The chart below shows the number of adults participating in different major sports in one area, in 1997 and 2017. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The graph provides information related to the
number
of adults who practiced some sports in 1997 and 2017, in a particular place.
Overall
, it is essential to highlight that, comparing both years, it is clear that
the quantity of people
who played sports was higher in 2017, except for the number
of participants who practiced cricket, which declined, and those who swam, which was constant figure over that period. Moreover
, the number
of adults who played basketball, football, and rugby grew significantly.
As aforementioned, cricket became less popular: while
in 1997 around 27 thousand
adults practiced it, in 2018, less than 10 thousand
people
played that game. In contrast
, there was a sharp growth in the football and rugby figures, which bore resemblance for those sports: in 1997, approximately 30 thousand
individuals played each of those games, but that number
climbed to almost 50 thousand
people
in 2017. Basketball was a sport that also
had a significant increase on its number
of participants since it was played by less than 10 thousand
persons in 1997, but more than 20 thousand
people
played it in 2017.Submitted by jorgederecho on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words number, people, thousand with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 4 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "significantly" was used 2 times.
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