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Describing Statistics in Graphs

This document provides examples and descriptions related to statistics presented in graphs and charts. It includes sample graphs and charts and questions to match them with descriptions of trends over time. Key terms are categorized as related to trends, patterns, verbs indicating increases or decreases. Sentences are completed using prepositions to describe changes in sales figures over time. Adjectives are matched with adverbs to describe the degree of changes shown in sample sales and export graphs.

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Describing Statistics in Graphs

This document provides examples and descriptions related to statistics presented in graphs and charts. It includes sample graphs and charts and questions to match them with descriptions of trends over time. Key terms are categorized as related to trends, patterns, verbs indicating increases or decreases. Sentences are completed using prepositions to describe changes in sales figures over time. Adjectives are matched with adverbs to describe the degree of changes shown in sample sales and export graphs.

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DESCRIBING STATISTICS IN GRAPHS/CHARTS

A. Look at these statistics. Which one is: d.


1. a bar graph?
2. a pie chart?
3. a line chart?
4. a diagram?

a.

B. Look the following graphs. Which sentences do


these graphs describe?

1. 2.

b.

3. 4.

5.
c.
1. The rate of sales increased to 4 million in June. F. Put the adjectives in appropriate columns (small
2. Interest rates decreased by 2% in May. changes and big changes) then complete the
3. Consumer spending rose sharply in November. adverb column
4. The retail price index went up slightly in week
Adverb
36. Adjective
(Describes
5. Production fell steadily in the last quarter of the (Describes a noun)
a verb)
year.
Rapid Slight Slightly
Slight
B. What is the difference between decreased by 2% Sharp Small
and decreased to 2%? Huge changes
Dramatic
C. Listen to a sales manager describing her company’s Gentle
sales figures and say why these things happened. Gradual Sharp Sharply
1. Sales increased in March. Steady
2. Sales fell in May. A lot Big
3. Sales rose in July. A little Changes
4. Sales increased in September. Sudden
Steep
5. Sales went down in November.

D. Complete these sentences about the sales figures. G. Now match the graphs to the correct definitions by
Use a preposition (to, from, by, at, etc.). using the numbers of each graph:
1. Sales stayed ___ 6,000 in February.
2. They rose ___ 7,000 in March ___ 8,000 in April.
3. They decreased ___ 3,000 in May
4. They fell ___ 4,000 in June.
5. They increased ___ 5,000 ___ 6,000 in August.
6. They increased ___ 7,000 between August and
October.
7. They remained steady ___ 7,000 in December.

E. Put the vocabulary into the appropriate column.

 stayed the same Trends/


Verbs
 rose patterns
 increased Going up
 fluctuated
 zig-zagged
 went up
 grew Going down
 dropped
 declined
 levelled off
 stabilized No change
 fluttered
 undulated
 remained
constant
Up and down
 decreased
 fell
 bottomed out
 Peaked
  
a. Sales bottomed out in May […]
b. Sales levelled off from July […]
c. Sales rose steadily over the year […]
d. Sales peaked in June […]
e. Sales remained the same […]
f. Sales increased sharply from June […]
g. Sales rose gradually through the year […]
h. Sales fell steadily through over the year […]

H. Observe the charts then complete this description


with adverb and adjective in F.

U.S. SALES
MILLIONS ($)

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012


MILLIONS ($)
U.S. EXPORTS

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Sales in the U.S. rose 1 _________ between 2007 and


2009. There was a 2 __________ decreased in 2010 when
our main distributor went out business.
Sales rose 3 ________ in 2011, and the 4 _________
improvement in 2012 brought us back to the 2007 level.
There was a 5 _________ rise in exports in 2008. They
went up 6 __________ in 2009 when we began to break
into Chinese market. They rose 7 _________ in 2010
when we signed the new distributor agreements and
there was a 8 _________ increase in 2011 and 2012.

I. Listen again to the audio and write a graph of


company sales figures based on the sales
manager’s explanation.

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