WRITING TASK 1

The chart shows the number of shops that closed and the number of new shops opening in a country from 2011 to 2018.

The given line graph illustrates information about the quantity of closures and openings from 2011 to 2018.

Overall, what stands out from the graph is that both figures witnessed a downward trend during the period. Besides, the number of shops that closed experienced the biggest change over 8 years.

In 2011, the quantity of shops that closed and opened were 6.500 and 8.500, respectively. In the next year, the number of shop openings shrunk sharply to 4.000 and then recorded a considerable rise to around 6.000 in 2014. A similar pattern was seen in the figure for shop closures which recorded a minimal decline by over 500 and the peak at about 7.000 in 2013 before reaching nearly the same level as openings in 2014.

Regarding the line graph, the number of shops that closed plummeted from nearly 6.500 to about 6000 in 2015 before seeing significant growth to more than 6.000 in the next 3 years. In addition, after going down gradually by nearly 2.000 the figure for openings remained unchanged in the next year and then dropped to 3.000 in 2018.

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