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IELTS Academic Task 1: Mixed Charts — Climate & weather
Original practice prompt written in exam style — not a real exam question, and not a prediction.
The chart below shows average rainfall and average temperature by quarter in a European city. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The data is as follows. Rainfall (bars, in millimetres per quarter): 210 mm in the first quarter (January–March), 150 mm in the second, 120 mm in the third, and 240 mm in the fourth (October–December). Average temperature (line, in °C): 6° in the first quarter, 13° in the second, 19° in the third, and 9° in the fourth. The wettest quarter is the fourth and the driest is the third, which is also the warmest; the coldest quarter, the first, is the second wettest. In other words, rainfall and temperature move in opposite directions across the year.
Examiner focus: The relationship between the two measures is the task: wettest = cold half of the year, driest = warmest quarter.
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