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Hi everyone, Welcome to our newsletter. This week we've continued with our graphical data lessons. We've updated our academic writing and speaking lesson on describing graphs: analysis and evaluation. The lesson explains how to analyse and evaluate graphs using a range of analytical and evaluative phases. See example worksheet.
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Video on describing graphs
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Describing graphs: analysis and evaluation (updated 2023)
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This lesson begins with describing basic graphs and suggesting what they could represent. It then provides the language necessary for describing, analysing and evaluating. This is followed by students researching and analysing graphs/charts/tables from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) and giving a short presentation of their findings. Example. Level: ***** [B1/B2/C1] TEACHER MEMBERSHIP / INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP
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Language Development
Useful graph language: Description
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The graph from (source) presents data on (title)…
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The graph from (source) shows/ illustrates (title)…
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If we look at this graph on (title) from (source) you can see…
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The y axis (vertical) is… and the x axis (horizontal) is…
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(Graph) These lines represent… (Bar) These Columns are… (Pie) These segments are…
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Useful graph language: analysis
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Overall summary: Overall, there is / has been… / Generally, there is…
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What you can see is… / From the graph we can see…
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I’d like to focus your attention on…
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If you look at this…, you’ll see / notice / understand
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A key significant area is … / Two key significant areas are…
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An important point is… / Two important points I’d like to illustrate are…
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What is interesting here is…
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An interesting observation is…
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An analysis of the graph illustrates…
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Useful graph language: evaluation
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This seems to suggest that…
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This is possibly because of…
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This is (clearly) due to…
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One reason for this could be…
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An evaluation of this data suggests / provides evidence for / highlights…
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To provide evidence to my previous point the graph highlights…
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Overall, this highlights the significance of…
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Therefore, this provides evidence that…
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Example
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Language: Describe the graph using the phrases below to help you
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- The graph from (source) shows/ illustrates (title)…
- The y-axis is… and the x-axis is…
- Overall, GDP has remained… between…
- I’d like to focus your attention on two key significant areas.
- (Analysis) The first one is ………. (explain data)
- (Evaluation) This is/was possibly because of ….
- (Analysis) The second one is ……. (explain data)
- (Evaluation) This is / was clearly due to …………
- Overall, this graph highlights the evidence that…
- A future prediction is that……
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Describing graphs: analysis and evaluation (updated 2023)
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This lesson begins with describing basic graphs and suggesting what they could represent. It then provides the language necessary for describing, analysing and evaluating. This is followed by students researching and analysing graphs/charts/tables from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) and giving a short presentation of their findings. Example. Level: ***** [B1/B2/C1] TEACHER MEMBERSHIP / INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP
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The AEUK Team
Newsletter #132
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Recent Posts
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Describing Graphs: Analysis & Evaluation
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May 2023. Describing Graphs (Analysis & Evaluation). This lesson shows how analyse and evaluate a graph using a variety of language phrases. It focuses on a set procedure of graphical...
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Describing Graphs (The Basics)
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May 2023. Describing Graphs (the basics. )This lesson shows how to label a graph correctly, and how to describe a graph using a variety of language (increase, grow, fall, plummet,..
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April 2023. Describing ResultsThis webpage provides information on how to describe the results from a questionnaire. It provides language for describing quantities, group sizes...
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March 2023. Medical English Vocabulary. The Medical Academic Word List (MAWL) contains 623 non-subject specific and medical words which were selected because ...
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March 2023. TED-Ed Medicine Lectures. A selection of short animated mini lectures based around the TED-Ed medicine website. Each listening is about 4-6 minutes long and ...
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Feb 2023. Academic English Mini Lectures. Here are a range of mini lecture listenings and worksheets. Each listening is about 3-4 minutes long and includes video/mp3, PPT slides...
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More blog articles
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