic metre mark and the pollution level again started dropping until 1750.

After 1750, it maintained a steady level for almost for the next 50 years. Just a few years before 1800, it again started rising and crossed the 750 mark reaching close to the 1000 micrograms per cubic metre level between 1800-1850. After 1850, the pollution level underwent through some fluctuations and right before the start of the 20th century, it started decreasing. For the next 100 years, pollution level dropped continuously reaching nearly zero level in 2000.

On the other hand, the pollution level of smoke climbed continuously higher from nearly zero level for the next 300 years after 1600 although having random fluctuations during the period 1700-1750 and 1850-1900. Surprisingly, like Sulpher dioxide the pollution level due to Smoke began to reduce at the same time when the Sulpher dioxide’s pollution started falling. The pollution level reached nearly zero in 2000 just asSulpherdioxide after experiencing fluctuations during the period.

Feedback score: 7+

Sample: 2

The line graph shows the amount of air pollution caused from Sulphur dioxide and smoke in London up to 400 years starting from the year 1600.

There are two different lines indicating the level of pollution in terms of the weight of both Sulphur dioxide and smoke in micrograms per cubic meter. The upper line in the graph indicates that in the year 1600, amount of sulphur dioxide in the air was greater than smoke. Amount of Sulphur dioxide in the air gradually increased over time followed by some fluctuations up to year 1900. The pollution level was high in mid 1800’s. However, the amount of air degradation began to decline sharply after 1900, resulting a almost zero amount in year 2000.

Pollution level from smoke was less compared to that of Sulphur dioxide but the pollution caused from smoke gradually increased with insignificant fluctuations and reached a peak point in around 1890. Then for the next 100 years, it began to decline with some fluctuations and ended up to almost a zero amount in the year 2000.

Time: 20 mins

Feedback score: 7.5

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The pie chart below shows the main reasons why agricultural land becomes less productive and the table shows how these causes affected three regions of the world during the 1990s.

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You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The pie chart below shows the main reasons why agricultural land becomes less productive and the table shows how these causes affected three regions of the world during the 1990s.

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

Write at least 150 words.

Sample: 1:

The pie chart illustrates the main reasons for worldwide agricultural land degradation which includes deforestation, over cultivation, over-grazing etc. The table shows how the lands from north America, Europe and Oceania had been affected by these reasons during the 1990s.

From the pie chart we can see that deforestation, over cultivation and over-grazing affected almost equally to worldwide land degradation, each of which contributed about 30%. There were other reasons which had insignificant (7%) contribution in degradation of agricultural land.

From the table it is clear that in 1990, among the three regions, agricultural land in Europe degraded the most because of deforestation, over cultivation and over-grazing which was more than one fifth of the total land. North Amarica’s land was less affected compared to the other regions. Deforestation occurred highly (9.8%) in Europe and North America was insignificantly (0.2%) affected by deforestation.

Over cultivation had degraded Europe’s 7.7% land whereas in Oceania, there was no land degradation due to over cultivation. Over Grazing seemed the main reason for Oceania’s land degradation which contributed 11.3% of the total 13% degraded land. North America was the least affected by over-grazing contributing 1.5% of the total 5% degraded land.

Time: 25 mins:

Feedback score: 7.5

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The line graph below provides information from Annual Energy Outlook 2008 about consumption of energy in the USA since 1980 with projection until 2030.

9/30/2019

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Task: 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The graph below gives information from Annual Energy Outlook 2008 about consumption of energy in the USA since 1980 with projection until 2030.

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

Write at least 150 words.

Sample: 1:

The line graph delineates a trend about how the six energies were consumed earlier in 1980 and what will be the future consumption of those energies in 2030 in USA.

Overall, Petrol and Oil were the most consumed energy in 1980 and it will continue its supremacy in 2030 whereas even though Nuclear, Solar/Wind power and Hydropower energy started from the same point in 1980, it is Hydropower that will be consumed the lowest in 2030.

To begin with, Petrol and Oil started at a consumption amount of almost 35 quadrillion units and then it experienced an almost continuous growth although having a drop in consumption in the 1980-1985 and 1990-1995 period. Natural gas and Coal, however began with a consumption of 20 and nearly 15 quadrillion units respectively but in the final projection portrays a different scenario where Coal reaching over 30 quadrillion units of consumption and Natural Gas finishing with 25 quadrillion units. Both of them faced random fluctuation over the period and were almost on the same level of consumption for some time during 1985-1995 and again in 2005-2020.

