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The table below shows the change in number of people engaged in various physical activities between the years 2001-2009 in Australia (in million people). Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table below shows the change in number of people engaged in various physical activities between the years 2001-2009 in Australia (in million people). Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The given table illustrates the
number
 of
people
 who joined various workouts in Australia and how much it changed from 2001 to 2009. Units are measured in million
people
 and percentages (the change).
Overall
, it can clearly be seen that swimming is a
sport
 that becomes a favourite over time
although
 the
number
 of
people
 engaged experienced a fluctuation.
Moreover
, the trend for the other three sports (running, aerobics, and tennis) rose throughout the given period,
while
people
 who like cycling decreased. In terms of the
sport
 which
people
 enjoyed the most, the
number
 of
people
 who do swimming started at 3.7 in the first year as we can see in the second column
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 the sixth row.
Thereafter
, the
number
 witnessed a little growth to 3.8 in 2005 (look at the third column).
However
, in the
last
 period, the total of
people
 who like to swim went down by 0.5. From
this
 fluctuation, the change of
people
 engaged in swimming degraded 10% in total. Regarding the other types of physical activities, running, aerobics and tennis had
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 same trend,
while
 cycling is the one
sport
 in which the
number
 of
people
 engaged declined. In 2001, running, aerobics and tennis stood at 1.4, 1.5, and 1, respectively. In the following years, they only grew a little by around 0.1-0.5.
In contrast
, the
number
 of
people
 engaged in cycling began at 4.5 before going down to 3.1 in 2005.
Then
 the
number
 rose by 0.5 in 2009. If we look closer
to
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 the table, we
can
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know that the
sport
 which has the biggest change in trend is running at 156%.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
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Common mistake: Your writing should be 150-250 words.
Vocabulary: Replace the words number, people, sport with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "table" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "give" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "changed" was used 4 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 5 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 3 times.
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