The charts below show the age patterns of malaria sufferers and the health effects of malaria on people in Kenya. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

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Writing Task 1: Anti-Malarial Treatments

The charts below show the age patterns of malaria sufferers and the health effects of malaria on people in Kenya. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Writing Task 1: Anti-Malarial Treatments

The charts below show the age patterns of malaria sufferers and the health effects of malaria on people in Kenya. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Paragraph 1: Chart 1 & Chart 2 Chart 1: How many treatments per person per year? Chart 2: What health problems do malaria sufferers face Overview: Malaria is common & it leads to other health problems.

The diagrams illustrate the number of anti-malarial treatments per person in Kenya according to age, and also the impact that this disease has on these suffers. Kenyans receive roughly between one and two treatments of anti-malarial drugs per year depending on their particular age. Children aged from five to fourteen receive the fewest doses, at just less than one annually. 15 to 29-year olds get slightly more than this, exactly one treatment per year. People aged between 45 and 59 are given an average of two treatments of the medicine each year. People who catch Malaria are prone to several immediate and long term health problems. The most common immediate symptom is limb weakness, which around five percent of people will experience. Partial paralysis and visual impairment are experienced by 2.5 and 2.3 percent of sufferers, respectively. Difficulty speaking is the most common of the long-term effects and just over ten percent of people will have this problem. Overall, it is clear that malaria is a common disease in Kenya and people who contract it are likely to suffer various health problems.

Word count: 182

Questions:

1. What is the purpose of the first sentence?

2. Look at paragraph 2. What is the topic sentence?

3. How many examples do they give in paragraph 2 to support the topic sentence? What are they?

4. What is the topic sentence of paragraph 3?

5. How many examples do they give in paragraph 3 to support the topic sentence? What are they?

6. Do they mention every point from the graph in their essay?

Answers

1. What is the purpose of the first sentence?

--Restate the titles of the two graphs

2. Look at paragraph 2. What is the topic sentence?

-- Kenyans receive roughly between one and two treatments of anti-malarial drugs per year depending on their particular age

3. How many examples do they give in paragraph 2 to support the topic sentence? What are they?

--3 examples: age groups 5-14, 15-29, and 45-59

4. What is the topic sentence of paragraph 3?

-- People who catch Malaria are prone to several immediate and long term health problems

5. How many examples do they give in paragraph 3 to support the topic sentence? What are they?

--4 examples: limb weakness, partial paralysis, visual impairment and difficulty speaking

6. Do they mention every point from the graph in their essay?

--No. Only the significant points.