IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The line graph compares the fraction of houses using five different technologies in the United States of America over a 4-year period.

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it is clear that

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washing machines were by far the most used type of cutting-edge technology.

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, the percentage of cell phone subscribers rose dramatically over the given period. In 1995, the number of households containing Internet barely reached 10%. At a time when one in five citizens of America had a phone. Computers and DVD players were used in 40% and 25% of U.S. citizens' households respectively. 1996 saw a rise in terms of usage technologies, with the exception of DVD players which received 10% fewer users than in the previous years. Over the following 3 years, computers were rising at a constant rate of nearly 7% a year reaching an enormous 70% by 1999.

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, PCs got overshadowed by mobile phones, which were jumping at an exponential rate, reaching its peak of 75%. Both DVDs and the internet grew at a similar rate until 1998 when connection received a 20% boost.