IELTS TASK 01

Task 1: The table shows the amount of money given in aid of technology of developing countries by charities in the US, EU and other countries from 2006 to 2010.

The given table highlights the data about how much money was donated to technology of developing country in the period from 2006 to 2010, by US, EU and other countries charities. Overall, the donation of US was substantially higher than that from EU and the rest. And the total aid was becoming higher and higher throughout the whole period.

Looking at the details, there was a considerable increase in the total aid, from 15.7 billion dollars in 2006 to 20.4 billion dollars in 2008 before reaching a peak of 30 billion dollars in 2010. US charities occupied most of this money, with a sharp rise from 9.7 billion dollars in 2006 to 22.7 billion dollars in 2010, which was remarkably higher than EU but enormously greater than the other countries.

As the table shown, the figure for US experienced a fluctuation during the four-year period. In 2006, 3.3 billion dollars was donated, this number slowly rose to 3.8 billion dollars in 2008, before increasing to 4.0 billion dollars in 2010. Charities in other countries donated the least amount of money, from 2.7 billion dollars to just over 3 billion dollars at the end of the period.