The chart below shows the amount of time that 10 to 15-year-olds spend chatting on the Internet and playing on games consoles on an average school day in the UK. ...
The given bar chart illustrates the average time per school day that
students
spend online texting and playing video Use synonyms
games
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girls
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boys
between 10 and 15 in the UK.
A quick glance at these graphs reveals that Use synonyms
students
tend to play Use synonyms
games
marginally more than chat on the Internet. Use synonyms
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, there is a striking difference between the percentage of Linking Words
boys
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girls
playing on game consoles.
Looking at the details, 30% of Use synonyms
students
spend from 1 to 3 hours per day texting on the Internet. It is noticeable that nearly 70% of Use synonyms
girls
use the Internet as a means of communication, Use synonyms
while
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figure for Linking Words
boys
is only 55%.
The opposite trend can be seen in the percentage of Use synonyms
students
playing video Use synonyms
games
. To be more specific, 85% of Use synonyms
boys
get into the habit of playing video Use synonyms
games
and half of them spend 1 to 3 hours on Use synonyms
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entertainment. Linking Words
By contrast
, there are nearly 50% of Linking Words
girls
that do not involve in Use synonyms
games
console and 35% of female Use synonyms
students
devote less than an hour to Use synonyms
this
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