You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graph below shows the average monthly change in the prices of three metals during 2014. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The graph below shows the average monthly change in the prices of three metals during 2014.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.
The line graph presents variations in
prices
of three metals from January to December 2014. It can be observed that all three metals went through the pattern that the
prices
increased continuously in the first half of the year, followed by a decrease lasting several months and
finally
a rise until the end of the year. In the first two months of 2014, the
price
of copper had the fastest increasing rate (6% and 4%).
However
,
this
was surpassed by the growing rate of
price
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the price
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of zinc after March. The first metal that saw a slight recession around 0.5% of its
price
was copper in May.
While in
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the next month, the other two metals
also
witnessed
downfall
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in
prices
, with nickel reaching the lowest point of -
3
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-3
%. The decrease of
prices
of nickel and zinc continued from June to October
whereas
the
price
of copper only suffered decreasing for two months and started to rise again from July at a level of 1%.
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Vocabulary: The word "rise" was used 2 times.

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