You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graphs below show the enrolments of overseas students and local students in Australian universities over a ten year period. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words. Writing task 1

The graph underneath describes the number of abroad

students

and local

students

in Australia for a decade.

Overall

, there

are

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is

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inreasing

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increasing

number of overseas

students

year after year, as you can see, there are fewer commencing

students

in local universities. Turning to details, starting with 2001 only 20000

students

were studying abroad and it has been gradually increasing. As we can see, the

amount

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number

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of undergraduates

are

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is

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rised

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raised

risen

sharply between 2004 and 2009.

Then

, it reached its peak in 2010 at

point

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the point

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of 80000

students

.

In contrast

,

students

, who were studying in native

instituties

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institutions

institutes

, were 400,000, and have been growing up for 6 years, after that, it stayed steady for 4 years.

However

, commencing

students

were fluctuated

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fluctuated

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between 2001 and 2008.

Then

, it steadily decreased. As you can see, there is a big difference between progress and

number

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the number

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of undergraduates studying overseas and in Australia. It can be seen that after years, more and more

students

are going to study abroad,

however

, some of them

staying

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stay

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in Australia. In common, there are more

students

in local colleges than

foreign

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in foreign

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universities.