Band 6+: The figure below gives information about student taking foreign languages. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart provides information about how the quantity of undergraduates who learn foreign languages changed in the last 10 years .

Overall, the number of students who learn French and Spanish growth significantly, whereas the reverse was true for Italian and German .

Focusing on increases , the number of French learners rose gradually to 100 in the first five years , and then it continued it is upward trend in the next five years to reach a peak at almost 150 students. The figure for Spanish was three times as low as the figure French. The number of undergraduates who study spanish remaim stable and composed only 20.

By contrast , the figure for italian declined twofold from the beginning to the end of the decade , and accounted only 10 students . There was slightly reduction in the number of German learners , from 50 to 40 by the last 10 years.