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The pie charts below show how teenagers spend their time on a weekday and at the weekend.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
| Category | Weekday | Weekend |
|---|---|---|
| School | 40% | 0% |
| Study | 14% | 8% |
| Screens | 18% | 30% |
| Sport | 6% | 14% |
| Socialising | 16% | 40% |
| Chores | 6% | 8% |
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An overview names the main trends or differences in one or two sentences, without numbers. These are the features a strong answer picks out:
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The pie charts compare how teenagers divide their waking hours between six activities on a weekday and at the weekend.
Overall, school dominates the weekday, whereas the weekend is mostly spent socialising and using screens. Teenagers also play far more sport at the weekend.
On a weekday school takes up the biggest proportion of time, at 40%, followed by screens with 18% and socialising with 16%. Study occupies 14% of waking hours, and sport and chores each account for only 6%.
At the weekend, school disappears entirely, and the time it occupied is spread across the other activities. Socialising becomes the largest category, at 40%, up from 16% on a weekday, which is two and a half times as much. Time spent on screens rises from 18% to 30%, so these two activities together account for 70% of waking hours.
Sport more than doubles, from 6% to 14%, and study falls from 14% to 8%. Chores increase slightly from 6% to 8%. Study and chores therefore receive the same share of time at the weekend.
| Phrase | Meaning |
|---|---|
| waking hours | time spent awake |
| spend time on | use time for |
| dominate | be the main part |
| more than double | become over twice |
| weekdays | Monday to Friday |
| free time | time without obligations |
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