IELTS Writing Task 1: Academic reports and General Training letters

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing about the meeting room our neighbourhood association booked last Saturday. We used it for a planning session for our spring clean-up, and the space was large enough for all twelve volunteers. Your receptionist also helped us arrange the tables before people arrived.

Unfortunately, we could not connect our laptop to the projector because the room did not have the right cable. The map we had prepared was important to the discussion, so we spent the first twenty minutes trying to display it before asking everyone to look at it on their phones. Several people found the smaller screen difficult to read.

Could you keep a labelled set of adapters in the room and list the available connections in the booking confirmation? This would allow visitors to bring any additional equipment they need. I would be happy to share the details of the adapter that would have worked with our laptop.

Yours faithfully,
Jordan Lee

The chart compares the proportions of workers who travelled to work by bus, bicycle or car in a town in 2015 and 2025.

Overall, the car remained the most common mode in both years, although its share fell substantially. Meanwhile, bus travel and cycling both became more common, and together they accounted for a majority of commuters in 2025.

In 2015, 65% of workers travelled by car, compared with 25% by bus and just 10% by bicycle. Over the following decade, the proportion driving fell by 20 percentage points to 45%. The gap between car and bus use consequently narrowed from 40 percentage points to just 10.

Bus use increased from 25% to 35%, while cycling doubled from 10% to 20%. Although the two modes gained the same number of percentage points, bicycle use grew faster relative to its starting level. By 2025, the two modes together represented 55% of journeys, compared with 35% in 2015.