Writing ---- 图表描述 Conducted by Zhang Wei Tongxiang Senior Middle School (Thurs.)

Writing About Graphs ( 图表写作 ) --- Describing graphs ( 图表描述 ) Warming up Types of graphs and charts Vocabulary1: Beginnings Vocabulary2: Numbers Vocabulary3: Words Practice: Describing graphs ③ ④

图表写作 :(1) 背景介绍 + (2) 图表描述 + (3) 发表感想 Recently a survey has been done to find out… In this survey, …….. among the four categories of English articles: news, stories, science articles and articles about learning methods. (1) 背景介绍 __________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ (2) 图表描述 53% 26% 14% 7% (3) 发表感想

1. good/nice Warming up: change the words into different ways useful, great, pleasing, helpful, wonderful bright, brilliant, delightful, first rate, fantastic distinguishing, praise worthy … 2. bad terrible, horrible, severe, serious, awful, painful, nasty, miserable evil, disgusting, horrific, horrifying…

3. like Warming up: change the words into different ways love, enjoy prefer cherish, admire, treasure, appreciate respect value be into be fond of care for delight in prize … fall decline drop decrease sink 4.go down

Types of graphs and charts (1)time graphs describe changes over time (2) comparison graphs compare different items - countries, people, products, places, etc. 53% 7% (1) 26% 14% % 新闻 故事 科普 学习方法 7% (2) 26% 14%

Types of graphs and charts (1) Bar Chart 柱状图 柱形或条形图 (2) Pie Chart 圆形图 分格图

1.As can be seen fromthe graph/table/chart, 2.As is shown/described in the graph/chart, 3.The graph tells/shows the changes between…and…(from…to…), 4.This is a line graph which describes the general trend of… 5.According to the chart, it is clear that… 6.From the chart, we learn that… Vocabulary1: The starting sentences

Vocabulary 2: Numbers 4 ways : numbers, fractions, percentages and times 数字 分数 百分比 倍数 The number went up by 600, from 1200 to (Number) The number went up by half, from 1200 to (Fraction 分数 ) The number went up by 50%, from 1200 to ( Percentage 百分比 ) The number doubled between2005 and2008. The number in2008 was twice the 2005 number. (Times 倍数 )

Prepositions Between 1998 and 2008 From 1998 to Movement: Down Fell Declined Dropped Decreased Sank Went down Vocabulary 3: The Language of Graphs Movement: Up Rose Went up Increased Grew Strong Words (Use Carefully!) Shot up Rocketed 飞速上升

Adverbs slightly a little a lot sharply suddenly steeply gradually gently steadily Vocabulary 3: The Language of Graphs No Movement remained steady were unchanged did not change remained constant remained stable stabilized Tops and Bottoms reached a peak peaked reached the highest level reached a bottom

Practising: 选择各类英语文章人数的百分比 53% 26% 14% 7% 新闻 故事 科普 学习方法 News stories science articles about articles methods

Recently a survey has been done to find out the reading interests of senior middle school students. In this survey, one thousand senior middle school students from ten schools were interviewed. They were asked which they liked reading most among the four categories of English articles: news, stories, science articles and articles about learning methods.( 背景介绍 ) __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ ( 图表描述 ) 53% 26% 14% 7% 新闻 故事 科普 学习方法

Describing the graph: As can be seen from the chart, more than half of the students like to read news most. About a quarter of the students say that English stories are their favorite. Only 7% of the students are most interested in reading articles about learning methods. However, the number of students who enjoy reading popular science articles doubles that of those who prefer reading articles about learning methods. 53% 26% 14% 7% 新闻 故事 科普 学习方法

Writing ---- 图表描述 That’s all. Nice to see you learn something today. Delightful to see you learn something today. z