Pastimes

The numbers below show basic information about uses of leisure time among different age groups. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main information and making comparisons.

The table gives information about how people of different ages use their free time.

Overall, the statistic studied the pastimes of three groups of people: the teenagers, the people who are of labor age and the old. They are surveyed about how much time they spend at the weekend on distinct activities, namely reading, playing on the computer and exercising, which are intellectual, passive and active, respectively.

According to the table, people who are 66 or older spend the most time on reading with 60 minutes per weekend day, whereas the teenagers merely read for 5 minutes on average. Moreover, the adolescents use 75 minutes to play computer games in their leisure time, twice more than the others. Doing sports and exercising are the most fascinated by 20-to-65-year-old people. They spend 2 hours on this pastime.

The teenagers prefer playing on computer, which the the most passive among the three. On the other hand, people of working-age and the old engage in much more positive activities in most of their time: reading and exercising, respectively.