The pie charts below show the percentage of electricity production by fuel source in France in 1990 and 2010.

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report gives brief information about the two pie charts below that illustrate the electricity produced by five different fuel
sources
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in France for two time periods, which are 1990 and 2010.
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, it is observed that four of five
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were distributed with very close shares in 1990,
while
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the main
resource
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source
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for
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electricity was nuclear
power
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in 2010. In 1990, natural
sources
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like coal, oil, and natural gas shared almost equal percentages, with respectively 28%, 22%, and 28%. Only 6% of the total production consisted of hydro
power
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, which is the only renewable
energy
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source. The total share of nuclear
power
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is shown as 17%, and it was far from being the major
energy
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source in 1990. When we compare the resources in 2010, it is clearly seen that the major percentage of the
energy
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produced was by nuclear
power
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,
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67%. Naturally, the percentage of traditional
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like coal and oil sharply decreased to 13%,
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they shared the second place. The most dramatic fall was observed in natural gas, with
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% change with respect to the 1990 percentage.
Energy
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generation by hydro
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plants remained
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the
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standing by 2%, with a marginal reduction.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words sources, power, energy with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "percentages" was used 4 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • fuel
  • source
  • electricity
  • chart
  • share
  • percent
  • proportion
  • increase
  • rise
  • decrease
  • fall
  • remain
  • large
  • small
  • main
  • nuclear
  • oil
  • coal
  • gas
  • renewable
  • hydro
  • wind
  • solar
  • policy
  • energy
  • France
  • 1990
  • 2010
  • compare
  • contrast
  • trend
  • change
  • mix
  • environment
  • technology
  • growth
  • decline
  • stable
  • balance
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