You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graph shows the number of people taking parts in 4 kinds of sports in a particular region between 1985 and 2005. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The line graph displays how many citizens participated in 4 typical sports in one country over 30

years

.

Overall

, it is evident that there were obvious changes in rugby and tennis, the stability could be seen in two others.

To begin

with, standing at 240, rugby was recorded at the top of the list in 1985;

however

, the number of people playing rugby witnessed a decrease. In the next 30

years

, it dramatically plummeted to 50 people in 2005.

On the contrary

, tennis significantly rocketed from 150 to 200 in the initial 10

years

, followed by a slight rise to 220 participants in 2005.

Furthermore

, basketball and badminton share an identical trend, which is stabling. Beginning with 80 the total number of basketball players was 30 people more than badminton. Over 30

years

,

although

there were minimal reductions from 1985 to 1990, these numbers mostly remained nearly unchanged for the remaining

years

of the observed period.