CAMBRIDGE- IELT 02-WRITING TASK 01

CAMBRIDGE- IELT 02-WRITING TASK 01
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task
The table below shows the consumer durables (telephone, refrigeration, etc) owned in Britain from 1972 to 1983. Writting a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.
You should write at least 150 words

You should write at least 150 words.

Consumer durables	1972	1974	1976	1978	1979	1981	1982	1983
Percentage of households with:
central heating	39	43	48	52	55	59	60	64
television	93	95	96	96	97	97	97	98
video								18
vacuum cleaner	87	89	92	92	93	94	95
refrigerator	73	81	88	91	92	93	93	94
washing machine	66	68	71	75	74	78	79	80
dishwasher				3	3	4	4	5
telephone	42	50	54	60	67	75	76	77

The table shows that the percentage of British households with consumer durable steadily increased between 1972 and 1983. It is obviously to find out that what the most popular in British homes was a television and the biggest changes was in the ownership of telephone and central heating.

In 1972, 93% of British homes had a television and this increased to 98% in 1983. The majority of homes also had a vacuum cleaner and a refrigerator. These consumer durable were owned by over 90% of households by the end of the period. Washing machines were the fourth most common item, with 60% of households owning one in 1972, rising to 80% of households in 1983.
The significant social changes reflected in the statistics are that the proportion of British homes with telephone rose from 42% to 77% and of those with central heating rose from 37% to 64% . In dishwasher use, it slightly increased by 2% from 1978 when date recording dishwasher started in . In addition, the ownership of video reached by 18% in 1879-the year of their introduction.
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