Sample Academic Writing Task 1 Pie Pie Charts The charts below show the proportions of British Students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages in addition to English, in 2000 and 2010.

The charts below show the proportions of British Students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages in addition to English, in 2000 and 2010.

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

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Pie Charts 

The given pie charts illustrate changes in the ratio of British students at a English university between 2000 and 2010.

It can be clearly observed from both the graphs that the ratio of the students who could not speak any other language except English rose from 30% in 2000 to 35% in 2010.

A similar trend was observed in case of another language and two other languages besides English. There was an increase 5% each the quoted period, from 15% to 20% and from 10% to 15% .

On the other hand, proportion of students with multilingual abilities in French or Spanish, apart from English witnessed a decline of 5% (from 15% to 10%) and 10% (from 20% to 10%) respectively though the fall in number of students with ability to use Spanish was steeper.

In the contrast to above quoted trends, the number of English pupils with an ability to community in German besides English remained similar, 10% in corresponding period.