IELTS writing task 1, summaries of graphs. Listen to a sample essay and draw a picture; for a better result, watch this video twice. The graph illustrates the quantities of goods transported in the United Kingdom by four different modes of transport between the time period of nineteen seventy four and two thousand and two. Over this span of twenty eight years the quantities of goods transported by road, water, and pipeline have all increased, while the quantity of transported by rail has maintained almost constant, at about forty million tones.