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How to Read and Interpret Graphs

This document provides guidance on how to read and describe different types of graphs. It outlines key steps for analyzing graphs such as identifying the title, looking for trends over time, and using descriptive adjectives and verbs to discuss upward, downward, and constant trends in the data. Examples are given for how to discuss increasing, decreasing, or stable values using terms like "rose," "fell," "remained the same."

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How to Read and Interpret Graphs

This document provides guidance on how to read and describe different types of graphs. It outlines key steps for analyzing graphs such as identifying the title, looking for trends over time, and using descriptive adjectives and verbs to discuss upward, downward, and constant trends in the data. Examples are given for how to discuss increasing, decreasing, or stable values using terms like "rose," "fell," "remained the same."

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GRAPHS

Planned drawings showing how


different values are related to
each other
HOW TO READ GRAPHS
1. give the title/name the graph
2. introduce your description
3. pay attention to the tense used
4. look at the trends
5. adjectives + nouns
verbs + adverbs
Introducing graphs
To show something in/on a graph….

The graph shows…….


illustrates …….

On the graph you see ……..


Look at this in the graph…….
By looking at the first graph, you will notice..

On the second graph, which represents …,


we can see the following trends over the six-
year period.

The third graph shows…. You will notice that…


Past Tense/Present Perfect
There was a decrease in 2005.
The number went up….in 1998/last year.

There has been a fall in …. over the last


five years.
The number has gone up….recently.
MOVEMENTS

1. Upward trend

2. Downward trend

3. The same trend


UPWARD TREND
Verbs:
Sales increased/went up/ grew/
improved/jumped/leaped
surged/soared/took off/shot up/
peaked/reached a high point
Nouns:
There was an increase/a rise/growth/an
improvement/a surge/a jump/a leap
in…sales.
DOWNWARD TREND

Verbs:

Sales dropped/fell/decreased/declined
plunged/slumped/crashed/plummeted/
tumbled/bottomed out
reached a trough/reached a low point

Nouns:

There was a decrease/fall/drop/decline/


plunge/slump/crash/in sales.
THE SAME LEVEL
NO CHANGE

The number has remained


stable/constant/.

The number has levelled off.

The number stagnated/stabilized in 2008.


grow/rise/increase (NO: up)!!!!

fall/drop/decrease (NO: down)!!!!

Prepositions:

to rise/fall from € 5m to € 7m
to increase/drop by 100%
Adjective + Noun:

There was a
slight increase.
moderate rise.
considerable/significant fall
sharp/dramatic drop.
Subject +Verb+ Adverb

Sales rose / increased slightly.


significantly.
considerably.
dramatically/sharply.

The number has doubled/tripled.


Bar Charts
Line Charts
Pie Charts
Flow Charts
Tables
[Link]
Listen and repeat!

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Write down the descriptions of the three graphs.


Write down changing the phrases from noun phrases into verb phrases.

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