IELTS Two Line Graph: Sample Answer & Exercise

Here is an IELTS line graph sample answer describing two lines. You must fill in the gaps to complete the model writing task 1. Answers are given below. If you wish to learn more vocabulary for a line graph, follow the link.

The line graph below shows radio and television audiences throughout the day in 1992.

Source: Graph below was not designed by IELTS Liz. Source unknown.


two line graphs

Line Graph Sample Answer

Fill in the gaps to complete the sample answer for the above line graph. You can use more than one word in each answer.

The line graph illustrates the (1) ………………………… of people listening to the radio and watching TV who were over the age of 4  in (2) …………………… period, in the UK from October to December 1992.

Overall, the (3)…………………….. of people listened to the radio in the morning while (4)………………. people watched TV in the evening. Over the 24 hour period, there were more people watching TV than there were listening to the radio.

(5)……………………. the TV, at 1am there were under 10% of people watching TV. This (6)…………………………… remained relatively (7)…………….. until 11am when there was a (8)……………. increase in people watching TV before (9)………….. at approximately 45% at around 9pm. After that time, there was a (10)…………… drop in viewers to under 20% by midnight.

Similarly, the percentage of listeners to the radio also began low at under 5%. After continuing at under 5%, the figure then rose (11)……………… to a (12) …………. of almost 30% at about 8am. From that point, the proportion of audience (13) ………………. in a gradual (14)……………… trend to 5% at the (15) ………. of the day.

Answers
  1. proportion / percentage
  2. a 24 hour
  3. majority
  4. most
  5. Regarding / With regard to / In regard to
  6. figure
  7. stable / constant
  8. steady / gradual
  9. peaking
  10. sharp / rapid / dramatic / sudden / considerable / significant
  11. sharply / rapidly / dramatically / suddenly / considerably / significantly
  12. peak / high
  13. fluctuated
  14. downward
  15. end

 

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  1. The given graph illustrates radio and television viewing routines of the UK population from October to December 1992.
    Overall, television had consistently achieved a higher total viewership than the radio. The TV reached its peak viewership in the nighttime slot. While the radio had its peak listenership in the morning slot.
    The radio’s listenership was at the lowest from midnight to 6am with fewer than 5% of UK population tuning in. Afterwards, it quickly rose in the morning reaching its peak at 8am by attracting about 25% of the people. It could be that the audience enjoyed hearing radio in the morning while having breakfast, travelling to their offices, and performing other chores.
    Similarly, UK’s television viewership was also at its lowest in the midnight. It began to rise from 11am. Afterwards, it quickly picked up viewership and reached its peak at 5pm to 9pm. Post evening time, it engaged 45% of the population in their after-work leisure hours. This viewership fell quickly to almost 15% of the total after 9pm with the arrival of resting hours.
    Lastly, when listenership of the radio began to decline, viewership of the television started to rise, showcasing the shift in audiences’ preferences with the changes in time slots.

  2. Jenny says

    The line graph compares the proportions of the British population over 4 years old who were entertained by radio and TV during the different time of the day between October and December 1992.

    Overall, it can be clearly seen that in the morning people preferred radio, whereas TV was a more popular choice in the second part of the day with the highest amount of hours spent in the evening.

    Starting at 1am, 7% watched TV, which was followed by a drop to under 5% until around 6am; the same pattern was observed for those who listened to radio. However, from 6am the proportion of radio audience soared to its peak at over a quarter 2 hours later, followed by a constant fall onwards. In contrast, the percent of TV audience inclined to around 8% at 8am and to nearly 15% at 1pm after a dip to under 5% 2 hours before.

    Moving to the activities of the second part of the day, the proportion of radio listeners kept on falling to about 5% by the end of the day with some fluctuation between 15.00 and 21.00. On the other hand, the percent of TV audience experienced a significant rise to its peak at roughly 45% between 8pm and 9pm, which was followed by a sharp decline to around 15% by the end of the day.

  3. mmudream says

    The line graph illustrates the frequency of using TV and radio during a day in the UK from October to December 1992.
    Overall, it can be seen that one activity alternates with the other one. In the first half of the day, the majority of the UK audience prefers listening to the radio, meanwhile, after 1 pm the number of TV users extremely goes up.
    At 1 am, the percentage of the audience slightly rises and at approximately 6 am, it sharply climbs and hits a high of about 27%. Then, people start using the radio less and the frequency decreases – the percentage goes down, soon rises at 5 pm to around 15% and declines again, having some insignificant drops.
    In terms of television, at 1 am, the percentage of users falls to 2%, then start rising, having some fluctuations. At 11 am, the frequency of using TV grows notably and reaches its peak at about 45% at 9 pm. Then, the percentage of TV users goes down.

