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IELTS Academic Task 1: Map — Villages & change
Original practice prompt written in exam style — not a real exam question, and not a prediction.
The maps below show a village in 1985 and in 2015. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The layouts are as follows. The village lies on a river that flows from north to south along its eastern edge, with a bridge in the north-east. In 1985, most of the land west of the village centre was farmland, with a small wood in the north-west corner. The village itself consisted of about twenty houses along a single main street, a shop and a primary school. By 2015, the farmland had been replaced by a housing estate of about eighty new houses, and the wood had been cleared to make way for a golf course. The shop had expanded into a small supermarket, and a new health centre had been built next to the school. The school, the bridge and the river were unchanged, and a new road connected the housing estate to the main street.
Examiner focus: Rural to residential: quantify the housing growth (about 20 → about 100 homes) and track the farmland and woodland losses.
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