The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019. 

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The line graphs given illustrated the number of households that had electronic tools in percentages and the time spent on chores each week in a certain nation from 1920 to 2019.
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, the amount of homes with appliances generally increased as time goes. Aside from washing machines that showed a steady upward trend, the other two appliances (
refrigerators
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and vacuum cleaners) dramatically increased before steadying up at some point. Meanwhile, the amount of time that people spent on housework decreased throughout the years. The number of homes with washing machines steadily increased from 1920 to 2019 and only dropped once in 1980
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about 5%. A more dramatic increase can be seen for
refrigerators
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and vacuum cleaners which rose constantly up to the 1960 for
refrigerators
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and the 1980 for vacuum cleaners. After the year 2000, every household in
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country had the two appliances mentioned. The sharpest increase happened to
refrigerators
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, starting from 0% in 1920 which rose to just above 50% in 1920 and
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nearly doubled to 90% in 1960. The total amount of hours that people spent doing chores in their houses generally decreased. It decreased a lot more up to 1960
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before it started to stagnate from 1980 at just above 10%.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words refrigerators with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "decreased" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 5 times.
Vocabulary: The word "dramatically" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • household appliances
  • time-efficient
  • labour-saving devices
  • technological innovations
  • ownership rate
  • housework chores
  • domestic workload
  • automation
  • advancements
  • trend analysis
  • societal shifts
  • economic impact
  • durability
  • lifespan of appliances
  • maintenance
  • historical comparison
  • time allocation
  • drudgery reduction
  • energy consumption
  • disruption in trends
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