  4. Yasien Essam Mohamad says

    The given graph illustrates the amount of audiences of radio and television in the span of 24 hours, this data has been collected from October to December of 1992 in UK.

    We can see that in the period between midnight and early morning at 6 AM, the numbers of audiences are reaching the rock bottom with a value of around 5 % for both broadcasters.

    when people begin to wake up to go to work in around 7 AM, numbers of radio audiences is wildly peaked and reached the highest point that it can go at around 25% of UK population, on the other hand television is still steady at 5%.

    Throughout the day radio numbers is gradually step down and in contrast television is steadily increase until we reached the breakeven point at around 2 PM when television is outnumbering the radio because people is beginning to return from work.

    In the final hours of the days, television reached its highest value of audiences in around 7 PM with nearly 45% of UK population, on the other hand radio is still at the rock bottom with only 5%.

    We can conclude from this data is people tend to listen to radio while going to work and after returning home they begin to relax and watch tv until near their bedtime.

  5. Hi Liz,
    Thank you so much for those materials! They are really helpful for my IELTS test preparation.
    I have a question. “The line graph illustrates the proportion of people listening to the radio and watching TV…” In this sentence, can I change proportion to proportions? and why?
    I considered the plural form, proportions, because there were two categories of people. One category is people watching TV and another category is people listenning to radio.
    Looking forward to your answer.
    Thank you very much!

    • Sure, that’s fine. English grammar isn’t always black and white. In this case, both options are possible.

  6. sajana H.K says

    This line chart illustrates the proportion of tv and radio listeners in England (age over four years old) from October to December 1992.
    Overall, the majority have presented as TV users, which is almost 45% at around 21 hours. Besides, these TV waivers gradually increased over the given time in a day. Around 11 its has slightly increased, up to 15% and then around 13.30, significantly increased up to 40%. Then instantly decreased to 15 present at midday or night. Although, around 1 to 10.30, we could see some slight changes in television viewers which is maximum goes to 6%.
    In terms of British radio audiences, who were highly active around 8 p.m. or a.m., that is notable while it gradually decreases and maximum indicate 4% during the day after midday or night. Outstandingly, the Radio listening Percentage has increased up to 25 at 5.30, and it lasts till 7.30. Then after, it eventually falls to likely 10%. Later 13.30 diagram shows some slight differences until the rest of the day.
    Likewise, we can see the Highest proportion of British children who tend to watch TV rather than listening to the radio in 1992, the period given. According to the chart, The proportion of children who had been watched TV is twice as much as people who were listening to the radio.

  7. Gustavo says

    The graph line presents the British television and radio audience throughout the average day between October and December in 1992, which the percentage of UK population (over 4-years old) and the timeline from 1 a.m. to midnight are the vertical and horizontal values respectively. The TV and radio graph lines are compound of blue and red line colors each. At the beginning, The TV and radio audience had similar samples motions within a range of 2.5% to 7%, in which, TV watchers had obtained a slight lead from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m with 1% more.

    Whereas the TV audience kept going its pace until 11:30 a.m., the listeners turned their radios on and abruptly reached to its hearing peak with a quarter at 8 a.m. Nevertheless, the listeners had started to gradually descend from this time and reached to the least mark of 5% at the end of the day.

    On the other hand, the TV audience had 2 increases, firstly it had started to gradually go up from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. reaching to 16%, secondly it hugely raised from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and achieving its peak with 45%, almost the half country population were watching the TV services at 8 p.m. However, it started to quickly go down just after 9 p.m and closed the graph with 15% at midnight.

  8. Raghda says

    Dear Liz, I tried doing the exercice and my exam is next week, i was hoping if you could give me a general feedback at my trial please. Thank you

    The line graph demonstrates the proportion of british citizens that are entertained by either the television or the radio, over the course of the day, from October to December in 1992.
    Overall, the percentage of television viewing exceeds the radio’s frequency, specifically during the second half of the day. Conversely, the proportion of people listening to the radio falls remarkably from the afternoon till the end of the day.
    From 1 am to 6, the usage of both modes of entertainment is trivial with an average of only 5%. On one hand,, the number of people listening to the radio increases sharply at 6am, to reach its peak (25%) at almost 9 am. On the other hand, during this period, the percentage of Tv viewers remains steady at 5%, which is followed by a dip at 11 am. In the afternoon, the Tv and the Radio occupied a similar importance with a proportion of approximately 15%. However, from 13, the number of radio listeners fell gradually with a few fluctuations, until it reached 5% at the end of the day. Whereas, during that time the percentage of the population watching the TV grew dramatically and it reached its peak at around 20 with a percentage of 40%. During the end of the day, a steep decline in the television’s audience can be observed, as viewing decreases by almost 25%.

