Band 6+: The chart below shows the percentage of the day working adults spent doing different activities in a particular country in 1958 and in 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Sleeping: 32% --> 25% Travelling to work: 2% --> 8% Working: 33% --> 42% Relaxing at home: 8% --> 13% Going out (with friends/ family): 19% --> 6% Other (e.g. hobbies, playing sport): 6% --> 6%

The pie charts illustrate the percentage of time in a day that employed individuals in one country devoted to working, relaxing at home, sleeping, traveling to work, going out, and pursuing interests or playing sports in 1958 and 2008.

As seen from the pie charts, the amount of time people spend for working experienced an increasingly higher percentage over the fifty years, dropping from 32% to only accounted for a quarter, but it remains the second most time-consuming activity. Moreover, the time allocated for the going out decreased dramatically .In contrast, working consistently employed the largest percentage of the time spending, starting at around 33% and rising significantly to approximately half(42%) in the end(2008).

The time used for other activities, such as time spending for relaxing at home witnessed continuous increases from 8% to 13%.In addition, the time people spent traveling to work and for hobbies was the same level of 8% in 2008, with that for commuting surging four times and that for hobbies growing by2% since 1958.

Overall, working people spend much more time for working instead of sleeping, and the personal family time decreased throughout the period.