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 chart illustrates the percentage of students who studied a foreign language between 1964 and 2007. On the one hand, it is widely believed that girls were more interested in studying foreign languages than boys. In 1964, the percentage was 49% for girls compared to 30% for boys. By 2007, there was only a […]