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[Taha B] Writing Practice Test 1152365

Task 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The graph shows the annual income of languages-related jobs in US dollars in five cities.

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

You should write at least 150 words.

Writing task 1

This bar chart illustrates the annual revenue of interpreter, translator and language teacher jobs in US dollars in Mexico, Dubai, Paris, Munich and Toronto.

Overall, it's clear that Toronto and Munich have the highest incomes in three occupies, while studies done in Mexico shows the lowest revenues by less than 20000$ for each job.

The data collected from Toronto shows that 80000$ are the total of interpretation sector incomes and 65000$ for both translation and language teaching. Munich which is the second ranked city in the mentioned sectors, has a total revenues of 75000$ for interpreters and 65000$ and 60000$ for translators and language teachers respectively.

On the other hand, Dubai and Mexico have the lowest annual incomes. In fact, Interpretation and language teaching sectors contribute with 60000$ in Dubai incomes and 10000$ less for translation. Besides, Mexico stays in the bottom of this study with almost 18000$ for the three studied jobs.

Task 2

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Write about the following topic.

In some countries, online shopping is replacing shopping in stores. Do you think it is a positive or negative development?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

You should write at least 250 words.

Nowadays, online shopping is appearing over stores shopping in some societies.

As there are some drawbacks people complaints about, many benefits are generated from this trend.

To start with, online shopping is based on buying items through the internet using their bank card information. Even though, banks are always trying to ensure and develope online security systems, cyber attacks and stoling card information are daily increasing. Therefore, hackers will use cards information for their own purpose, and even for illegal operations, namely; terrorism, organ and weapon trades. In addition, outside shopping is a way to hang out with friends and building a strong social relationships. However, these benefits had disappeared by using online shopping. Hence, people get more lazy, isolated and unsocial.

On the other side, online shopping has many advantages including saving time. In other words, people are getting more busy in work and life requirements, so they don't have time to go shopping in malls and markets. For this reason, they tend to buy items online. Moreover, most of online shopping platforms add customers' reviews for each item. As a result, new clients have the opportunity to obtain a general idea about the quality and efficency of exposed products. Consequently, companies will try to perfect their products' quality and supply good items. Last but not least, as technology is developping, new generations are getting familiar with the internet and artificial intelligence. That's why online shopping is more suitable for them and goes with their behaviours.

To sum up, despite drawbacks and benefits, online shopping is becoming much more trendy and replacing markets and stores shopping.

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