A great IELTS Writing Task 1 answer by a student 🍋

"The charts show how many metric tons of fresh citrus fruit were exported from seven different countries in 2010. Overall, oranges were the most prevalent type of fruit sold overseas, followed by lemons, grapefruits and other types. The two leading countries in terms of total supply volumes were South Africa and the US.

Oranges comprised the highest volume of export (2.6 million metric tons altogether), with South Africa being the leading seller (1 million metric tons). Following closely came Egypt and the US, with about 900,000 and 700,000 metric tons respectively.

Second in popularity were lemons, traded internationally by Turkey and Mexico in almost the same volume: with half a million metric tons by the former and just 50,000 metric tons fewer by the latter. Argentina sold half the volume Turkey did: 250,000 metric tons.

Unlike for lemons, with 1.2 million metric tons sold altogether, the total sum for grapefruits was just about a half of that. The major sellers of this citrus fruit were South Africa, the US and Turkey. The first two countries sold slightly less than a quarter of a million metric tons each, while Turkey was only 50,000 metric tons behind (175,000).

As for unspecified types of citrus fruit, the leading trader was Mexico. Interestingly, it sold 450,000 metric tons, which was exactly the same volume as its lemon export. The other countries that traded other types were Israel and the US, but their exports didn’t exceed 10 metric tons each."

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By Ekaterina Syomina

This is a really good answer for a less-than-good task. First, the scales on each type of fruit are different, which is not very common. Second, paraphrasing “exports” is a bit challenging, as is showing lexis and grammar range. But I think Ekaterina did a great job showing that range.

🍋 See my overview for this task here: https://t.me/irinalutsenko/420

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