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Graphs Review
Language to describe rise:
verb to rise to increase to go up adjective upward trend noun a rise an increase

Graphs Review
Language to describe rise:
verb to fall to decrease to drop to decline to go down adjective downward trend noun a fall a decrease a drop a decline

Graphs Review
Language to describe a rise/fall or no change:
verb
to fluctuate to vary to hold stead

noun
a fluctuation a variation it holds/is holding

meaning
go up and down go up and down no change

Graphs Review
Describing the degree of change
dramatically vast huge enormous

substantial considerable significant moderate slight a little

There has been a slight increase in the value of the dollar.

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Describing the speed of change
rapidly quickly swiftly gradually

slowly

Share prices fell rapidly on the London stock exchange.

Graph Practice
Write 1-4 sentences to describe each graph. Include as much information as possible. 1) What is the topic of the
A: Production of timber
80 60 40 20 0 1989 1995

graph? 2) What is/are the major trend or trends? 3) Give facts and evidence from the graph to support the trend. 4) Concluding sentence /your interpretation

A: Production of timber

Graph Practice
Production of timber

80 60 40 20 0 1989 1995

1. What is the topic of the graph? This line graph shows the production of timber between 1989 and 1995. 2. What is/are the major trend or trends? Generally speaking, there was a downward trend in the production of timber during the period.

A: Production of timber

Graph Practice

80 60 40 20 0 1989 1995

3. Give facts and evidence from the graph to support the trend. Production was the highest at 50 in 1989. It decreased steadily to 20 over the next 6 years. 4. Concluding sentence /your interpretation In short, the production of timber has declined, probably due to deforestation or new types of resources.

More Graphs

Graph 1
Choose the correct answer: Investment shows
a sharp increase. a slight increase. a slight fall
Investment

Graph 2
Choose the correct answer: Sales of Product A has
raised by $5000. risen by $5000. developed by $5000.

25 20 15 10 5 0 A B C

Graph 3
Choose the correct answer: After a period of continual increase, the share price
has remained stable. has fallen slightly. has expanded.
Share Price

Graph 4
Choose the correct answer: The price
reached a peak and then slumped. slumped then reached a peak. slumped then grew slowly

Answers to Graphs 1-4

1. Investment shows a slight increase. 2. Sales of Product A has risen by $5000. 3. After a period of continual increase, the share price has remained stable. 4. The price reached a peak and then slumped.

Graph 5
The graph compares unemployment rates in the US and France between 1997 and 2003. The horizontal axis shows time over the six-year period. The vertical axis shows the percentage of unemployed workers. The solid line shows the unemployment rate in the US while the broken line shows that of France.

Graph 5
Generally speaking, there has been a downward trend in unemployment in the US while France has experienced an upward trend in unemployment. Between 1997 and 1998, the unemployment rate for the US decreased significantly, from 8% to 6%. During the same period, unemployment in France climbed steadily from 4% to 6%.

Graph 5
From the end of 1998, the unemployment rate for the US decreased further to 5% in mid 1999 and held steady for 2 years. During the same period, the unemployment rate in France increased further to reach a peak of 7.5% in the middle of 1999. Between 1999 and 2000, there was a downward trend as unemployment rate in France dipped to 6%.

Graph 5
In general, between 1999 and mid 2002, the unemployment rate in France fluctuated between a high of 7.5% and a low of 6%. Since mid 2002, there has been another upward trend. In the US, however, the picture was rosier. Although there was a slight increase of 1% in unemployment between the middle of 2001 and 2002, the trend has been a downward one since mid 2002.

Graph 5
In short, unemployment rates in the US is decreasing steadily while that for France shows a steady increase. There has only been one point where the two rates meet, which was at the end of 1998 where the two lines intersected at 6%. The overall trends in unemployment in the US and France shows that the economy in the US is doing much better than in France.

More Figures & Tables

A total of 100 undergraduates in NUS participated in this study. The proportion of undergraduates from the different faculties is representative of that in the university student population (Table 3.1).

Faculty Medicine Business Engineering Total

Number of undergraduate participants 15 35 50 100

Table 3.1: Number of undergraduates in the different faculty

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Figure 4.1: Current Service Provider

Singnet 4.5% Starhub Pacific Internet 25%

70.5%

As shown in Figure 4.1, the majority of the respondents (70.5%) are current subscribers of Singnet, while the minority of the respondents (4.5%) are current subscribers of Pacific Internet. The remaining 25% are current subscribers of Starhub.
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Figure 4.2: Yummy Yoghurt Ice-cream is a healthy choice Strongly Agree Agree Neither Agree nor Disagree Disagree Strongly Disagree 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 6.8%

4.5% 36.4% 52.3% 100% Consumers Non-consumers

% Respondents

All the respondents who have tried Yummy Yoghurt Ice-cream agreed that it is a healthy choice. In contrast, about half of the respondents who have never tried the ice-cream were neutral about it (Figure 4.2).
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Figure 4.3: Brand of chocolates respondents buy most frequently

45.0% 40.0% 35.0% 30.0% 25.0% 20.0% 15.0% 10.0% 5.0% 0.0% 39.0%

% Respondents

25.0% 19.0% 12.0% 3.5% 1.5% None

Meiji

Cadbury

Nestle

Ferrero Rocher

Hersheys

As evident in Figure 4.3, the most popular brand of chocolates is Meiji with 39.0% of respondents stating that they buy Meiji chocolates frequently. The least popular is Hersheys at 3.5%. 1.5% of the respondents do not buy any chocolate.
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