You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. *Fairtrade: a category of products for which farmers from developing countries have been paid an officially agreed fair price. You should write at least 150 words.
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The tables illustrate Fairtrade's revenue from the sale of labelled
coffee
and bananas in 1999 and 2004 respectively, the data was collected in the countries
of the UK
, Switzerland
, Denmark
, Belgium and Sweden
.
Overall
, the UK
has a significant growth in the sale of coffee
and in the revenue of bananas, Switzerland
made a remarkable increase, while
Sweden
and Denmark
faced a slight decline.
It is obvious that in the market
of selling coffee
, all five countries
' revenues rose, and the sales in the UK
's market
increased from 1.5 million
to 20 million
, which was the biggest growth among the five countries
. Competing for the revenue from Switzerland
's market
of coffee
, it doubled its own sales in 1999, which was 3 million
. In 2004, it became 6 million
. For the three remaining countries
, Denmark
, Belgium and Sweden
, they all increased to less than 1 million
.
Looking at the information on the banana market
, Switzerland
had an incredible increase in sales by a factor of more than three. Observating in a more precise way, it increased from 15 million
to 47 million
euros. Meanwhile, the UK
also
earned an increase, although
it was not as significant as Switzerland
, it grew by a factor of 5.5, from 1 million
euros in 1999. In contrast
, people in Sweden
and Denmark
reduced the number of bananas they bought, therefore
the revenues in the two countries
decreased. Sweden
dropped from 1.8 million
to 1 million
, while
Denmark
fell from 2 million
to 0.9 million
euros.Submitted by jasmine2001tw on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words coffee, countries, uk, switzerland, denmark, sweden, market, million with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "growth" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 6 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "significant" was used 2 times.
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