The first chart below shows how energy is used in an average Australian household. The second chart shows the greenhouse gas emissions which result from this energy use. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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The pie charts represent the shares of different activities regarding the energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions in an average Australian family.
Overall
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, heating and water heating accounted for the biggest percentage of energy use,
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also
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releasing the most carbon dioxide emissions. On the one hand, most of the energy was allocated for heating ( 42%) and for water heating ( 30%).
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, refrigeration, lighting and cooling followed the list of power appliances with 7, 4, and 2 percents respectively.
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, all other sections made up 15% of the total power . Moving on to the gas emissions, water heating had the biggest figure with almost one third of the total amount.
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, heating and refrigeration were the second and the third , with one percentage gap between them (15 and 14%) . Meanwhile, lighting released the 8% and cooling 3% of carbon dioxide. Surprisingly, the share of other appliances, despite consuming the 15% of electricity, in the gas emission was 28%.

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Basic structure: Change the third paragraph.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Average Australian household
  • Greenhouse gas emissions
  • Energy consumption
  • Activities
  • Heating
  • Cooling
  • Water heating
  • Appliances
  • Lighting
  • Standby
  • Percentage (%)
  • Consumption patterns
  • Efficiency
  • Emissions impact
  • Renewable energy
  • Energy-saving measures
  • Sustainability
  • Carbon footprint
  • Electricity
  • Natural gas
  • Emissions breakdown
  • Energy audit
  • Environmental impact
  • Conservation
  • Mitigation strategies
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