WRITING TASK 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graph below shows the number of shops that closed and the number of new shops that opened in one country between 2011 and 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

A glance at the line graph depicts a nation's data on the market's closures and

openings

in a specific range of time which is from 2011 to 2018.

Overall

, it is clear from the illustrated information that there was a fluctuation in the proportion of both opened and closed shops in the country. In terms of closed markets, there was a constant trend between 2011 and 2014 with around 6000 and 7000.

However

, the increase in

openings

in 2014 comes with a regressive decrease in closures with the peak at about 1000 closed shops. As for the

openings

, the peak was in 2012 with exactly 4000.

Moreover

, there was a rapid growth pattern between 2012 and 2014 can be estimated to be 2000.

Next,

there was another drop in 2015 corresponds to the deterioration in the number of closures as well.

To sum up

, closed shops had more dramatic changes

while

the

openings

were slightly fluctuating in that period of time.