English Language Discussion Forums


Go Back   UsingEnglish.com ESL Forum > Learning English > Editing & Writing Topics

Quick Links
Sites for Teachers


Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 08-Dec-2008, 16:00
Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Country: Vietnam
Posts: 119
Current Location: Vietnam
First Language: Vietnamese
Member Type: Student or Learner
linhtho0211 is on a distinguished road
Default Describing chart

Please share your opinion about my writing below.

The chart shows average hours spent doing housework each week by gender and marital status in Fancyland. Write a report of about 150 words for your examiner(s) describing the information in the chart



The chart shows average hours spent doing housework each week by gender and marital status in Fancyland. In general, whatever their marital status is, women always work harder on housework than men.
It can be seen clearly from the chart that men spend just around 20 hours doing housework per week. The most hard-working of them are divorcés and widowers with 21 and 24 hours respectively. The others spend less than 20 hours, of whom single men living with parents spend the least time (15 hours)
The situation is partly similar to women’s. Single women living in parental home also spend the least time doing housework with 19 hours per week but married ones the most time with 35 hours per week. Cohabitants and divorcées have the same average weekly housework hours of 31 hours. The two left types of women slightly differently spend in the region of 25 hours per week.
On the whole, it’s obivous that people without family ties care fore housework less than those who have ever married.

Last edited by linhtho0211; 08-Dec-2008 at 16:43.
Reply With Quote
Sponsored Links
  #2  
Old 08-Dec-2008, 16:12
Key Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Country: USA
Posts: 2,548
Current Location: Oakland County, Michigan
First Language: American English
Member Type: Academic
susiedqq is a splendid one to beholdsusiedqq is a splendid one to beholdsusiedqq is a splendid one to beholdsusiedqq is a splendid one to beholdsusiedqq is a splendid one to beholdsusiedqq is a splendid one to beholdsusiedqq is a splendid one to behold
Default Re: Describing chart

There are some grammar errors in your paragraph.

But your last statement is a shocker.

On the whole, it’s obivous that people without family ties care fore housework less than those who have ever married.

Where did you get that conclusion and what does "care for housework" mean?
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to susiedqq For This Useful Post:
  #3  
Old 08-Dec-2008, 16:23
Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Country: Vietnam
Posts: 119
Current Location: Vietnam
First Language: Vietnamese
Member Type: Student or Learner
linhtho0211 is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Describing chart

Quote:
Originally Posted by susiedqq View Post
There are some grammar errors in your paragraph.

But your last statement is a shocker.

On the whole, it’s obivous that people without family ties care fore housework less than those who have ever married.

Where did you get that conclusion and what does "care for housework" mean?
Hee , maybe I'm wrong. I just guess so.
"Care for housework" means spending time on housework. Perhaps it's not suitable, I don't know.
"Without family ties" means having never get married. I see that never married people spend less time on housework than married people, divorced and widowed people.
And could you please point out grammar errors for me?
Thank you very much
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
describing the clothes and people appearance The black horse English Idioms and Sayings 1 28-Apr-2008 22:40
chart describing! dato Ask a Teacher 1 28-Dec-2006 12:06
ONE chart for sounds produced by MANY humans ??? j4mes_bond25 Pronunciation and Phonetics 3 26-Sep-2006 08:58
off the chart... nautes20 Ask a Teacher 1 28-Jun-2005 08:38
Correct way of describing the height of a person Help Wanted Ask a Teacher 2 02-Nov-2004 03:58


All times are GMT. The time now is 06:22.


vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - 2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.3.0
Copyright © 2002 - 2009 UsingEnglish.com