The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The table chart illustrates the percentage of national consumer expenditure by category in 2002.
Overall
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,
this
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table is sorted by 3 items
such
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as food, clothing, and
leisure
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or education. Food is the most demanding item in Turkey.
In addition
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, clothing is the most popular item in Italy rather than in other countries and the
last
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one is
leisure
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or education which most Swedish
people
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care about. It can be seen that 32.14% of Turkish
people
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tend to spend
money
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on food, drinks, and tobacco and Irish
people
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have the second highest value with 28.19%.
In contrast
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, in Sweden,
this
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value is 15.77%,
although
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in
this
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country, many
people
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pay
money
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to
leisure
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and education by 3.22%. Of course, the lowest value is dedicated to Spain with 1.98% and in Turkey, 4.35% of
people
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prefer to spend
money
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on
leisure
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.
It is clear that
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9.00% of Italian individuals like to pay more attention to their own styles and spend their
money
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on clothing and footwear.
While
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this
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item in Sweden is 5.40%.
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Basic structure: Change the third paragraph.
Vocabulary: Replace the words leisure, people, money with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Only 5 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: The word "table" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the fourth paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • consumer spending
  • items
  • countries
  • food
  • drinks
  • tobacco
  • clothing
  • footwear
  • household goods
  • services
  • leisure
  • education
  • other products
  • comparison
  • highest
  • lowest
  • followed by
  • in all countries
  • various
  • summarise
  • main features
  • relevant
  • information
  • selecting
  • reporting
  • spending
  • table
  • goods
  • data
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