Band 6+: WRITING TASK 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The bar and line chart below shows average monthly temperatures and bathing suit sales in New York for the first 6 months of 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words

The graphic gives information about the average temperature in New York and also revenue generated from sales of bathing suits. All of the information is from the first half of 2012.

Not surprisingly we can see that the coldest months were those in winter with the temperature rising steadily throughout spring and into summer. However, the warmer weather does not seem to correlate with an increase in bathing suit sales.

Revenue from bathing suit sales started fairly strong at the beginning of the period and rose steadily over the first three months from ten to fifteen million dollars. After this sales shot up with revenue doubling in April. Then sales decreased dramatically over May and June.

Overall, we can see that most people in New York seem to prefer buying a bathing suit in the winter and spring months and, contrary perhaps to expectations, bathing suit sales were relatively poor in the summer.