The graph below gives information about how much people in the United States and the United Kingdom spend on petrol. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph below gives information about how much people in the United States and the United Kingdom spend on petrol.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The line graph illustrates the proportion of
income
which is spent on
petrol
by residents in the United States and the United Kingdom
Overall
, most people in The United States spend more on
petrol
than in the UK. In the
USA
the poorest spent most of their
income
to pay fuel bills,
while
the reverse was true for the richest. In detail, in the
USA
, the poorest people spend 4% of their
income
to pay the
petrol
bill which is twice as much as of proportions spent on
petrol
by the richest.
While
in the middle-
income
in the
USA
, they spent around 4% to 5% on transport. In terms of the UK, the opposite trend with the
USA
is that the poor spent more than 5% of their total
income
on
petrol
.
This
is followed by the middle-
income
and richest group which
was
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spent only 5% to 4% and 4% to 2.5% on
petrol
respectively.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
Vocabulary: Replace the words income, petrol, usa with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Only 5 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • expenditures
  • disparities
  • evolved
  • fluctuations
  • stabilization
  • significant gap
  • trends
  • economic conditions
  • vehicular technology
  • public transportation
  • summarise
  • comparison
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