Academic writing practice for IELTS-Task 1-Test 2

Writing task 1-Test 2

My answer:

The bar charts reveal the results of a poll which asked theatre goers to give their opinions on irritants during performances at the theatre.

The irritants can be divided into 2 main groups including sound and non-sound irritants with 12 irritating factors in total. For the former, ‘rustling sweet papers’ was chosen by the largest amount of asked people with 90%, bringing it to the top of the list. ‘Coughing’ and ‘whispering’ were supposed to be annoying by 75% and 60% of the respondents respectively. Half of the sample signified mobilephone as disturbing noise, which is followed closely by ‘sneezing’ which is given by 45%. Occupying 2 last positions are ‘bleeps’ and ‘snoring’ that irritated 40% and 30% of the participants.

The other group was not sound, comprising of five factors. Among those, ‘arriving late’ is the most selected irritant with ¾ of the sample specifying it as disturbance. By contrast, only ¼ of asked people was annoyed by ‘armrest hogging’, making it the least chosen disturbing factors among 12. The other two listed irritants in this group named ‘flash photography’ and ‘big hairdos’ being indicated by equal percentage of 25% which was slightly lower than ‘tall people’ being selected by 30%.

In a nutshell, the ultimate irritants for theatre goers during performances belong to sounds group.

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Hi Aqua!!!

You are doing good...but please don't mind if i post my 'own answer' to this test...hope this can help you as well...

A poll was conducted on different theatre-goers to determine what irked them while watching performances at the theatre and the results reveal: There are two main types of disturbances that annoy theatre-goers which can be classified as sound-producing disturbances and sight-blocking factors (non-sound), the former comprising 60% of the total disturbance factors while the latter is taking the other 40%.

Going into details, the first type of disturbances included ‘rustling sweet papers’ as the No. 1 annoying factor for the 90% theatre-goers who were surveyed. This was followed by ‘coughing’ and ‘whispering’ which annoyed 75% and 60% of the respondents, respectively. Half of the samples signified mobilephone as disturbing noise, followed closely by ‘sneezing’ which comprised 45%. The two last sound-producing irritants were ‘bleeps’ and ‘snoring’ which, respectively, bothered 40% and 30% of the samples.

On the same line, sight-blocking factor (non-sound) like ‘arriving late’ disturbed 70% (3/4?) of the theatre-goers in the survey. The least of the respondents, comprising only 20% (1/4?), were slightly bothered with ‘armrest hogging’ making it the last on the list of the 12 disturbance factors. However, ‘flash photography’ and ‘big hairdos’ equally disturbed 25% of the respondents, making a slight difference with the ‘tall people’ theatre-goers that disturbed 30%.

The chart, therefore, clearly shows that theatre-goers are most disturbed by the sound-producing irritants particularly the ‘rustling sweet papers’ during performances at the theatre.

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bluebirdy wrote:

Hi Aqua!!!

You are doing good...but please don't mind if i post my 'own answer' to this test...hope this can help you as well...

Of course, I don't mind. The only thing that I mind is there is no comment left here. I understand that reading others' writing and do the writing is very time-consuming and requires a lot of effort but you spend your valuable time checking it for me and even post your own writing here.

Birdy, I would never say thank enough to you due to your kindness and enthusiasm. Like a Star @ heaven

Your writing really helps me to broaden my way of writing in English

I will try harder!!! Thank you so so so much, Birdy!!! Like a Star @ heaven

P/S: I have made mistakes with the figures 3/4 and 1/4 because of my wrong calculation. Hehe. Thank you for showing it to me ^^

Oh Miss Birdy,you're back again to help us here.Aqua,you're so lucky to have Miss Birdy being your tutor for this writing.She's really a tutor of great talent.

nguyetngan wrote:

Oh Miss Birdy,you're back again to help us here.Aqua,you're so lucky to have Miss Birdy being your tutor for this writing.She's really a tutor of great talent.

Yes, Ngan. I also find myself in luck ^^. That's why I keep writing and waiting for being corrected.

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