IELTS graph 296 - Time spent by UK males and females on different daily activities
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1/ Graph Writing - Table:
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The table below shows average hours and minutes spent by UK males and females on different daily activities.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
You should write at least 150 words.
Model Answer:
The table data illustrates how much time an average British male and female spent on various daily activities. It is apparently seen that sleeping consume the highest duration of a day while leisure and professional activities involve a notable portion of their time. Moreover, females do more house works and childrearing than males do on a daily basis.
As can be seen, an average British male sleeps and rests just over 8 hours a day while female’s sleeping and resting time is slightly higher than that. A similar pattern could be observed on the duration of personal care by British. Further, a male takes an hour and 25 minutes to enjoy their meals while it is 6 minutes shorter for their counterparts.
Looking further, men spend 5:25 hours to enjoy their leisure activities while it is around 28 minutes less for females. Watching TV and enjoying music is a popular pastime activity among British as they spend over half of their leisure times on that. They spend less time reading or participating in sports than they do for watching TV and listening to music.
Men spend 3 hours and 45 minutes a day for professional and academic purposes, more than females involvement on this. However, females devote more time for household works, childcare and voluntary works, roughly 4 hours, compared to almost half of that by men. Finally, British travel for nearly 1 and half hour daily and men employ slightly more time doing it than that of females.
As is observed, sleeping is an activity that reserves a large amount of time. The time spent on housework is also interesting, because of the differences that males and females present in the time they dedicate to that.
To begin with, both males and females consider sleeping an important part of their daily routine. Consequently, they spend more than 8 hours a day on this activity. The difference is slightly small, almost 15 minutes higher for British women. Not surprisingly, as the table suggests, the time that females invest doing housework is more than double the time that males spent on the same activity. So, while females spend 3 hours per day on such housework, males did so for only 1 hour and 40 minutes per day.
Moreover, men spend more time on their jobs and studies which is 3.45 hours per day, and it is just over 2 hours for females. If we compare the total leisure hours spent by males and females, it is apparent that males have almost 5 and a half hours for that while it is just below 5 hours for females. Finally, childcare is also a task that engages more time for females in the UK than males.
Overall, the British, irrespective of gender, spent the most time sleeping. Also, while men spent significantly more time on employment and study than women, the trend was the opposite for housework.
It is noticeable that both the men and women spent the most amount of time, at just over 8 hours, sleeping. This was followed by spare time activities for which they spent about 5 hours. Among the leisure activities, both the genders spent the most on “watching TV/DVD and listening to music" - at 2 hours 50 minutes and 2 hours 25 minutes respectively.
Meanwhile, men spent considerably more on jobs and studies than women at 3 hours 45 minutes to only 2 hours 26 minutes accounting for a gender-wise difference of 79 minutes. By contrast, women spent 79 minutes more than men on housework at 1 hour 45 minutes to 3 hours. Besides, both genders also spent over 1 hour on “eating and drinking” and travelling.
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