The chart below shows 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 chart below shows 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 bar chart illustrates the information about the number of mature people attending
in
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6 sports, including tennis, basketball,
cricket
, golf, swimming, football and rugby in the
years
1997 and 2017.
Overall
, all the
sport
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categories
which
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in which
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adults
participating rise
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participated rose
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from 1997 to 2017, except
cricket
is
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dropped, and swimming remained stable. Tennis was the most selected by adults,
whist
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basketball and
cricket
were
least
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. In 2019, 50,000 adults
joining
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in tennis before increasing to around 55,000. In terms of golf,
this
had the smallest change between 2
years
which grew
approximately
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2,000 from around 30,000 people in 1997,
while
football and rugby seem the largest increase from just above 30,000 to slightly below 50,000.
In addition
, basketball players in 2017
was
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around 20,000 which was 2 times greater than in 1997.
However
,
cricket
had
the
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decrease trend that significantly dropped from 25,000 to 8,000 within 20
years
.
On the other hand
, 35,000 mature people preferred
to
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swimming which remained unaltered in these 2
years
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words cricket, years with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "remained" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 3 times.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • participation rate
  • increase/decrease in numbers
  • trend
  • decade
  • relatively stable
  • major sports
  • potential reasons
  • contributing factors
  • public interest
  • comparison
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