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WT 1 - Overview and Language of Trends
WT 1 - Overview and Language of Trends
Assessment Criteria
▪ Task Achievement
▪ Coherence and Cohesion
▪ Lexical Resource
▪ Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Question Types
▪ Dynamic charts → Describing trends/changes; for example: line graph, bar graph, pie chart,
and table
▪ Static charts → Describing data comparisons; for example: bar chart, pie chart, and table
▪ Maps
▪ Objects
Paragraph 1:
(An) Introductory sentence(s) → overview of what the graph is about
Paragraph 2:
Summary → general trends (without any figures)
Paragraph 3-4:
Details → specific trends (figures/statistics included)
Describing Dynamic charts
Language of trends (1)
A. Decide whether the phrases below mean an upward, downward or even trend!
1 2 3
B. The adjectives and adverbs below describe amount or degree of change. Put the words
in the correct column! Some can go in more than one column.
Adjectives Adverbs
a b c d e f
C. Match a set of definitions with a graph!
A B C
D E F
G H I
J K L
Examples
Pattern 2: There was a steady fall in the consumption of chocolate. (there was a + adjective + noun)
Pattern 2: There has been a dramatic rise in the production of films. (there has been a + adjective + noun)
Examples:
• There was a dramatic increase in the number of tourists to Leeds Castle in 1999.
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Error Correction Exercise
10. Enrolment figures for West London College hit a peak in 2005.
11. There was a slow fluctuation in the number of burglaries in the south-east.
14. Teddy bear sales remained significantly constant over the whole period.