Lesson 1: Task 1 - Foundation
Exercise 5: using the structures provided, write the sentences describing the
chart below.
1. Describe the figures for cell phone services from 2001 to 2010 in two
different methods.
Method 1: The average spending on cell phone services showed a surge
throughout the period.
Method 2: Over a 10-year period, there was a significant increase in the
average expense on cell phone services.
2. Describe the figures for residental phone services from 2001 to 2010 in two
different methods.
Method 1: From 2001 to 2010, the average expenditure on residental phone
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Lesson 5 - Task 1 - Static bar charts
I. Overview
- Compare the object in the graph.
II. Lesson content
1. Write overview for static charts
2. Group and classify objects
3. The structure describes 2 objects in the same period
Exercise 1.
1. She is an undergraduate student at the University of Washington.
2. He decided to enroll in a course on digital marketing.
3. Her major is business administration with a focus on marketing.
4. He wants to persue marketing as a careet after graduation.
5. He decided to major in (phr v) economics because he was interested in
the global economy.
6. He notieced that his female counterparts were more likely to choose
marketing or finance as their majors.
7. The male economics major was surprised by the gender gap in his field of
study.
8. She wanted to select accounting as a major because she enjoyed working
with numbers and data.
III. How to write an introduction
Exercise 2
Step 1: Analyse the task
1 Graph name Bar chart
2 What The information about students studying six main
subjects
3 Where A US university
4 When 2010
5 Category Marketing, accounting, finance, economics,
engineering, mathmetics.
6 Measurement Male & female
7 Tense Past simple tense
Step 2: Write the introduction
Graph name + V(present simple) + what/where/when
Exercise 3:
1. The graph illustrates undegraduates (lỗi chính tả - undergraduates)
studying differents computer science subjects at a US university in 2011.
2. The bar chart illustrates the percentage of students in both genders (of
both genders) studying art subjects at a UK university in 2011.
IV. HOW TO WRITE OVERVIEW
1st sentence: decribes magnitude
> Overall, the most significant + [unit] + can be seen in / was in +
[category] + while there was the fewest/the least + [unit] + [category]
> Overall, [category] + is/was the highest, whearas the opposite is/was
true for + [category]
> In addition / Moreover, the biggest/largest/greatest difference was
seen in/recorded in + [category]
2nd sentence: describes difference
Exercise 4: Write an overview for the chart.
Overall, the most significant number of students enrolled in finance was the
highest (thừa - most significatnt & highest - chọn 1 thôi), whearas the
opposite was true for engineering. (chưa rõ nghĩa - cần rõ hơn) In addition,
the biggest diffence (sai chính tả) was recorded in mathematics.
Rewrite:
Overall, the most significant number of undergraduates was in finance,
whereas engineering had the lowest enrollment. In addition, the biggest
difference was observed in mathematics.
V. Structure describes 2 subjects in the same period.
1. S1 + stood at + [data], times + [as many/ much as] + that of S2
2. At [data], S1 + V + times + [as many/ much as] + that of S2
3. S1 + stood at + [data], difference + higher than S2
VI. Vocabulary
1. Area of qualifications: Lĩnh vực chuyên môn
2. The former: Đối tượng đầu trong 2 đối tượng được liệt kê
3. The latter: Đối tượng sau trong 2 đối tượng được liệt kê
4. Foreign matter: Tạp chất
5. Age brackets: A specific category or range of ages
Age group paraphrases
16 - 24: Teenagers People between 16 and 24 years old
24 - 35: Young adults People aged 24 to 35
35 - 50: Adults 35 to 50 years old
50 - 75: Retireers The 50 to 75 age group
75 - 100: Seniors People over/under the age of 75/100
A. Fill in the gaps with the suitble words to complete the introduction and the
overview.
The bar chart compares the levels of education of five different age groups in
the UK in 2010.
Overall, most people in the older groups had no or low-level qualifications
while most younger groups have universtiy degrees.
B. Translate these sentences
1. For the age groups 16-24, 24-35, and 35-50, about 9% was ( % chỉ người
phải dùng were) non-graduates, twice lower than (không tự nhiên, ko chính
xác - half of, twice as low as) that of people with highschool degrees, while the
graduates comprised roughly 72%.
Rewrite:
For the age groups 16 24, 24 -35, and 35 -50, about 9% were non-graduates,
which was half the percentage of those with only a highschool degree, while
graduates made up approximately 72%.
>>> Translated sentence:
For age groups 16-24, 24-35, and 35-50, around 9% of people had no
qualifications, which was less than half the proportion of those with a
highschool diploma (20%), and nearly eight times lower than the percentage of
university graduates (72%).