The graph below shows the hours of teaching per year done by each teacher in four different countries in 2001. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart compares the number of teaching
hours
per year among teachers in four different countries in 2001.
Overall
, we can see in the graph that the
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in teaching upper secondary dominated other categories.
While
the lower secondary had various time
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in each country, the
hours
spend
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in primary education contributed the least. In the USA, the average
hours
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by teachers in
upper
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the upper
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secondary
level
stood the highest at approximately 1100
hours
,
then
followed closely by the lower secondary around 1050
hours
. As for the primary
level
, the time
spend
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was nearly 900
hours
.
In contrast
, in Ireland, the lower secondary surpassed both
upper
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the upper
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secondary and primary
level
with
the
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total of 800
hours
of teaching.
In addition
to the upper secondary and primary
level
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, the number of
hours
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were
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was
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nearly 700
hours
and 600
hours
, respectively. As for the remaining countries, both Japan and Spain had the exact
hours
in primary and lower secondary education with
the
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a
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total of 600
hours
in each
level
of study.
For the
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hours
spend
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in upper secondary in Japan
was
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were
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just over 650
hours
. Compared to the
hours
spend
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spent
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in Spain which was nearly a thousand, there is a huge gap in
this
category between both countries.
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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
Vocabulary: Replace the words hours, level with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "compares" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "nearly" was used 3 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • annual hours of teaching
  • teaching workload
  • educational systems
  • teacher-student ratio
  • significantly
  • slightly
  • noticeably
  • gap
  • highest/lowest number of hours
  • compare
  • contrast
  • reflect
  • variations
  • distribution of teaching hours
  • average
  • respectively
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