the tables below give information about sales of fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in 5 european countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparision where relevant
The tables illustrate how much coffee and
bananas
were sold in 1999 and 2004 in five areas in
Europe.
Overall
, coffee sales
increased in all countries
while
sales
of bananas
increased in only three countries
. In 2004, the UK sold the most amount of coffee but Switzerland had the highest rate of sales
of bananas
.
The UK had the highest increase from 1.5 million
to 20 million
, followed by Switzerland from 3 million
to 6 million
in 1999 and 2004 while
in other countries
the rate of rise were
less, Denmark and Sweden rose by 0.2 and Belgium increased by 0.7.
Change the verb form
was
According to
the second table, sales
of bananas
in Switzerland grew from 15 million
in 1999 to 47 million
in 2004 while
sales
of
the UK and Belgium rose less significantly with figures reaching 5.5 and 4 respectively. Change preposition
in
On the other hand
, Sweden and Denmark were the only two countries
that fell to 1 and 0.9 million
respectively in 2004.Submitted by kk.1379 on
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words bananas, sales, countries, million with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "tables" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 4 times.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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