Academic Writing - Model Answer (Task 1)

The table provides information on how many people watch four different sports on television in four countries.

Tennis is popular in the USA with 7 million views. The other three countries have an audience ranging from 6.1 to 6.6 million. Once again, Americans enjoy watching golf on television (11.2 million views) the most. Australia, Canada and the UK have considerably less viewership, that is, below 5 million each. 6.4 million fans watch motor racing in the UK, followed by 3.7 million in Australia. The USA and Canada have extremely low amounts of viewership, 1.5 million and 1.1 million respectively. Finally, 5.5 million Americans are into watching athletics on TV, while 1 million less British fans enjoy this sport. Less than 4 million Canadians watch athletics on TV while 3 million do so in Australia.

Taking the data into consideration, we can conclude that Americans enjoy watching these sports on TV the most (25.2 million) while the total viewing figures for Canada stand at 14.5 million. Tennis is by far the most favored sport to watch on TV (25.9 million views) while motor racing is not that popular (12.7 million views).

Question taken from Get Ready for IELTS Writing p.13