The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical
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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.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
What the chart shows
Two line graphs for one country, 1920–2019. Graph 1 "Percentage of households with electrical appliances": the washing machine rises from about 40% (1920) to 60% (1940) and 70% (1960), dips to about 63% (1980), then climbs to 70% (2000) and 75% (2019); the refrigerator rises steeply from about 3% (1920) to 55% (1940) and 90% (1960), reaching 100% by 1980 and staying there; the vacuum cleaner rises steadily from about 30% (1920) to 50% (1940), 70% (1960) and 90% (1980), reaching 100% by 2000. Graph 2 "Number of hours of housework per week, per household": falls from 50 hours (1920) to about 34 (1940), 20 (1960), 14 (1980), 14 (2000) and 11 (2019). (*housework = washing clothes, preparing meals, cleaning.)
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Task Achievement, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy — the four official IELTS criteria, each with its own band and a written reason. Write at least 150 words.