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IELTSアカデミックライティングパート1のストラクチャーと有用な単語

実際の問題を例にしながら解説していきます。

  1. The pie chart shows the amount of money that a children’s charity located in the USA spent and received in one year.

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

Write at least 150 words.

(チャートは載せませんが、二つの円グラフがある問題です)

 

回答文字数は10パーセント増しの165文字が理想です。

以下、有用なフレーズは太字にしています。

(問題文の言いかえ・パラフレ)The pie charts show the amount of revenue and expenditures in 2016 and for a children’s charity in the USA. Calibration of date is done in percentage.

(読み取れる大まかな事・サマリー)Overall, the total amount of income was just enough to cover the expenditures. Moreover, donated food made the highest share in total income while the maximum money spent on program service.

(読み取れる詳細な事 ①)To begin with, donated food provided the most of the revenue for the charity, at 86%. Similarly, with regard to expenditures, program services, calculated for nearly all of the outgoings, at 95.8%. The other categories were much smaller. Community contributions were the second largest revenue source, brought in 10.4% of overall income, and this was followed by program revenue, at 2.2%. On the other hand, investment income, government grants, and other income were very small sources of revenue, accounting for only 0.8% combined.

(読み取れる詳細な事 ②)There were only two other expenditure items, fundraising and management and general, with a slight difference both accounting for 2.6% and 1.6% respectively.

 

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