The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spending by a particular UK school in ‎‎1981, 1991 and 2001. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main ‎features, and make comparisons where relevant.‎

The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spending by a particular UK school in ‎‎1981, 1991 and 2001. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main ‎features, and make comparisons where relevant.‎
IELTS Writing Task Chart for The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spending by a particular UK school in ‎‎1981, 1991 and 2001. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main ‎features, and make comparisons where relevant.‎
The pie charts illustrate how the yearly budget of a school in England was dedicated to ‎various expenditures in 1981, 1991, and 2001.
Overall
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, the largest portion of spending is for staff salaries, and the insurance expenses have ‎consistently increased,
while
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spending on
resources
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and furniture
and
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, and
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equipment has ‎fluctuated. Considering human
resources
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, paying staff takes up the majority of the budget, with teacher ‎salaries dominating
this
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category, increasing
initially
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from 40% in 1981 to 50% in 1991 before ‎declining to 45% in the next decade.
However
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, in each ten-year period, a smaller proportion ‎of money was allocated to other staff pay, falling from 28% in 1981 to 15% in 2001. In terms of other expenditures, in 1981, the spending on
resources
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was as much as the ‎furniture and equipment, at 15%. In the next decade, the figure for the
resources
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spending ‎has risen to 20%, before falling to 9% in 2001,
while
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furniture and equipment expenses ‎experienced a reversed trend, decreasing to only 5% in 1991, it
then
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saw a sharp rise in 2001, ‎reaching 23%. Insurance was the lowest cost in 1981, at only 2%, and has increased fourfold ‎by 2001.‎

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
Vocabulary: Replace the words resources with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "fall" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • spend
  • spending
  • money
  • cost
  • share
  • portion
  • percentage
  • category
  • total
  • largest
  • smallest
  • rise
  • increase
  • grow
  • fall
  • decrease
  • drop
  • stay the same
  • remain
  • change
  • compare
  • comparison
  • year
  • 1981
  • 1991
  • 2001
  • before
  • after
  • overall
  • pattern
  • note
  • describe
  • identify
  • main
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