The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The tables illustrate how much money was spent on
coffee
at a fair price and bananas
in five
states in Europe in the years
1999 and 2004.
Overall
, it can be seen that the finances, spent on caffeine drinks and bananas
went up in those five
years
, except for Denmark
and Sweden, which invested less in bananas
in 2004. In general, Switzerland was the major buyer of bananas
in both years
. Meanwhile, Denmark
spent more money than any other listed country for Fairtrade-labelled coffee
in 1999 and the UK replaced it in 2004th.
In 1999 Denmark
spent 1.8 million
euros
on coffee
at a fair price, a sum that reached 2 million
in 2004. However
, in the latter year, the United Kingdom gave 20 million
euros
and became the biggest Fairtrade-labeled coffee
buyer among those five
countries.
Switzerland purchased bananas
for 15 million
in 1999 and jumped to 47 million
euros
after five
years
. There was a slight decline in the investments regarding this
fruit in Denmark
in Sweden, dropping from around 2 to about 1 million
euros
for both of them.Submitted by delulcheva on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words coffee, bananas, five, years, denmark, million, euros with synonyms.
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