You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The pie charts below show the percentage of time working adults spent on different activities in a particular country in 1958 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant You should write at least 150 words.

The graphs show a variety of working

adults

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adults'

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activities

and

proportion

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the proportion

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of

time

for each

activity

in 1958 and 2008.

Overall

, the main

activities

in both years remained steady the biggest, including working and sleeping groups.

Otherwise

the

percentage

of

"going

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the "going

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out" group decreased dramatically,

while

part of “travel to work” went up. The most obvious trend in the charts is that the working and sleeping

activities

have the biggest part. Despite slightly increasing

time

spent on working

activity

from 33% in 1958 to 42% in 2008, it is still the main part of pie charts. Decreasing

percentage

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the percentage

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of

time

for sleeping

activity

doesn’t

changed

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change

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the main trend, and

this

group is still one of the biggest.

On the other hand

, the proportion of ‘going out’

activity

fell a little. It declined by 6% from 1958 to 2008,

Percentage

of

time

for ‘travel to work’ grew slightly from 2 in 1958 to 8 in 2008. To summarise, the proportion of

time

adults

spent

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spend

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on

variety

Correct article usage

a variety

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activities

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of activities

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doesn’t

Verb problem

hasn’t

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changed a lot through the years. The

percentage

of

time

working adults spent on going out and

travel

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travelling

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to work

is

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apply

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changed gradually from 1958 to 2008.