Cambridge IELTS 10 Writing Test 4 - Task 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The diagrams below show the life cycle of a species of large fish called the salmon.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The diagram given demonstrates the life circle of a salmon.

It can be seen that there are three stages in a salmon's life, beginning with fry and ending with adult salmon.

First, salmon eggs are placed in the upper river, which moves slow, under the reeds and blended in with small stones. After a period of five to six months, eggs hatch and become fries, whose length is around 3 and 8 centimeters. Next, those fries, which are 12 to 15 centimeters long, will turn into smolts after living in the lower part of the river for four years, which has a faster flow than the upper one.

Smolts spend the next five years of their lives in the open sea before growing into adult salmons. Their length at this stage is about 70 to 76 centimeters. These salmons swim back to the upper part of the river, where they were born, to lay eggs of their next generation.