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The graph below shows how elderly people in Europe spent their free time between 1980 and 2010. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph below shows how elderly people in Europe spent their free time between 1980 and 2010. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The line graph illustrates the activities elderly people in Europe spent their leisure time in terms of
percentage
 from 1980 to 2010.
Overall
, it was evident that watching
televison
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television
 was consistently popular among other activities from the period of 1980 to 2010.
Although
,
on
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in
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year
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the year
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 2010, Hiking achieved the highest popularity of all time. The activity that had the highest
number
 of older people spending their free time during
1980s
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the 1980s
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 was watching
televison
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television
 with 60%
percentage
. Consistently, it was
popular
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a popular
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 leisure activity all throughout the timeline with 60% to 70% recorded data from 1980 to 2010.
Then
, it was
consequently
 followed by Theatre which had 50% in
percentage
 from the start of
1980s
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, yet its popularity
was
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decreased
as
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by 2010
with
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 only 40% in
number
. Reading and Hiking
activity
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activities
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 were close in
number
,
which
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with
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 Reading
is
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being
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 more popular by 10% compared to the latter. But, during the year 2010 Hiking spikely rose
with
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by
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 80%, which is four times from the year 1980. Meanwhile, Surfing the Internet was the least popular during 1980 with only 5% recorded in
number
.
However
, during 2010 it rose dramatically by almost 5 times with 50% in
percentage
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words percentage, number with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 4 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Elderly population
  • Leisure activities
  • Trends
  • Popularity
  • Steady rise
  • Gradual increase
  • Growing interest
  • Decline
  • Consistent
  • Upward trend
  • Resurgence
  • Comparative analysis
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