The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The first graph displays the percentages of households in a country that owned electrical appliances between 1920 and 2019,
while
the second graph shows how much time the average
household
in that country spent doing housework every week during the same period. Washing machines were the most common of the three electrical appliances in 1920, with ownership reaching 40% of households.
This
number
then
increased to about 75% by 2019, with only a small dip in 1980, Nearly a third of households owned vacuum cleaners in 1920,
Although
the owner climbed steadily, it did not reach 100% until 2019. In comparison, almost no
household
had a refrigerator in 1920.
However
, ownership increased rapidly and by 1980 there was one in every
household
. The amount of time spent doing housework,
in contrast
, first fell significantly from 50 to 15 hours per week per
household
between 1920 and 1980. After that, it experienced only a small drop to just over 10 hours a week in 2019
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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
Vocabulary: Replace the words household with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "graph" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • household appliances
  • time-efficient
  • labour-saving devices
  • technological innovations
  • ownership rate
  • housework chores
  • domestic workload
  • automation
  • advancements
  • trend analysis
  • societal shifts
  • economic impact
  • durability
  • lifespan of appliances
  • maintenance
  • historical comparison
  • time allocation
  • drudgery reduction
  • energy consumption
  • disruption in trends
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