IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 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. Write at least 150 words.

The two line graphs illustrate the percentage of people in one country owning 3 different electrical appliances

while

comparing the number of weekly

hours

dedicated to housework between the years 1920 and 2019.

Overall

, the ownership of electric devices tends to increase over the years

while

the

hours

people dedicate to clean households decrease. It can be seen that the main trend is the general raise of electrical tools.

However

, the one that quickly raised was the refrigerator owned only by

a

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10% of the population in 1920 and sharply reached 100% in 1980. There was a similar growth with the vacuum cleaner

where

Correct word choice

which

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in 1920 had a 40% of owners and peaked at 100% in the year 2000. The

last

gadget is the washing machine

that

Correct pronoun usage

which

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over the years, has increased

around

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by around

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40% reaching the 70% of citizens in 2019.

On the other hand

, the graph that shows the

hours

per week dedicated to cleaning the house has gradually decreased.

It is clear that

in 1920 citizens were dedicating more

hours

to housework reaching an average of 50

hours

per week. Compared to the year 1960, housework dropped to 20 weekly

hours

and gradually decreased to 10

hours

per week in 2019.