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.

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.
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The bar chart illustrates data about
usage
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the usage
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of
money
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by families in a nation and their weekly salary in two specific
years
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. The general
overall
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is here that there were 8 different kinds of usages which families spent their weekly income on.
However
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, spending on food was the highest average in two
years
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.
According to
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the details of
this
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graph, the
amount
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of
money
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spent on household goods was exactly the same in 2
years
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. Remuneration which was spent on free things has roughly tripled in 50
years
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. In 2018, the
amount
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of
money
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spent on personal belongings and the
amount
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of
money
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spent on fuel and power was the same.
In contrast
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, wages for clothes and shoes have halved in a given 50-year period.
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, the
amount
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of wages spent on public transport has doubled in 50
years
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.
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for 1968, the percentage of wages spent on items other than food varied, all of which accounted for 10 percent of income or less.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words money, years, amount with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 4 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • compare
  • spending patterns
  • allocated
  • weekly income
  • significant changes
  • essential items
  • food
  • housing
  • clothing
  • leisure
  • communication
  • increase
  • decrease
  • twofold rise
  • substantial increase
  • quadrupling
  • declined
  • food and drink
  • slight increase
  • prioritizing
  • necessities
  • transitioned
  • portio
  • non-essential items
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