October 13 - Task 1

 

The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

This task one is written by BAWA IELTS Ferozepur by following the plagiarism policy.

The multiple-line graph exhibits the leisure time activities of the more aged people in the United States from 1980 to 2010. Overall, hiking gained the highest popularity with time; however, theatre lost its charm over three decades. 

According to the given data, five per cent of seniors surfed the Internet, three in ten did reading, half proportion went to the theatre, and three-fifth ratio watched TV. This data belongs to 1980. After a decade, the first category was boosted by five per cent, the second one polished by ten per cent, the third type plunged by twenty per cent, and watching TV fostered by five per cent. In 2000, surfing the Internet, reading, theatre, and watching TV recorded fifteen per cent, twenty per cent, forty per cent, and seventy per cent, respectively. In 2010, theatre touched 45%. Watching TV slipped to 66%. Reading and Surfing the Internet registered sixty and fifty per cent, separately. 

Finally, hiking was the only activity that did not face any drop in proportion. In 1980, it was 20% that roused by two-folds after a decade, three times after two decades, and four-folds after thirty years.