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IELTS Academic Task 1: Mixed Charts — Culture & media
Original practice prompt written in exam style — not a real exam question, and not a prediction.
The charts below show cinema admissions and the average price of a cinema ticket in a country between 2000 and 2020. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The data is as follows. Admissions (bars, in millions per year): 160 million in 2000, 175 million in 2005, 170 million in 2010, 172 million in 2015, and 45 million in 2020. Average ticket price (line, in US dollars): $5.00 in 2000, $6.50 in 2005, $8.00 in 2010, $9.00 in 2015, and $9.50 in 2020. Ticket prices rose in every period shown, almost doubling over the twenty years, while admissions fluctuated within a narrow range until 2015 and then fell dramatically in 2020, to just over a quarter of their 2015 level.
Examiner focus: One line only goes up, one series is stable then crashes — the overview should state both patterns before any figures.
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