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.

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.
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The graphs show a variety of working
adults
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adults'
adult's
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activities
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and
proportion
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the proportion
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of
time
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for each
activity
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in 1958 and 2008.
Overall
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, the main
activities
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in both years remained steady the biggest, including working and sleeping groups.
Otherwise
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the
percentage
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of
"going
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the "going
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out" group decreased dramatically,
while
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part of “travel to work” went up. The most obvious trend in the charts is that the working and sleeping
activities
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have the biggest part. Despite slightly increasing
time
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spent on working
activity
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from 33% in 1958 to 42% in 2008, it is still the main part of pie charts. Decreasing
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percentage
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the percentage
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of
time
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for sleeping
activity
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doesn’t
changed
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change
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the main trend, and
this
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group is still one of the biggest.
On the other hand
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, the proportion of ‘going out’
activity
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fell a little. It declined by 6% from 1958 to 2008,
Percentage
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of
time
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for ‘travel to work’ grew slightly from 2 in 1958 to 8 in 2008. To summarise, the proportion of
time
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adults
spent
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spend
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on
variety
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a variety
show examples
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activities
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of activities
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doesn’t
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hasn’t
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changed a lot through the years. The
percentage
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of
time
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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.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words activities, time, activity, percentage with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "show" in your introduction.
Vocabulary: The word "charts" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "changed" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 4 times.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "slightly" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • pie chart
  • percentage
  • activities
  • working adults
  • summarise
  • report
  • main features
  • comparisons
  • relevant
  • time spent
  • work-related
  • leisure
  • personal care
  • travel
  • noticeable trends
  • over a period
  • devoted
  • significant changes
  • contrast
  • compare
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