Band 5+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The two bar charts below show the proportion of 14-to 16-year-old students studying a foreign language in an English speaking country, and the top three foreign languages. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The bar charts describe the ratio of students from 14 to 16 years old studying a foreign language in an English speaking nation, and the top three oversea languages respectively.

Either in 1984 or in 2007, girl foreign language learners were more than boys. Spanish was the least interested oversea lanuguage in 1984 by students, although proportion of Spanish learners increased in 2007, it remained the last position.

Before, foreign lanuage learners of boys declined to under 30 percent in 2007, there were 30 percent in 1984. Although, girls studied oversea languages in 1984 with almost 50 percent, the percentage declined to 40 percent in 2007.

Among three most popular foreign languages, French led the chart in both years with 50 percent in 1984. People started being drawn to German in 2007, the percentage of learners rose from 20 in 1984 to over 20 in 2007. Proportions of Spanish learners were the lowest in both years compared to the other two languages, however, it increased to 10 percent in 2007.