The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time doing housework and households in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time doing housework and households in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The charts provide information about the proportion of houses that had electrical appliances and how long people spent their time doing housework in one country for a century. Out of the three devices-washing
machine
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, refrigerator, and
vacuum
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cleaner- refrigerator had the lowest percentage in 1920 at 0%, but it had the most visible growth among the other two and ended up being 100% in 1980 and remained at that rate until 2019. The washing machine started at 40% in 1920 and experienced a slight decrease from 70% in 1960 to 65% in 1980, but bounced back to 75% in 2019. The vacuum cleaner stood at 30% in 1920
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increased to 100% in 2000 and stayed the same in 2019. The second chart shows a downward trend over the period, from 50
hours
in 1920 to 15
hours
in 1980, but for the next 20 years, it remained the same before falling slightly to around 11
hours
in 2019. In conclusion, more families used gadgets throughout the period;
thus
, the number of
hours
they had to spend doing house chores
also
dropped.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words hours with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "remained" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "slight" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • household appliances
  • time-efficient
  • labour-saving devices
  • technological innovations
  • ownership rate
  • housework chores
  • domestic workload
  • automation
  • advancements
  • trend analysis
  • societal shifts
  • economic impact
  • durability
  • lifespan of appliances
  • maintenance
  • historical comparison
  • time allocation
  • drudgery reduction
  • energy consumption
  • disruption in trends
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