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 bar chart compares revenues from bathing suits sales in New York during the first half of 2012 while the line plot illustrates how average temperature value varies over the same period.

Overall, there is a constant increase of the revenues during the first months, followed by a significant drop in May and June, while, regarding average temperature, it is possible to see that the slight decrease in February is followed by a constant increase during the other months.

Revenues from bathing suits sales were just 100 thousands of dollars at the beginning of the year and after a small increase in February and March, reaching the value of 150 thousands of dollars, there is an huge jump to almost 300 thousands of dollars in April. During May and June the revenues went down to 80 and 30 thousands of dollars, respectively.

By contrast, average temperature, decreased by 1 degrees in February and then faced a constant growth of almost 10 degrees per month until May, where it reached the value of 60 degrees. The increase in June was less significant, with the average value being equal to 65 degrees.