The chart below shows the percentage of the day working adults spent doing different activities in a particular country in 1958 and in 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The pie charts illustrate the average percentage of an employed person’s
day
spent doing different activities in 1958 and 2008, in a particular country.
Overall
, employed people
in this
particular country spent the most amount of time
in a day
, in both 1958 and 2008, at work
. Furthermore
, there was an inverse relationship between working and sleeping over the 50 year
period.
In 1958, working Add a hyphen
50-year
people
in this
country spent one-third of their day
at work
, followed by just under one-third of their day
sleeping. Going out with friends or family took up the next largest portion of time
in a day
, at 19%. Meanwhile, travelling to work
was the activity that took up the least percentage of time
in someone’s day
.
Fifty years later, the percentage of a day
that people
spent at work
increased to 42%, while
the figure for sleeping had dropped to 25%. Less time
was spent going out with family and friends (6%), but more time
was allocated to relaxing at home (13%). In addition
, the figure for the portion of day
that Add an article
the day
a day
people
spent travelling to work
quadrupled to 8% over the period.Submitted by Mrjit147 on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words day, people, time, work with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "percentage" in your introduction.
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Vocabulary: The word "figure" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 3 times.
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