Lesson 4: Change in pastimes in Bangladesh

Tiya: Hello everyone! My name is Tiya. My friend, Anusha and I are going to do a
presentation on Pastime Habits of Classes 9 and 10 students in our school. There are
120 students, 60 in class 9 and 60 in class 10. The classes have gender equity. Each
class has 30 male and 30 female students. The survey shows that 22.3 percent of
students in classes 9-10 like games and sports as their most favourite pastime, which
is the 4th option given by classes 5-6 students. Watching television is the second
choice (17.2%) by the first group in contrast to 31.2% of the second group. It is
noteworthy that watching television is the first choice of the second group. A
considerable number (13.7%) of 9-10 students like to chat with their friends and thus
it becomes the third popular choice in the graph while this becomes one of the less
important choices by the younger kids. Only 6.7% of the kids take it as their first
priority. It’s interesting that both the groups like reading books. 12.9% of students of
classes 9-10 take it as their favourite pastime. The number is 11.7% for 5-6 students.
Besides, gardening is voted (10.7% of students) to be the 5th preference by the grown
up group though it is not that much liked by the younger group. Only 6.1% of the
young kids are involved in it. This is interesting that though higher number of
students in classes 9-10 prefer attending social programs (9.1%) than students of
classes 5-6 (7.8%), yet as a choice it is preferred by the later group. It is the 5th choice
for them while to the older group it is the 6th. Young kids have greater fascination for
playing games on the computers (20.9% of learners like it as their first choice). The
graph shows that as the kids grow up, they lose their passion for computer games.
According to the graph the ratio declines to 8.2% from 20.9% when the kids are
students of classes 9-10. Finally, it can be said that the influence of television has
impact on both the groups but the more students grow up, the more they pass on to
the fields/gym from the idiot box.