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The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019.

The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019.
The line graph illustrates how the ownership of electrical appliances and the
time
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 spent on
housework
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 changed in one country from 1920 to 2019.
Overall
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, more and more households owned electrical appliances over
time
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,
while
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 the amount of
housework
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 decreased greatly. Refrigerators and
vacuum
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 cleaners became very common, and people spent much less
time
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 doing
housework
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. In 1920, only 40% of households had a washing machine and about 30% had a
vacuum
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 cleaner,
while
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 no one owned a refrigerator. By 1960, the percentage of homes with refrigerators increased sharply to around 90%, and both washing machines and
vacuum
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 cleaners were owned by around 70% of households. From 1980 to 2019, refrigerators and
vacuum
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 cleaners were almost in every home,
while
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 washing machines rose slowly to about 75%. At the same
time
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, the number of
hours
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 spent on
housework
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 per week fell dramatically. It went down from 50
hours
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 in 1920 to about 20
hours
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 in 1960, and
then
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 to only 10
hours
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 in 2019.
This
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 shows that modern electrical appliances helped people save a lot of
time
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 on
housework
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.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words time, housework, vacuum, hours with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • ownership
  • electrical appliances
  • housework
  • time frame
  • variables
  • trends
  • significant milestones
  • turning points
  • correlation
  • reduction
  • influenced
  • societal implications
  • quality of life
  • gender roles
  • economic implications
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