On the other hand,Nuclear, Solar/Wind and Hydropower energy were consumed less than 5 quadrillion units in 1980 but during the five years between 1885 to 1990 Nuclear energy consumption increased and it maintained a stable consumption after that ending with well above 5 quadrillion units in 2030. After 1990 Solar/Wind and Hydropower used to have fluctuations in consumption and finally after some time during 2005-2010 Solar/Wind surpassed Hydropower in consumption and finished with a little more than 5 quadrillion units. Lastly, Hydropower is the least consumed energy in 2030 with less than 5 quadrillion units of consumption. ( 277 words!)

Feedback: score 7.5

Lovely writing. It is ok to write more. However, if you cannot manage time, you should avoid writing more words. Try to summarize the information. Keep it up.

Sample: 2:

The line graph shows how much energy from different sources is consumed by the USA from the year 1980 till date and it also shows prediction up to 2030. The information is collected from Annual Energy Outlook 2008.

Overall, from the graph it is clear that petrol and oil consumption has always been highest in U.S and lowest consumption comes from hydropower energy.

Petrol consumption was the highest consumed fuel in the USA starting with 35 quadrillion in 1980. There was/ were some fluctuations up to year 2005 but after that, the amount of consumption went very high with a sharp upward trend which ended up with 50 quadrillion in 2030.

Natural gas and coal consumption were almost half in comparison of petrol consumption in 1980. Nevertheless, it is clear that the value went up gradually with some fluctuations.

In 1980, energy from three sources including nuclear energy, solar/wind energy and hydropower energy were consumed in lowest amount and approximately up to 7 years, the amount of consumption from these sources remained steady. However, they showed a slightly upward trend with some fluctuations up to year 2007 and then remained steady on different consumption level. Among these three sources, nuclear energy consumption was the highest with about 7.5 quadrillion starting from 2005, amount of solar energy consumed by the USA was 5 quadrillion and solar/wind energy consumption was the lowest in amount. ( 231 words, no need to write much)

Time: 30 mins ( you must write it within 18 minutes)

Task 1 feedback: score 7

Your writing is quiet good however you forgot to use some words like slightly increased/ decreased/ etc.
Task 2 is more important than task 1. So you must finish task 1 by 18 minutes. Try to present your ideas within 180 to 190 words to manage time.

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The chart below gives information about the number of social networking sites people used in Canada in 2014 and 2015.

9/30/2019

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The chart below gives information about the number of social networking sites people used in Canada in 2014 and 2015.

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

Write at least 150 words.

Sample: 1:

The bar charts represents the percentage of people in Canada using multiple social networking sites for two years including 2014 and 2015.

Overall, about one fifth people living in Canada uses no social networking sites, whereas, approximately 30% Canadians of the total population uses one social networking site in the year 2014 and 2015.

The percentage of people using no social sites decreased insignificantly in 2015. However, 36% of Canadians used one social networking sites in 2014 and the number decreased in 2015 making approximately one third of the total population.

In 2014, 23% people used two sites for social networking, which was increased a little bit in 2015 making about one fourth of the total population. The number of people using three sites increased by 4% in 2015, which constituted 16%. Very few people used four sites in 2014 for social networking, which slightly increased in 2015 making only 8%. Only 2% Canadians used five sites for social networking which was increased by only 2% in the year 2015.

Minutes took: 27 mins/ try to finish by 18 minutes, keep 2 minutes for revision:

Feedback: Score 7:

There are minor grammatical mistakes like subject verb agreement, passive voice,
Instead of present form write past as this report is for 2014 & 2015.

Sample: 2:

The bar chart depicts how different the number of social networking sites’ usage of people is in Canada between the years 2014 and 2015. Overall, it has been observed that people have more tendency to use more than one social networking site in 2015 than 2014.

At the beginning of the period,i.e., in 2014 more than half of the population, 58% to be precise, used either one or no social networking sites whereas it fell sharply in 2015 to 49%. In 2015, people’s habit of using social networking sites increased with more than 50% of the people using two or more sites. However, in both the years, the highest percentage of people were inclined to use only one networking site.

