雅思写作：Task1柱状图考官范文（1）

The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of different employment status.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

Leisure time in a typical week in hour: by sex and employment status, 1998-99.

Model Answer:

The provided chart shows the number of leisure hours enjoyed by men and women in a typical week in 1998-99, according to gender and employment status. As is observed from the graph, the unemployed and retired men and women had more leisure time than the other type of people.

Among the full time employed people, men had about 45 hours of leisure time on an average per week compared to the 38 hours of leisure time for woman. No data is given for the part-time employed men and woman from this category enjoyed 40 hours of leisure time in a week. This figure is slightly more than the employed woman perhaps because of their employment nature.

Unemployed and retired people had the longest period for leisure activity both for men and woman and men had a bit more hours than the women. As expected the retired and unemployed people enjoyed about 78 to 82 hours per week which is longer than people from other employment status. Lastly housewives enjoyed approximately 50 hours of leisure time which is more than the employed woman but less than the unemployed and retired woman. The graph reflects that men had more leisure time from all status than woman which indicates that woman spent on more time working at home than the male.

The graph summarises that the male enjoy more leisure time than woman and employed people had less time for leisure activity than retired and unemployed people.

(Approximately 244 words)

Alternative Answer:

The graph compares the amount of leisure time enjoyed by people of different employment level s in a typical week in the year 1998-1999.

In the given column graph, no data has been provided for the part-time employed and house-staying men. For rest of the cases, Men have more leisure time than women of the same category. The highest amount of leisure hours are enjoyed by those, who are unemployed. Unemployed men had approximately 85 hours of spare time and women from the same category had about 83 hours. The retired people also enjoyed the same amount of leisure activities as did the unemployed men and women. On the contrary, full-time employed men had a total of 40 hours leisure time compared to about 37 hours of women from the same status. Finally woman with part-time job had 40 hours-time to spend as leisure time and Housewives had 50 hours leisure time.

In conclusion, unemployed and retire people, both men and women enjoyed more leisure time than employed people and men compared to women had more time for leisure activities.