STRUCTURE FOR DESCRIBING

TRENDS/DIFFRENCES/ SIMILARITIES
1 S+ V+ ADJ/ ADV The number of male students registering for
(COMPARATIVE) maths was much higher than that of female
students

There was a higher number of male students

registering for maths than that of female
students .

The number of HUFI students increased

sharply from 2020 to 2022
2 THERE + BE + (A/AN) + ADJ There was a higher percentage of female
(COMPARATIVE) + N …. students in language classes than that of male
students.

The percentage of female students in

language classes was higher than that of male
students.

There was slight decrease in the number of

3 S+ EXPERIENCED/ SAW/ Finance an Banking witnessed a similar
WITHNESSED + (A/AN + ADJ )+ number of male and female students in the
NOUN school year 2020 – 2021.
S + FOLLOW + UPWARD/
DOWNWARD TREND = A similar number of male and female
INCREASING / DECRESING students
TREND = RISING/ FALLING …………………………………………….
TREND (PATTERN)

4 A/AN + ADJ + N ( NUMBER) + A significant gap was seen in the number of

WAS SEEN/ WITNESSED/
NOTICED/ FOUND + IN +
WHAT +TIME PERIOD
male students compared with females in
HUFI in 2020.
The number of male students compared with
females in HUFI
……………………………………………

5 TIME PERIOD + WITNESSED/ The year 2020 witnessed a significant increase

SAW+ A/AN + ADJ+ N + IN + of 7000 in the number of students in HUFI.
NUMBER
The year 2020 witnessed a noticeable
difference in the number of female and male
students
 Expression to focus on an item in the graph.

» With regards to……….

» In the case of………
» As for…………
» Turning to……..
» When it comes to ....., it/ they .....
» Looking at……..,
» Regarding………..
» In the ……….. Sector
» Out of …….. (countries/ sectors/ schools…)
 The given bar graph depicts the effect of social media on three groups namely
followers, advocates, donors within 6 years between 2008 and 2013. Overall, the data for each
column increased over the period, in which the number of followers was always on the top
compared to that of other groups.
In detail, an UPWARD trend was seen in the figure of followers which started at
around 180 at the beginning and sharply grew to the PEAK at nearly 1800 in 2013.
REGARDING advocates, the proportion of those for social media followed an
INCREASING pattern with LOWER rate. It began at 100 people and gradually rose to over 1000 at
the end of the period, which was two times FEWER than that of followers.
STARTING at the lowest point in the year 2008, the number of donors slightly went up
over 4 years later. The rising rate speeded up in the last two years , making it reach the highest
point at over 400, however, still remaining at the BOTTOM level among three groups.
The bar graph compares how much leisure time men and women spent weekly in hour between
1998 and 1999.Overall, it can be seen that males had more free time than females in three
groups, and employed people had less time for leisure activities than retired and unemployed
individuals.
The bar graph demonstrates how many hours males and females relaxed everyweek in different
employment status from the year 1998 to 1999. It can be seen clearly that the leisure time of
females was lower than that of males in three occupation patterns, and 2 groups just had
figures of females.

THE GIVEN BAR GRAPH PRESENTS THE NUMBERS OF LEISURE HOURS SPENT WEEKLY BY MALES
AND FEMALES OF VARIOUS OCCUPATION PATTERNS IN THE YEARS 1998 AND 1999.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of
different employment status.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.
You should write at least 150 words.
Leisure time in a typical week in hour - by sex and employment status, 1998-99.