sport club member

The table below shows the results of survey to find out what members of a city sports club think about the club's activities, facilities and opening hours.

sample answer from books :
The table compares the opinions of male and female club members about the services provided by a city sports club.  Overall, it can be seen from the table that most respondents are happy with all three aspects of the club.  Female members are most unhappy eith the range of activities while male members feel that opening hours are the least satisfactory aspect of the club.

We can see from the response that the male members are generally happy or satisfied with the range activities at the club, with only 5% dissatisfied.  In contrast, however, only about two-third of female members were positive about the activity range and almost a third were dissatisfied.

The genders were more in agreement about the club facilities.  Only 14% of women and 10% of men were unhappy with these, and the majority (64 and 64% respectively) were very  positive.

Finally, the female respondents were much happier with the club opening hours than their male counterparts.  Almost three -quarters of them were very satisfied with these and only 3% were unhappy, whreas nearly 40% of the men expressed their dissatisfaction.

model essay : opinion

It is acommon aspiration among many young people to run their own business, rather than work for an employer.
Do you think the advantages if working for yourself outweigh the drawbacks?
Source IELTS book Brown and Richards

annual spending by particular school in UK

The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spending by a particular UK school in 1991, 1991 and 2001.

The chart show how a UK school spent on different running costs in three seperate years : 1981, 1991 and 2001.

In all three years, the greatest expenditure was on salaries.  But while other workers salaries saw a fall from from 28% in 1981 to only 15% of spending in 2001, teachers' pay remained the biggest cost, reaching 50% of total of spending in 1991 and ending at 45% in 2001.

Expenditure on reaources as books had increased to 20% by 1991 before decreasing to only 9% by the end of the period.  In contrast, the cost of furniture and equipment saw an opposite trend.  This cost decreased to only 5% of total expenditure in 1991 but rose dramatically in 2001 when it represented 23% of the school budget.  Similarly, the cost of insurance saw a rising trend, growing from only 2% to 8%.

Overall, teachers' salaries consituted the largest cost to the school, and while spending increased dramatically for equpment and insurance, there were corresping drops in expenditure on things as books and on otherk workers' salaries.

Source : IELTS Books Cambridge 8