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Buyingprice USS perm Monaco Hong Kong London NewYork Singapore Home ownership rates in selected European countries Cities 1207 7 What does the title say the graph is about? 8 What does the vertical axis describe? 9 What does the horizontal axis describe? 10 What do the highest/lowest points of the line show? 11 Whatis the general trend of the line? 2» 12 Are there any sharp decreases or increases? Percentage Romania italy UK France Germany Switzeriand Countcies ‘Average house sizein selected countries 1 canada mus 13 What does thetitle say the graphs about? astral 14 What do the segments represent? Hong ken 15 Whichisthe argest/smallest segment? Hongkong pan 16 Are some segments similar in size? ‘Average house size in selected European countries Country size United kingdom Tem —————————— 17 What does the title say about the table? Frence 12 _ 48 Howmany columns ae there? What do they represent? Denmark 137m 19 Which country has the biggest average house size? coma 7 20 Which country has the smallest average house size? 21 Which countrieshave similar average house size? italy 61m? Spain stm Greece 126m? unrrox/wamng EE© _ tisveryportantthatthe i inexerei _nfmation you provide in your GT Mesamleanwer dca bene anand eden eles Rewrite the sample answer, correcting any errorsindata. information gen inthe text, ‘he pie chart and table provide information about the average house ine worldwide. Accordingto the pie chart, the Australians have the , ‘most space with the average house: size being 214m’. This is perhaps aoa aae vpn nrg court, The secon rest hoses eh A ce nunc eragesze beng 01 The county withthe — Shalest housesis Hong Kong, with residences being an average 3 of just 45 a as in comparison, the table illustrates the average house sizein all European countries. The United Kingdom and italy have the smallest hosesand Dermarkand Greece have the largest. The average house size in Denmark 137 m Inconclusion, when comparing the two graphs, tiseasily apparent that houses in Europe are much smaller than in non-European countries ‘Overall, Australia has the biggest houses and tay has the smallest, ——- Thisis most probably due to the sizeof each country T[ATY Pid thewriter make anyother errors, not related to data? iso, what were they? (G]E LY Complete the words withthe missing letters. Canyou think of any more words for ‘each category? 1 Rise 7 Fall 14 Maintain 2in 8 Deer 15 Remain 3c 9 De, 16 Stay 460 10 God 6a 11 Plu = 6 s0 12 Plun 13 or [OJEIS Answer these questions. 1 Which of the verbs in the boxes are used to describe a sudden increase? 12 Which of the verbs in the boxes are used to describe a sudden decrease? HDF vwrros werrmeJJ, When using these verbs, its important that you also consider the tense used. Look at this example. . The number of young people buying property plummet ast year. X 4 ‘The number of young people buying property plummetedlast year. Complete the sentences using the verb in brackets in the correct tense. There may be more thanone correct form of the verb. 1 Last year house prices (rise) by 5%. 2 Monaco's property market {remain} stable. 3 The line graph illustrates that since 2010 home ownership — (decrease) 4 Houseprices___(goup) next year. 5 Inireland, property prices (rocket) substantially this year © _ ovceyousnowthecommonverbsusedto descrbecharts and graphs,itisimportantto \ ‘“ ‘add adverbs and adjectives to yoursentencesin ‘order todemonstrateyourrangeof vocabulary. © _Aisctvescanbeusedto demonstrate yourrange of vocabulary. Adjective describe nouns and usvallycome before the noun. Note:these verbs are also commonly used as nouns. torise/ arise tofall/afall todecrease /a decrease toincrease/anincrease todrop/adrop _todip/adip todecline/adecline _topeak/a peak Complete the table with the adjectives from the box. Make sure you know how to spel these adjectives correctly asitis common for students tomake cerrorswith these slight modest significant dramatic stable steady’ substantial__unchanged* “Theseadjectivesusually go after the noun, Big change | ‘Small change | Gradual or no change |[By Complete the sentences using adjectives from the boxin exercise 8 and following the prompts in the brackets. More than one answer may be possible. 1 Over the last year, Hong Kong has experienced a (big) rise in house prices. 2 Therehas been a (gradual) increase in the number of young people buying houses. 3 Therentalmarkethasseena___ (small) decrease over the last six months. 4 The graph illustrates that the rental market is (no change) at the moment. © _rerosdescbe how something happens and usualy follow aver, Foresampl 1 Lost year house prices rse significantly. 2 Lostyear house prices rose slighty. 3 Lostyearhouse pies rose steady, 4 [OD Match sentences 1-3 with graphs A-c. oe o _ 2+ 154 24 20152016, 2016 201s 2014) 2015 [J Complete the tableusing the adverbs from the box. considerably consistently sharply gradually moderately fatee re lon ones spell these adverbs correctly substantially dramatically slowly rapidly Seer at are ‘make errrswith ther, Bigchange ‘Smallchange | Gradualchange | Quickchange significantly slightly steadily | quick considerably Ig Complete the sentences using the adverbs from exercise 11 and following the prompts in the brackets, More than one answer may be possible. 1 Home ownershiphas decreased__—_(big) over the last five years. 2 Property prices have increased (small) over the last six months. 3 The property market is growing (gradual) in this area, 4 Interest rates have increased (quick) recently. HEY vwror warn1 Part 1: DESCRIBING TRENDS | ™ [Z1SIg Leokatthe trends itustrated by the graphs and charts. “= ="4 Discuss them with a partner using the language you have learn Average house prices in London 900,000: 800,000 this lesson, 700,000 609,000 7 $ 500,000 3 400,000 300,000 200,000 100,900 0 yooe «2009201022022 Vears House price change in Dubai House price change in Hong Kong | B..; 201 2013 g £ 22 | E 2 ron ] é aio | 2008 i a | 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2012 2014 018 2 2 ears Percent% Match descriptions 1-3 with the graphs and charts A-C, then complete the first gap in each sentence with the correct country name. 1 Since 2008,houseppricesin__—— have __ fluctuated heavily. In 2008 prices by just over 40% and then 10-40%. 2 Since 2008, house priceincreasesin__— have under 11% each year. In 2008 prices reached a _ swith a of just over 10%, 3 Since 2010, house prices in have 1n2008, prices by almost £100,000, but again rapidly in 2010 to approximately £600,000. BIE Complete the sentences in exercise 14 using the words and phrases inthe box. decreased substantially _increasedssteadily remained peak —rise plummeted dramatically went up fluctuated — went up wrror/ warrinc [EE(EXAM sxitts } FT[E[§ Use the information and tanguage from this lesson to answer this Writing Part 1 task. You should spend about 20 minutes on thistask. The chart below gives information about how people aged 25-24 are housed inthe UK. ‘Summarise the information by selecting and reporting on the main features, ‘and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words. Donot give your ‘opinion, jstthe facts. Rememberta include anintroduction and conclusion in your How people aged 25-34 are housed in the UK 0 2014 2007” 2008” 2009 2012 "2012 Years 2004” 2005" 2006 2010" 2011 Home owners i Renters foo Mees