This afternoon, I'm going to give the chance to practice the vocabulary used to describe graphs and charts. Please begin by reading the example paragraph from the text about the graph we looked at yesterday.
The graph shows the number of telephones owned
per thousand of the population in different countries over a five-year
period. Overall, the phone owners per
thousand of the population varied considerably.
However, numbers tended to fall in countries with the highest level of
phone ownership whereas numbers generally rose in countries which had fewer
phone owners in 2000. By far, the
highest level of phone ownership was in Singapore where just under 430 people
per thousand were owners in 2004. This
figure is slightly lower than the 2000 figure of around 460 per thousand. In Brunei Darussalam, the second highest
levels of phone ownership were recorded, and the numbers fluctuated around 250
per thousand level across the five years.
Countries like Cambodia and Vietnam has much lower levels of phone
ownership, and these increased up to 2004 rather than decreasing. In the remaining countries, the number of
landline phone owners remained below the 100 per thousand level between 2000
and 2004.
What do you think about this example?
More Vocabulary for describing graphs/charts:
http://www.dcielts.com/task-1-2/trend-vocabulary-ielts/
Please read through this page before trying the exercises in the 'Test Yourself First' section.
Next, you will be doing some listening practice from the Longman TOEFL cds. On the Main Menu, click on Skills, then Listening, and finally Pragmatic Understanding. Please complete as many as you can from Passages 1, 2, and 3.
Enjoy!