Feedback: score 4.5 ( as you have written only 120 words) / you must write 150 words this is the instruction.

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The pie charts below present the comparison of several kinds of energy production of France in 2 years.

9/30/2019

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The pie charts below show the comparison of different kinds of energy production of France in two years.

Sample: 1:

The two pie charts illustrate the difference in percentage of the production of energy in France from 1995 to 2005. Overall, Gas was the most produced energy at the beginning of the period whereas Coal took the place of Gas in 2005.On the other hand, energies other than Gas, Petro, Coal and Nuclear comprise the lowest share in energy production over the period.

Gas contributed to nearly 30% of the energies produced in 1995 which increased to more than 30% in 2005. But Coal became the most produced energy surpassing the production of Gas by a little margin in 2005. On the other hand, production of petro has been reduced by almost 10% over the period of ten years. Nuclear energies have also been produced at approximately 4% higher rate than ten years ago. Other energies continue to have the lowest share among all although there has also been a significant increase of nearly 5% in their production.

In conclusion, there has been a moderate change in the production of various types of energies in France over the period of ten years. Production of all types of energies have an increase except Petro which fall dramatically by 10%. However, Coal has become the most produced energy in 2005 coming from second position in 1995.

Feedback: score near 7.5

Overall, there is lovely presentation. However, it will be better if you can add following things

Firstly, it is not an essay rather it is a report. Though you can provide conclusion at the end of the report, it is better to provide overview at the beginning I mean after the paraphrase. You can start like, Overall, it can said that” Just you will mention the key point in the over view part.
Secondly, instead of writing 10%, 5%, 30%, 48%, you can write 5%= insignificant amount/ 30%= precisely one third, 48%= almost half, etc.

Sample 2:

The two pie charts illustrate how much different kinds of energy were produced by France in the year 1995 and 2005.
Overall, coal had contributed as the biggest sector of energy production in the year 1995 and 2005 whereas energy produced other than gas, coal, petroleum and nuclear energy contributed as the least sector.

Coal had contributed as the largest segment in the energy production in 1995 and it rose a little higher in 2005 making up to 30.93% contribution in the whole energy production. Similarly, Gas also contributed almost equally as coal, making up to 30.31% in the year 2005. Energy produced by other sources almost doubled in 2005 and contributed almost 10% in the total production in 2005.

Petroleum production, on the other hand, decreased about 30% from 1995 to 2005 and contributed 19.55% in the total production in 2005. However, production from nuclear energy increased nearly twofold in 2005. In 1995, 6.40% nuclear energy was produced by France which almost doubled in 2005 making approximately one tenth (nice word) of the whole production.

Feedback: score 7.5

Overall, there is lovely presentation. However, it will be better if you can add following things
Instead of writing 10%, 5%, 30%, 48%, you can write 5%= insignificant amount/ 30%= precisely one third, 48%= almost half, etc.
It is better to write over 10 years as an alternative of 1995 and 2005.

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The table provides statistics about a restaurant’s average sales in three different branches in the year 2016.

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@@This table is written by a student who is taking preparation for an IELTS exam. Feedback has been given at the end of the description.

Task 1:
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The table below gives information about a restaurant’s average sales in three different branches in 2016.

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

Write at least 150 words.

The table shows average sales of a restaurant’s three different branches in the year 2016 each of which was located in Vancouver city, Canada.

Overall, restaurant in Georgia street made the biggest sale ($10.69) among the three branches and the least sale occurred from Dunsmuir street branch ($5.61). Georgia street branch seemed very popular among the three branches.

From the table, it is clear that Georgia street branch made the highest number of transactions and Drake street branch made almost half transactions compared to that of Georgia which was the lowest one. Among these three branches, people used to like eating in Georgia street branch since the number of eat-in transactions was the highest making up to 405 transactions whereas Drake street branch made half transactions compared to that of Georgia.

In addition, take away food was most popular in Georgia street branch and least number of transactions for take away food came from Drake street branch. However, the difference in number of take away transactions for Georgia and Dunsmuir branch is insignificant compared to that of Drake street. In these three restaurants, foods made up with chicken were the most popular food items.

