Band 6+: The graph below gives information about Dubai gold sales in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

“The line graph highlights how gold sales in Dubai changed in the given years. Units are measured in dirhams.

It is also obvious that the sales of gold in Dubai remained almost unchanged in an annual year. However, gold sales were the highest in March, whereas July and September were the lowest trend in the graph.

In January, the sales of gold stood at 200 million dirhams before they increased to about 230 million dirhams in February. After that, the gold sales increased significantly to 350 million dirhams, which was the highest figure in the whole graph. In the next four months, the figure for the gold went down stable from 350 million dirhams to just above 100 million dirhams. At this point, the trend of gold sales rose slightly to more than 200 million dirhams in August. Afterwards, the gold sales dropped to their previous position in September. Clearly, the gold sales were the same figure both in July and September, which were the lowest figures in the given graph. And then, the sales of gold remained steadily at 170 million dirhams in October. After this, the sales of gold remained almost unchanged over the last two months of 2002′