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 the data about people's
spendings
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spending
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during a week in 1968 and 2018.
According to
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the scheme, it's simple to highlight 8 the most popular categories for spending money,
such
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as
food
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, clothes
and
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apply
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etc. In
this
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essay, I would like to present differences between
2
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the 2
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years, by comparing information about, for what purpose individuals expand their income for a week. In 1968 the major part of people's income was spent on
food
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(35%), it was the highest percentage,
while
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the
least
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lowest
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percent
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was fuel and power only 7%.
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Also
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Also,
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10% of all weekly income was spent on housing and clothing. Entertainment
wasn't be
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really popular too because 8 % of all
week
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weeks
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spendings
was
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were
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spent on it But in comparison with 2018,
according to
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the data we can see enormous
changings
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changes
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.
For instance
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, the highest
decreasing
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decrease
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was in
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food
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the food
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category 18%. At the same time the highest
increasing
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increase
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was in
leisure
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the leisure
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sphere from 8% to 22%, fuel and power stayed exactly the same like
household
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the household
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category
To sum up
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, I can say that the most popular field in 1968 was
food
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35% and one of the least popular
sphere
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was entertainment 8%.
However
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in
2018
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2018,
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all data were changed, and in
this
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period of time leisure activities became in great request (23%),
while
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food
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the food
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category lost
their
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its
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population and had only 17%
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "according to, while".
Basic structure: Change the third paragraph.
Vocabulary: Replace the words food with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "data" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third 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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