WRITING TASK 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The table below shows how the UK unemployed spent their time last year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.
The diagram illustrates how the people who live in the UK and currently have no
job
spend their free time.
Overall
, the most popular activities
among men
and women
are mostly the same, as well as
the least popular ones. However
, these activities
vary in the morning and in the evening.
In the morning the most common activity among women
is housework with 49%. The next two activities
were shopping and job
hunting with 26% and 16% respectively. In comparison to them, 22% of the men
in the morning were looking for a job
. Although
shopping and housework were not so much behind with only 2% and 3% decrease to the most common activity respectively. Gardening was much more popular among men
. Drinking was the least popular activity among people who were surveyed.
But the numbers for the afternoon activities
are not the same. Watching TV rose in popularity drastically to 14% and 12% for men
and women
respectively. However
, the top 3 stayed the same for women
with the exception that job
hunting was changed with visiting friends and relatives. The two most uncommon activities
among men
and women
were staying in bed and drinkingSubmitted by isakov.iv1 on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words job, activities, men, women with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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