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IELTS Academic Task 1: Map — Tourism & development
Original practice prompt written in exam style — not a real exam question, and not a prediction.
The maps below show an island before and after the construction of facilities for tourists. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The layouts are as follows. Before development, the island had only a few palm trees in the east and west, a beach on its north-west coast, and open land elsewhere; a short pier stood on the south coast. After development, a resort occupies the centre and west of the island: a reception building and a restaurant stand in the centre, with accommodation huts arranged around them — a cluster in the west connected by footpaths, and two huts in the east. A vehicle track links the reception to the pier, which has been extended, and to the restaurant. The beach in the north-west is now used for swimming, and the palm trees have been kept. No facilities have been built in the far east of the island.
Examiner focus: Almost everything is new: describe the island by zones (west accommodation, central facilities, untouched east) and mention what survived unchanged.
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