The chart below shows the amount of time that 10 to 15-year-olds spend chatting on the internet and playing on games consoles on an average school day in UK.

The chart below shows the amount of time that 10 to 15-year-olds spend chatting on the internet and playing on games consoles on an average school day in UK.
The bar graph gives information about the percentage of time that school children who are 10 – 15 years old use for communicating and
games
online in the United Kingdom per day. In general, both
boys
and
girls
spending time on the internet for
games
had a higher point than chatting.
In addition
, the amount of time UK school
girls
spent
on
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chatting was higher than
boys
,
by contrast
, the
boys
who played
games
online had a higher proportion than
girls
. It is clearly seen that the number of 10 -15 aged
girls
and
boys
who chat
less
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than an hour were
a
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roughly similar, at around 25%, but the
girls
who played
games
under 60 minutes were about 36% compared with the
boys
at approximately 30%. The ratio of the
boys
playing game consoles over 4 hours on average school day shows a different pattern. It was reported about 55% for
boys
,
whereas
for
girls
was about 15%. Compared with
games
, these
girls
preferred chatting to
boys
, which stood at over 40% and 25% respectively.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words games, boys, girls with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "compared" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 4 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • adolescents
  • chatting online
  • games consoles
  • average school day
  • time allocation
  • social interaction
  • gaming habits
  • internet usage
  • preference
  • daily patterns
  • peak times
  • weekdays
  • weekends
  • gender differences
  • trends
  • implications
  • social skills
  • physical health
  • academic performance
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