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The chart below shows how the UK unemployed spent their time in the year 1982. Write a report to a university lecturer describing the information below.

The chart below shows how the UK unemployed spent their time in the year 1982. Write a report to a university lecturer describing the information below.
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The table depicts the information about the amount of
time
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 (in percentage) spent by the unemployed British people on several activities
last
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 year.
Overall
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, it can be seen that both
men
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 and
women
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 were busier in the morning than in the afternoon. To start with, it is obvious that both groups spent most of their
time
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 in the morning.
Women
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 were mostly spending their
time
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 at 49% doing some housework,
,
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however
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men
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 spent a significant amount of
time
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 at 22% looking for jobs, with only 2% drinking,
whereas
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women
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 only spent the least of their
time
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 enjoying their beverages at 1%.
On the other hand
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, even though both groups had fewer activities in the afternoon, it seems that
women
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 were busier than
men
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.
Men
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 only allocated 7% of their
time
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 to go shopping,
whereas
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women
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 at 21% spent more money on shopping. Interestingly,
men
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 sometimes spent the least amount of their
time
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 lying in bed at 4%, but there was no woman at all (0%) who took a nap
last
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 year.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "last, whereas".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words time, men, women with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "information" in your introduction.
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Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 3 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • job hunting
  • housework
  • leisure activities
  • job training
  • pursuing hobbies
  • childcare
  • household chores
  • socializing
  • entertainment
  • educational pursuits
  • evening classes
  • demographics
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