TABLE 1 - Waste production

TASK 1: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The table below shows the amount of waste production (in millions of tonnes) in six different countries over a twenty-year period.

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



The chart compares the amounts of waste that were produced in six countries in the years 1980, 1990 and 2000.

In each of these years, the US produced more waste than Ireland, Japan, Korea, Poland and Portugal combined. It is also noticeable that Korea was the only country that managed to reduce its waste output by the year 2000.

Between 1980 and 2000, waste production in the US rose from 131 to 192 million tonnes, and rising trends were also seen in Japan, Poland and Portugal. Japan’s waste output increased from 28 to 53 million tonnes, while Poland and Portugal saw waste totals increase from 4 to 6.6 and from 2 to 5 million tonnes respectively.

The trends for Ireland and Korea were noticeably different from those described above. In Ireland, waste production increased more than eightfold, from only 0.6 million tonnes in 1980 to 5 million tonnes in 2000. Korea, by contrast, cut its waste output by 12 million tonnes between 1990 and 2000.

( IELTS-SIMON)


Note: 

  • Một số paraphrase từ ý "the amount of waste production that were produced " trong đề bài : 

" the US produced ..." ; " waste production in the US..." ; " Japan’s waste output "; " In Ireland, waste production "...

  •  Những cấu trúc hay:

- "  the US produced more waste than Ireland, Japan, Korea, Poland and Portugal combined" 

( Mỹ tạo ra nhiều chất thải hơn cả năm nước - Ireland, Japan, Korea, Poland và Portugal cộng lại) 

- " rising trends were also seen in Japan, Poland and Portugal " 

( xu hướng tăng lên này cũng được nhìn thấy ở Japan, Poland và Portugal )

- 2 vế luôn được dùng với cấu trúc khác nhau:

" Japan’s waste output increased from ...., while Poland and Portugal saw waste totals increase from ...." 

( Lượng chất thải của Japan tăng từ ..., trong khi Poland và Portugal có lượng chất tải tăng từ...)

" In Ireland, waste production increased ...Korea, by contrast, cut its waste output by 12 million tonnes..."

( Ở Ireland, sản lượng chất thải đã tăng .... Ngược lại, Hàn Quốc đã cắt giảm 12 triệu tấn chất thải ...)