The bar chart below shows the average rainfall for Australia by month for last year. The line shows the average rainfall for Australia by month for the last 40 years. Summarise the information below by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words. Writing Task 1

This

report will describe a bar chart showing the average

rainfall

for

Australia

last

year

by month and the average

rainfall

in

Australia

for the past

forty

years

.

Overall

, it can be seen that

average

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the average

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rainfall

for

Australia

last

year

was a little lower than

average

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the average

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rainfall

in

Australia

for the past

forty

years

, but generally followed the same pattern. The average

rainfall

of the

last

forty

years

in

Australia

decreased from a peak at the beginning of the

year

to lows in the months in the middle of the

year

. Towards the end of the

year

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rainfall

rose again.

Rainfall

data for

last

year

generally followed the same trend as the

last

forty

years

' average.

Although

the general pattern of the two sets of data

are

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is

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similar, there are some differences. The line representing the accumulation of the average

rainfall

from the past

forty

years

begins at around eighty

millimetres

in January and

then

drops sharply to around thirty

millimetres

in April.

Rainfall

then

drops slowly to around thirteen

milimetres

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millimetres

in September and

then

rises again steadily to just under sixty

millimetres

in December. Average

rainfall

for the

last

year

was a little lower than the

forty

-

year

average for most months,

excepting

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March, May, June and November when the

rainfall

was a little heavier. August and October were particularly dry when compared with the

forty

-

year

average, at around five

millimetres

each compared with about fifteen and twenty

millimetres

each respectively for the

forty

-

year

average.