  9. The graph illustrates the audiences of TV and radio period 24 hours between Oct and Dec in 1992 in UK.
    Overall the radio unchanged from 1:00 AM to 6:00 AM but increased dramatically in 7:00 AM although after 3 hours drop to 26%. Likewise, in TV in morning duration it hadn’t changed until 8:00 AM rise to 6% which have decreased in 10:00 AM.As we see in TV is rises especially in evening whereas radio rocked in the morning.people almost reach to 50% between 16:00 PM to 21:00 PM which start to drop to 30% in the following hours.
    In the whole, the chart despite that in 13:00 PM both get to 15% but after an hour radio fall to 12% also decrease again to 10% in 15:00 PM. Although radio had fluctuate after 15:00 PM.which explain that people prefer watching TV in the evening until midnight even though 6% of people watching in morning.Despite of this that the most people as the graph shows they rather to listen to radio in the morning they reach to 25% in this percent was the highest one of radio.
    dear Liz could please tell me which the expected band can get it in IELTS.
    Thank you very much

  10. Dear liz,

    I did the Ielts couple days ago, on the writing of task 1 I wrote the whole structure which includes intro by paraphrasing the question and in the over view I wrote that “Overall, USA has the highest number of immigration as posed as Australia has the lowest number of immigration while USA has the highest number of immigration for the the whole period whereas Australia has the lowest number of immigration “. Plus paragraph one I explain every year separately there was 11 years on the graph that is given + one sentence of paragraph 2, with using translation words in the whole task. On the other task or task 2. I wrote the almost the same intro as yours with including 2 or 3 high level of vocab it was about 100 words it took most of the first page. first I mention brief intro about the topic than a brief intro about what should I include than my opinion after that what I will include in the whole task. The paragraphs was containing (brief intro, thesis, one or two (complex or compound sentence)and full of simple sentence the result than a small conclusion).
    So please could you estimate my mark according to what I have said.

    • Your score is based on Task Achievement, Coherence & Cohesion, grammar and vocabulary. Your writing is analysed in great detail to decide a final score and is not based on a simple description of what you have done. You must wait for your results to see your score. However, I will say that an introduction which is 100 will not help your score. An introduction is usually 40 – 50 words.

  11. Namaste, from Nepal
    Dear Liz, we were taught to write conclusion in writing task 1, but i don’t feel comfortable with it as we mentioned same things in overview. What should I do?

    • Never repeat information. Task 1 is not an essay. It is a short report. All key features are reported in an overview and should not be highlighted again. The body paragraphs present the details (usually data).

  12. Thank you a lot!

  13. Hellor Liz, thank you so much for this amazing website.Much appreciated . With regard to writing task 2, I seem not to find any other lessons apart from writing Introduction and Thesis statement.Can I get a link to the rest of the lessons for writing task 2?.
    Thank you!

    • Look at the red nav bar at the top of this website. You will see links to all the main pages on that red bar. Click on the writing task 2 section to find a lot more posts, model answers, tips, videos etc.

  14. Minh Hoa says

    Minh Hoa says:
    Hi Liz,
    I am not good at analyzing charts, tables to do IELTS TASK 1 . Could you really help?

    Regards,
    Hoa

  15. Mohammad Zakaria says

    Thank you mam,

    Can you give me any instruction or link abut the use of preposition?

    Thanks in advance.

  16. Hoang Si Van says

    Hi Liz,

    Your lesson is very useful.

    Regards,
    Hoang

  17. Nhung Tran says

    Hi Liz,

    Is this sentence acceptable?

    There were more people watching TV than listening to the radio

  18. simmi says

    Hi Liz,

    Can a conclusion be avoided altogether in task 1 academic
    I’m confused!HELP

    • There is no conclusion in writing task 1. Please see my writing task 1 section to learn more.
      Thanks
      Liz

  19. Hello Liz
    Your teachings have been of great help to me.I am presently preparing to take my test by the month end.Please how do I get my essays and reading practices assessed?

    • Unfortunately, I don’t offer any marking services. On this blog, all reading practice exercises have answers. If you want to practice full reading tests, you should get the IELTS Cambridge books 1 to 10 (number 10 is the most recent). They are books with real exam papers published by IELTS. For writing, you will need to find an IELTS teacher to help you with assessing your level.
      All the best
      Liz

  20. Dear Liz,
    What’s the difference between “In regard to” and “With regard to”? Aren’t these the same in grammar and meaning?

    Would be so kind of me by explaining it.

    With regards,
    Mohan Anbgo

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