Sample Question

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Women with College or Postgraduate Degrees in 1980

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Warm-up
Essential Expressions ,
Below are useful sentences for describing data in a line graph combined with a pie chart.

Case 01 A rise in the line graph and two segments in the pie chart shown in figures
• Am ount of X
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D Amount of Y
CDThe line graph shows the price whereas the pie chart shows
the amount.
® When the amount of X is greater than the amount of Y, the
price goes up.
@ When there is a smaller amount of Y than there is X, the
price goes up.

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Case 02 A fall in the line graph and two segments in the pie chart shown in percentages
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- - Price D y CDThe line graph shows the price while the pie chart shows
the percentage of X and Y.
® When X has a larger percentage than Y, the price goes
down.
@ When Y is less than X, the price goes down .

Case 03 Both a rise and a fall in the line graph and two segments in the pie chart shown in figures
- - Price A • Amount of X CD When there is more X than there is Y, the price of A
- - - Price B D Amount of Y
increases and the price of B decreases.

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® When the amount of X is greater than the amount of Y, the
prices of A and B are negatively correlated .
@ While there are fewer Y than there are X, the price of A rises
and the price of B falls.

Case 04 Both a rise and a fall in the line graph and two segments in the pie chart shown in
percentages
- - P rice A • x CD When X's percentage is greater than Y's percentage, the
- - - Pri ce B D y
prices of A and B are negatively correlated .

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® A's price goes up and B's price goes down when Y has a
lower percentage than X.
@ The price of A and the price of B go in opposite directions
when X has a larger percentage than Y.

Practice Test

Summer Sports Participants (in millions)

D 1988

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 Number of Winter Sports Participants (in millions)
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1988 1992 1996 2000 2004

Step 1 Discovering Key Words

When looking at any chart, graph, or process, break the visual down into key expressions. Use these
key words to help write your report.

1. two charts: the number of sports participants during the years the Olympics were held
2. a pie chart: the number of people playing summer sports, from 1988 to 2004
3. a line graph : the number of winter sports participants, from 1988 to 2004

4. a pie chart: a decrease from 1988 to 1992

5. after 1992 , rise until 2004
6. in 2004, twice as many people playing summer sports than in 1988
7. a line graph : winter sports participation, opposite of the trend
8. increase from 1988 to 1992
9. after 1992 , a fall until 2004

10. negatively correlated

11. 1988-2004, one rises, the other falls

Step 2 Planning the Report

Write the introduction, body and conclusion.

Summer Sports Participants (in millions) Number of Winter Sports Participants (in millions)

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 1. two charts: the number of sports participants during the years the Olympics were held
2. a pie chart: the number of people playing summer sports , every four years from 1988 to 2004
3. a line graph: the number of winter sports participants, covers the same period

4. a pie chart: a slight decrease, from 1988 to 1992

5. after 1992, rises until 2004
6. in that year, almost twice as many people playing summer sports than in 1988
7. a line graph: winter sports participation, opposite of the trend from the first chart
8. increases from 1988 to 1992
9. fall until 2004, after that only 2 million people

10. winter sports and summer sports, seem to be negatively correlated

11. 1988-2004, whenever one number rises, the other falls, vice versa

Step 3 Finalising the Report

Complete the sentences below, using the information from the chart.

1. These two charts show the number of sports , in millions, during the
years the Olympics were
2. The first chart, a pie chart , shows the number of people playing
every from 1988 to 2004 .
3. The second chart, a line graph, covers the same period but shows the number of winter
sports

4. The in the pie chart shows that there is a decrease

of summer sports participants from 1988 to 1992.
5. 1992, though , the number of people participating in summer sports rises
2004.
6. In , there are twice as many
people playing summer sports than there are in 1988.
7. The data winter sports participation is of the trend
from the first chart.
8. than from one Olympic year to the , the
number of people participating in winter sports from 1988 to 1992.
9. fall until 2004 , after that only 2 million people
played winter sports, less than a of the number from 1988.

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