IELTS Writing - Spot the mistakes

Spot the mistake: The number of road accidents began at over 4 million in 1983 and then go up steadily to 5 million in 1985.

• began

• go up

• at over 4 million

• to 5 million

Spot the mistake: In 2000, the figure peaked at 6.5 million before decrease to 3 million in 2005.

• decrease

• peaked at

• the figure

• to 3 million

Spot the mistake: The diagram illustrates how used paper was recycled.

• was

• illustrates

• used paper

• recycled

Spot the mistake: When students decide to take a gap year and then witnessed their friends move on to the university, they may feel behind their peers.

• move on to the university

• take a gap year

• witnessed

• may feel behind

Spot the mistake: There are a lot of advantages for people if they are starting to work from home.

• work from home

• a lot of

• they are starting

• advantages

Spot the mistake: Over the past few decades, sixteen houses were built in the town.

• sixteen houses

• were built

• few decades

• in the town

Spot the mistake: If the environment will be increasingly hostile, people will have no place to live in the next decades.

• will be

• will have no place

• increasingly hostile

• in the next decades

Spot the mistake: Comparing the two maps, in 2010, there was a small cinema in the east of the town, but at present, this facilitiy is converted into a big shopping mall.

• comparing the two maps

• there was a small cinema

• in the east of the town

• this facility is converted into...

Spot the mistake: People work from home can save expenses and time for transportation.

• People work from home

• can save expenses

• and time for transportation

Spot the mistake: Governments should responsibility for protecting the environment.

• Governments

• should responsibility

• for protecting the environment