The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.
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The bar chartchat comparescompare the proportion of weekly income spent across eight categoriesthe number of eight parts that families cost every week onin average in 1968 and 2018.
It is obvious that in 1968 food was the highest amount of domestic cost, but the spending in leisure became the largest expendituretop wasting after 50 years. Furthermore, the cost in housing and transport also experienced an increasealso experiencing ascent between 1968 and 2018.
In 1968, the food accounted forcoverd 35 percentpersent of families' weekly bills, morethan three times higher than housing, clothing and footware which tied the second highest part about 10%. In 2018, the weekly domestic spending in leisurelesisure overtook the spending in food up to around 22%, while22%，while the parts of housing, transport growing from 10% to almost 20%, 10% to approximately 15%.
The other four parts of weekly family expenditurefamliies coat, without household goods which stayed stable atof 8%, dropped lightly in this period of time. Fuel and power faced a decline from 6% to 4%. Clothing and footware had a decreasedesecnt from 10% to 5%, whereas personal goods droppeddopped by a similar amount from 8% to 4%.from 8% to 4%
Why this response received Band 5.5
文章成功完成了图表核心趋势的描写与具体数据的对比，段落结构清晰且包含了有效的概述。然而，拼写错误和词汇误用过于频繁，且存在多处语法结构与介词搭配不当的问题。最优先的改进方向是加强基础词汇拼写检查并规范数据描写的语法句式。
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
任务完成度
文章包含了较为完整的概述，准确归纳了主要趋势并涵盖了大部分关键数据对比。
注意替换如“top wasting”等不恰当表述，确保总结段落的表达准确恰当。
连贯与衔接
全篇结构分明，信息推进较为连贯，逻辑顺序合理。
在使用插入语和复杂连接句时注意标点与接续，使段落间的衔接更加自然。
词汇资源
词汇使用出现频繁的拼写拼写错误和措辞不当，影响了整体表达的准确度。
系统积累图表描述高频词（如 percent, leisure, descent, dropped），并在写完后严格检查拼写。
语法多样性与准确性
时态和主谓一致错误较多，句式结构缺乏控制力，影响了语法的准确性。
重点练习主谓一致、过去时动词变体以及介词（如 stable at, drop from... to...）的固定搭配。