Feedback score: 7.5

Sample: 2

The tabular representation provides a comparitive summary with respect to the mean number of sales of three branches of a restaurant situated in three different streets of Vancouver,Canada in 2016.

Overall, the branch in Georgia Street can be regarded as high performer with respect to the number of transactions in all the catergories as well as the transaction value whereas the Drake Street’s branch is was/ the low performer.

To begin with, the branch situated in Georgia Street has/ hadthe most number of transactions with 854 transactions whereas the branch in Dunsmuir Street comes/ came at second position with 750 transactions and Drake Street branch is the last one with only 390 transactions. But with respect to transaction value although Georgia Street branch is at top with 10.69 dollars, Dunsmuir Street branch has the lowest transaction value of 5.61 dollars. Moreover,all the branches have more Take-away transactions than Eat-in transactions except the Drake Street one. Lastly, various kinds of chicken items (Burger, chicken wings and pasta respectively) are the most popular itemsin all three branches.

Feedback score: 6+

Look after your use of tense”. If the chart describes past event, write it in past.

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The best way to describe Bar & Line graph

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The Bar charts show the activity on the face book advertisement and the men and women who visited the particular advertisement in 2018.

Summarize the information and make comparison where it is necessary.

The Bar charts illustrate the activity on the face book advertisement and the men and women who were engaged with the certain advertisement in 2018. First chart shows the activity of the audience and the second chart shows the percentage of men and women who visited the advertisement. The amount has been shown in percentage.

Overall, it can be said that in the case of face book engagement, Photo click was the highest and Comment was the lowest. In another chart, most of the visitor of the advertisement was men.

In the activity chart it is found that the audience engaged on the face book by four different ways i.e., Link clicks, Photo Clicks, comments and Shares. Photo clicks were done by the 16 people that was the highest in number and with 3 people, comments were the lowest. The advertisement was shared by the 13 people. On the other hand, links were clicked only by the 4 persons.

In the case of audience, most of the visitors were men with age group 18-24 and 25-34 respectively and the percentages was 98.9%. Only an insignificant amount of women visited the advertisement which was only 1.1%. Rest of the age group categories went below 5%.
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The line graph shows that the particular face book page likes happened between 26th June 2019 to 22nd July 2019 from the various sources.

Summarize the information and make comparison where necessary.

The line graph presents the certain face book page likes which occurred between 26th June 2019 to 22nd July 2019 from the a variety of source over 28 days. The amount has been shown in numbers.

Overall, it can be said that over 28 days highest page like occurred on 1st July 2019 and the lowest page likes took place on 22nd July.

At the beginning, on the 26th June less than 10 people liked the page and on 29th June it was slightly decreased. However, from 29th June page like rocketed to about 50, but after 1 day it slightly decreased to 28 and again increased to 35 on 4th July. The fall of the page like continued till 6th July and declined to only an insignificant number (1).

From 6th July, with some fluctuations, it gradually increased to one quarter (25). But again from 9th July it decreased to 0. Then again after 12th July the page like slightly increased and reached to 15. With some fluctuation at the end of the 22nd July it again got 0 like.

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The best tips to describe Line graph & Line Graph & Pie Chart ( combined)

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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The graph illustrates average annual expenditures on cell phone and residential phone services between 2001 and 2010.

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

Write at least 150 words.

Model answer

The line graph demonstrates the regular cost that American clients spent on mobile and landline phone services per annum over a 10-year period.

Overall, it is found that expenses on residential phone services dramatically declined, despite the fact that status of mobile services amplified stridently all over a decade. Also, both of services assembled at the similar evidence in 2006.

Expenses on mobile phone services started just $200 in 2001, whilst the amount of yearly costs on the residential phone services was approximately $700. Over the subsequent five years, spending on landline phone services steadily dropped below $600, while costs on cell phone services climbed to just above $500.

In 2006 cell phones surpassed landline phones, and the services became equivalent in attractiveness with customers' yearly spending of about $550. Then, cell phone expenses mounted to around $750 in 2010, making nearly a fourfold jump moderately to its original figure in 2001. in the meantime, expenses on residential phone services experienced a sharp fall in 2007 and went on to gradually decline for the respite of the period. (168 words)

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The line graph shows the number of books that were borrowed in four different months in 2014 from four village libraries, and the pie chart shows the percentage of books, by type, that were borrowed over this time.

