Task 1 · multiple graphs · 18 samples

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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Ideas to explore

  • Compare the pace of adoption: refrigerator ownership rose especially quickly between 1940 and 1960, while washing-machine ownership changed more gradually.
  • Identify milestones in appliance ownership: refrigerators reached 100% by 1980, and vacuum cleaners did so by 2000.
  • Set the decline in housework hours alongside rising appliance ownership, while avoiding claims that the charts prove one trend caused the other.

Suggested structure

  1. Introduce both charts, the measures shown and the 1920–2019 period.
  2. Give an overview of the broad appliance-ownership increases and the fall in housework hours.
  3. Compare the three appliances, highlighting their starting points and the years they reached universal ownership.
  4. Describe the housework-hour decline chronologically, noting the plateau at 15 hours between 1980 and 2000.
Useful vocabulary & examples
household ownership
the proportion of households that have a particular item

Household ownership of refrigerators rose to 100% by 1980.

reach universal ownership
be owned by all households shown in the chart

Vacuum cleaners reached universal ownership in 2000.

edge down
decrease slightly

Washing-machine ownership edged down between 1960 and 1980.

remain at that level
stay unchanged at a previously stated figure

Housework time remained at 15 hours per week from 1980 to 2000.

Sample answers

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The graphs showed the shifting of households percentage owning electrical appliances (washing machine, refrigerator, and vacuum cleaner) and household spent time (hours) on housework per week from 1920 to 2019. Overall, the ownership of three electrical appliances increased gradually throughout the periods, with a significant increase in 1940. In 2019, almost the households have refrigerator and vacuum cleaner; in fa…

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The two line graphs illustrate the proportion of electrical appliances ownership for families and total of time doing chores for each family per week in one country during 1920 to 2019. Concentrate on the first graph firstly. It is obvious that all kind of electrical appliances ownership grew in that period time. Refrigerator shows the most dramatic increase, rising from almost no households in 1920 to 100% by 1980, …

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206 words · Illustrative target band

the two charts illustrate the proportion of households having electrical appliances (washing machine, refrigerator, and vacuum cleaner) and household spent their time in housework per week (hours) from 1920 to 2019. Overall, the households remained a small proportion having three categories appliances in 1920 before its gradually increase throughout the given periods. The number of households owning appliances rose, …

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