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The table below shows how the UK unemployed spent their time last year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table below shows how the UK unemployed spent their time last year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The table above illustrates the daily activities done by unoccupied people in
United
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the United
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 Kingdom
last
 year.
Overall
, the majority of jobless
women
 spent their day
by
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doing household chores,
while
 the
men
’s activities were more varied,
such
 as job hunting and shopping in the morning,
then
 enjoying TV and gardening in the
afternoon
.
To begin
 with, 22%
men
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of men
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 allocated their morning period to find job vacancies. Followed by 20% of them invested
to shop
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in shopping
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 and 19% of them concentrated
in
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on
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 housework.
While
 in the
afternoon
, more than half of the unemployed
men
 spent
this
 period
to do
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doing
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 their hobbies,
for instance
, gardening, watching
TV’s
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TV
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 programs, walking, etc. As for the
women
, both morning and
afternoon
, the majority (49% in the morning and 21% in the
afternoon
) of them allocated their time to finish their house tasks.
Then
, 26%
women
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of women
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were
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went
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 shopping in the morning,
while
the
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apply
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17%
others
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of others
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 did it in the evening.
To sum up
, the table shows the percentage of unemployed
men
 and
women
 in
United
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the United
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 Kingdom
last
 year doing various activities to finish their whole day. Most of the
women
 concentrated
in
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on
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 finishing their household tasks,
while
 the
men
 gave their time to find job vacancies in the morning
then
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and then
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 did their hobbies in the evening.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "last, while".
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Basic structure: Change the second paragraph.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words women, afternoon, men with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Only 5 basic words for charts were used.
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Vocabulary: The word "table" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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