IELTS 5-6.5 UNIT WRITING LINE GRAPH VOCABULARY

The graph compares the ____________ of junk food for teens in Australia over a 25 year period, between 1975 and 2000.

• consume

• consumers

• consumption

Overall, the consumption of fish and chips _______________   over the provided period, whereas the amount of pizza and hamburgers that were eaten _______________  .

• increased/ declined

• increases/ declines

• declines/ increases

• declined/ increased

In 1975, (a)     junk food with Australian adolescents was fish and chips, being eaten 100 times a year.

 This was _______________  Pizza and hamburgers, which were consumed approximately 5 times a year.

• far higher than

• far lower than

 However, apart from a_______________   again from 1980 to 1985, the consumption of fish and chips  _______________ over the 25 year timescale  to finish at just under  40 in 2000.

• brief rise/ gradually declined

• dip/ slowly climbed up

In sharp contrast to this, teenagers ate the other two fast foods at _______________   levels.

• far lower

• much higher

Pizza consumption_______________   until it _______________  the consumption of fish and chips in 1990.

(Choose 2 correct answers)

• increased slightly/ overtook

• increased gradually/ surpassed

• made a steady increase/ exceeded

 It then  _______________ off from 1995 to 2000.

• leveled

• took

• levels

• takes

 _______________ was seen in hamburgers as the occasions they were eaten_______________  throughout the 70’s and 80’s, exceeding that of fish and chips in 1985.

(Choose 2 correct answers)

• The biggest rise/ increased sharply

• The biggest rise/ rocketed

• The biggest raise/ increased rapidly

It finished at _______________  fish and chips began, with a consumption of 100 times a year.

• same level as

• the same level as

• the same