The following two pie charts give the results of a survey into the popularity of various leisure activities among European adults in 1985 and 1995. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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given
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pie charts show below the proportion of popularities of different leisure
activities
among
adults
over a period of 10 years from 1985 to 1995. Looking at
an
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overall
structure, it is readily apparent that watching
TV
played the most dominant role in recreation for both years. In terms of individual years, leisure
activities
in 1985 were more experienced in eating out, except for watching
TV
,
while
free time
activities
among
adults
in 1995
were prevailed
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prevailed
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playing
computer
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the computer
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. It can be perceived
with
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from
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these statistics new technological hobbies
were
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affected European
people
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people's
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lifestyle until 1995. Advancing watching
TV
with the highest indication of all
activities
, 32%, among European
adults
in 1985, eating out was demonstrated to the second position with a proportion of 23 per cent.
This
was chased by talking friends and family based on 21% and 18%, respectively. In the other year, meantime,
this
was
identical
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an identical
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condition for watching
TV
by
percentage
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the percentage
a percentage
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of 30. Playing computer games depicted substantial popularity among males and
females’
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females
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adults
in Europe by 27%. The third one was allocated to talking with friends, representing 26%. Talking with the family has dropped rapidly with respect to 1985 to somewhere in the survey of 7%, after the rank of eating out by 8% among the
adults
who enjoyed lower
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item over the period, too.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words activities, adults, tv with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "give" in your introduction.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Pie charts
  • Leisure activities
  • European adults
  • Survey results
  • Popularity
  • Comparison
  • Ten-year period
  • Walking
  • Cycling
  • Increase/Decrease
  • Percentage
  • Popularity shift
  • Team sports
  • Solitary activities
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