Some people like to try new things, for example, places to visit and types of food. Other people prefer to keep doing things they are familiar with. Discuss both these attitudes and give your opinion.

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graphs show how ownership of three electrical appliances washing machine, refrigerator and vacuum cleaner and
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of time separated to housework changed from 1920 to 2019. Overall, the proportions of households with electrical appliances rose significantly throughout the period when the number of hours doing housework decreased dramatically. In the
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year of the period, the number of refrigerated households was almost 0%, when in 1940 the figure rose sharply to 55% and in 1980 it continued to grow to 100%
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, when the former had a small fluctuation in 1980 before hitting the peak  of around 75% in 2019, the latter rose stable to 100% in 2000 and remained the same in the
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19 years. During the period from 1920 to 1940, the amount of time spent on household washing machine
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witnessed a sharp decline from 50% to about 30%.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Novelty
  • Routine
  • Comfort zone
  • Risk-taker
  • Risk-averse
  • Enrichment
  • Personal growth
  • Innovation
  • Creativity
  • Stability
  • Tradition
  • Habit
  • Familiarity
  • Personal enrichment
  • Life stages
  • Fulfilling
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