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The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The chart is about a particular country which shows how weekly
income
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 is spent by families in the years 1968 and 2018. In 1968, families spent 35% of their weekly
income
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 on food, which is, in fact, the highest expenditure over 50 years.
However
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, we can see that in 1968 and 2018 the least amount of money is spent on fuel and power.
Furthermore
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, in 2018 nearly 23% of
income
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 is used for leisure. It can be noticed that an equal percentage of grants is spent on buying household
goods
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. In 2015, fuel and power
as well as
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 personal
goods
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 shared equal expenditure.
Overall
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, in 1968 families spent a nearly equal amount of their weekly
income
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 on household
goods
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, personal
goods
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 and transport.

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Common mistake: Your writing should be 150-250 words.
Vocabulary: Rephrase your introduction. Words match: 67%.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words income, goods with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Only 6 basic words for charts were used.
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Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "nearly" was used 2 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • compare
  • spending patterns
  • allocated
  • weekly income
  • significant changes
  • essential items
  • food
  • housing
  • clothing
  • leisure
  • communication
  • increase
  • decrease
  • twofold rise
  • substantial increase
  • quadrupling
  • declined
  • food and drink
  • slight increase
  • prioritizing
  • necessities
  • transitioned
  • portio
  • non-essential items
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