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1) Is inflation nowadays skyrocketing, fluctuating or rising steadily? Why?

2) Is the Covid death rate in SP plummeting, taking off or mildly declining? Why?

3) Is the president’s credibility soaring, plunging dramatically, or levelling off? Why?

4) Is the econonomy sliding, nosediving or steadying? Has it reached a trough? Why?

5) Are food prices slightly increasing, taking off or dipping? Why?

6) Has the dollar rate been fluctuating, climbing or dropping? Why?

7) Have you felt a sudden increase in gas prices?

8) What’s the difference between a graph, a bar chart, a pie chart and a flow chart?
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skyrocket soar climb / jump / take off increase / rise

stabilize/leveloff/ fluctuate dip fall / drop

steady

slide plunge plummet / tumble nosedive / slump

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1) How do you read graphs?

Item by item?
Summarizing?
Analyzing? Boring?

Telling a story?
Appealing?

>> Telling an appealing story, by setting a context

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Describe the graph:

- from 1997 to 2000 => slid
- from 2000 to 2001 => plunged dramatically, plummeted sharply, nosedived
- from 2001 to 2002 => soared sharply
- from 2002 to 2003 => increased / rose steadily
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Describe the graph:

- from 2007Q3 to 2008Q1 => increased sharply, climbed / jumped steadily
- from 2008Q1 to 2008Q3 => slid dramatically, plunged slightly, tumbled
- from 2008Q3 to 2008Q4 => soared sharply / dramatically, skyrocketed
- from 2008Q$ to 2009Q2  nosedived-plunged
- from 2009Q2 to 2010Q2  rose dramatically/sharply, took off, soared
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Describe the graph:

- from Monday to Tuesday  rose, increased, climbed, took off

- from Tuesday to Thursday => rose / increased steadily
- From Thursday to Friday => fell, dropped, declined dramatically, tumbled
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Describe the graph:

- from 1967 to 1983 => rose / increased unsteadily
- from 1983 to 2008Q1 => fluctuated significantly
- from 2008 to 2011Q3 => skyrocketed
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Describe the graph:

- from 2007 to 2008Q3 => rose / increased steadily
- from 2008Q3 to 2009Q2 => skyrocketed, soared
- from 2009Q2 to 2012Q3 => fell / dropped steadily, dipped sharply