WRITING TASK 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The bar chart illustrates the proportion of average weekly expenditure by families in one county in two years which are 1968 and 2018.

Overall

,

it is clear that

people mostly spent on diet in the past.

However

, in the next 50 years, the population in

this

country use their money for entertainment, housing and food.

To begin

with, the fraction of food in 1968 occupied 35% followed by housing and clothes which had the same percentage at 10%. Energy resources, with well over 5%, were at the

last

place in 1968.

Furthermore

, other spending

such

as leisure, transport, personal matters and household were approximately 8%.

Additionally

, in 2018, A dramatic drop was seen in food by almost 20% and it was overcome by spending on leisure and housing.

Besides

, Recreation, Housing and Transport had the upward trajectory of the expenditure and it shot up to 22%, 19% and 14% respectively. Household goods were the only ones that stayed at their old level.

In contrast

, power, clothing and private goods had a downward trend.