Band 6+: The bar chart below shows the hours per week that teenagers spend doing certain activities in Chester from 2002 to 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and making relevant comparisons.

The bar chart visually illustrates the total duration of youngsters spent on various activities per week, which was counted in hours, in Chester between 2002 and 2007.Overall, watching television was the highest and generally increased over the years.

Watching television initially started at 25, then for the next few years, it kept increasing until around 37 in 2007. Also for shopping, it stood at 5 in 2002 and grew to threefold in 2007. Going to pubs also rose, it started at about 8 in 2002, then it went up to nearly 12, and jumped to approximately 18.

Doing homework, on the other hand, generally decreased. In the beginning, it was about 12 and continued to drop to half in 2007. Similar to the former, doing sport dropped and ended up being a small amount in 2007. Also, bowling became smaller, this category represented the smallest among all categories. Next, watching DVDSs mostly dropped, although it increased in the first 3 years, it dropped to smaller than the initial number in 2007.