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

Write at least 150 words.

Model Answer:

The line chart describe the number of books that were lent out from four libraries over a 4 month period and the pie chart demonstrates the number of books loaned in terms of variety. It is instantly obvious that the patterns of borrowing for all libraries were quite different, and that fiction was the most well-liked category of book.

The books borrowing at Sutton Wood and Ryeslip started fairly high, at 250 and 300 per month in June correspondingly. On the other hand, whilst borrowing of book at Ryeslip steeped progressively to approximately 175 at the end, borrowing at Sutton Wood went after a much more unpredictable outline. It rocketed to 100 in August, prior to rising sharply to come to an end at 300, which embodied the peak level of having loan of the four.

Meanwhile, Borrowing at West Eaton and Church Mount, went after identical patterns, with both began with quite low at 50 per month, but then steadily increased to come to an end at 150.

In the case of selecting types of books loaned, fiction was the highly demand-able category, at 43%. The 2nd most well-liked books were biographies, accounting for approximately a fifth of the total. The loaned of science and history were the same, at 14% each, leaving self-help as the slightest accepted at an insignificant amount to 10%.

(211 Words)

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The easiest way to describe a diagram for writing task 1

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The diagram below shows the process of using water to generate electricity for human use.

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

You should write at least 150 words and spend 20 minutes.

For the academic IELTS, there are two part task 1 and task 2. In the academic writing, there are 5 kinds of writing tasks i.e Bar graph, Line Graph, Pie Chart, Table and lastly Diagram. Today we will discuss how to write Diagram effectively. Let,s go for this!

Diagram is totally different from other writing task 1. You will find more or less similarity among the 4 writing task 1 except diagram. For diagram you need to know some certain rules. It is similar to process writing. If you can remember process writing, you will find that the process follows some steps. You have to describe the things step by step. The important thing is you have to understand from where the process begin and how many steps are there. Sometimes you can divide that mainly into two parts.

You have to write a general statement and a thesis statement at the beginning as an introduction. Then you will use some linkers to write the process properly. In this case you should use some linkers like firstly, secondly, thirdly, afterwards, next, etc.

Fro writing task 1 you will get only 20 minutes to write 180 words, though the requirement of this task is 150 words, but to elaborate it properly you had better write 180 words. If you want to finish it timely, you must know time management. By two minutes, you have to understand the topic and buy another 3 minutes you will revise the writing and the rest of the 15 minutes you have to write 150 to 180 words.

Sample Answer:

The diagram depicts the process of how the electricity is produced using water. In this picture two processes are found i.e. the natural process and the artificial mechanical process. The combination of these two processes, electricity is produced.

Firstly, the natural process has both the condensation and evaporation process. In the natural process the water is shined by the sun and the water is evaporated into the cloud and the cloud falls down into the reservoir during the time of rain.

Secondly, the rain water flows from the reservoir to the turbine through pipe where a valve control the volume of water. Afterwards, the water is pushed back to the reservoir by a pump. This is the first step of the mechanical process.

Finally, the turbine converts water into electricity. In this part the step two of mechanical process begins where turbine plays a central role to produce electricity. From the spinning of the turbine, the electricity is produced and that is sent to the transformer station through a high voltage cable. After that the electricity becomes ready for the use. By an underground cable the electricity is sent to the schools, hospitals, factories, household and to the customers.

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The graph below shows relative price changes for fresh fruits and vegetables, sugars and sweets, and carbonated drinks between 1978 and 2009.

The graph below shows the pollution levels in London between 1600 and 2000.

The pie chart below shows the main reasons why agricultural land becomes less productive and the table shows how these causes affected three regions of the world during the 1990s.

The line graph below provides information from Annual Energy Outlook 2008 about consumption of energy in the USA since 1980 with projection until 2030.

The chart below gives information about the number of social networking sites people used in Canada in 2014 and 2015.

The pie charts below present the comparison of several kinds of energy production of France in 2 years.

The table provides statistics about a restaurant’s average sales in three different branches in the year 2016.

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