Cambridge 9, Test 2, Writing Task 1.

It is my example essay for a writing task 1 from Cambridge IELTS Book.

  The diagram demonstrates the over-all amount of minutes which the UK citizens spent on phone talks in three main categories over a period of 7 years. 

Overall, the figures for local calls fluctuated, while the total minutes of national and international and mobiles calls rose between 1995 and 2002. The most dramatic increase was seen in talks with mobile phones. 

British people spent over 70 billion minutes on local phone talks in 1995, when a half of those numbers was taken up by national and international calls. At the same time mobile phone using were not as more popular as others and the figures for mobiles were approximately 2 billions. The amount of minutes of local-fixed line calls reached a peak of 90 billion in 1999.

There was a gradual rise in all three categories from 1995 to 1999.  Then national and international telephone calls went up from 50 billion minutes to about 62 billion minutes in 2002, when local call minutes fall from 90 billion minutes to 72 billion minutes. Mobiles saw the sharp increase for 7 years and the amount of its minutes was about 45 billion at the end of period.