Comparison graphs and analyses

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Guideline for good writing
Write a report describing the graph below
 Sample introduction:
 In introduction : make general comparison &
contrast.

 Using quantifiers : both….and / neither ….nor

fewer/ more/ less
the body - male speaking
 Give information in certain point

 Choose the periods which have the same

pattern( use an adjective for each the
period)

 Example :
gradually : from 1960 to 1974

steeply : from 1980 to 2000

Female smoking
 Female smoking
-Using comparison/ contrast phrases to transfer to another thing
( female smoking)

1968 to 1977: increase more steeply

1984 : remain stable
2000: bean to decline.
Pie charts
The introduction
Body
 Give information about the items respectively.

 Take notice of remarkable changes in certain

periods of each item

 Make comparison and contrast among items

 USEFUL LANGUAGE
EXPRESSING FIGURES OR
PERCENTAGES
Approximating figures Fractions
(Well/just) over Half
Around A third
About Two thirds
Approximately A quarter
Approaching Three quarters
Almost A fifth
(Well/just) under A tenth
(Slightly) more/ less than
Sample essay:
 model answer:
Most European countries have high
mobile phone use. The biggest users
of mobile phones are the Italians,
with 88 cell phones per 100 people.
For example, Italy has twice as many
mobile phones as landlines, with 88
mobiles per hundred people
compared to 45 for landlines. Mobile
phone use is low in Canada, with
fewer than 40 phones per 100
people. Denmark is also unusual
because it has slightly more
landlines than mobile phones.
 However, in some countries, the number
of landlines is higher than the number of
mobile phones. One example is the USA,
where the number of mobiles, at 50 per
100 people, is much lower than the
number of landlines, at almost 70 per
hundred. A similar pattern can be seen in
Canada. The highest number of landlines
in the graph is in Denmark, with about 90
per 100 people. In contrast, the lowest
figures for fixed lines are in Italy and the
UK.
Tips 4 tasks with more than 1chart

 If there are 2 charts, they often

show different information, you
should compare them.

 If the units are different

(e.g. one chart shows 'millions'
and the other shows
'percentages'), you shouldn’t
usually compare them.
 If the units are the same, you
can probably compare the
charts.

 If there are 3 or 4 charts, you

can usually compare them.

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