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Conducted by Zhang Wei Tongxiang
Senior Middle School 20080508 (Thurs.)
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Warming up change the words into different ways
1. good/nice
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
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Warming up change the words into different ways
3. like
4.go down
fall decline drop decrease sink
love,enjoyprefer cherish,admire,treasure,
appreciaterespect
valuebe into be fond ofcare for delight
inprize
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Writing About Graphs(????) ---
Describing graphs(????)
What are graphs and charts? Types of graphs and
charts Vocabulary1 Beginnings Vocabulary2
Numbers Vocabulary3 Words Practice Describing
graphs
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words
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????(1)???? (2)???? (3)???? 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)
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(2)????
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(3)????
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What are graphs and charts?
Graphs, charts, and tables are ways of presenting
information. Graphs and charts are pictures
which show numbers or figures.
tables are just rows and columns of information.
2000 2005 2008
1200 1800 3600
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Types of graphs and charts
graphs ???,??????????
line graph ??
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Types of graphs and charts
(1)time graphs describe changes over time
(2) comparison graphs compare different items -
countries, people, products, places, etc.
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Types of graphs and charts
chart ??,????????????
(1) Bar Chart?????????
(2) Pie Chart??????
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Vocabulary1 The starting sentences
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
betweenand(fromto), 4.This is a line graph
which describes the general trend
of5.According to the chart, it is clear
that6.From the chart, we learn that
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Vocabulary 2 Numbers
4 ways numbers, fractions , percentages and
times ?? ?? ???
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2000 2005 2008
1200 1800 3600
The number went up by 600, from 1200 to 1800.
(Number) The number went up by half, from 1200
to 1800.
(Fraction??) The number
went up by 50, from 1200 to 1800.
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Percentage???) The number doubled between2005
and2008. The number in2008 was twice the 2005
number.
(Times ??)
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Vocabulary 3 The Language of Graphs
Movement Up Rose Went up Increased Grew
Strong Words (Use Carefully!) Shot up
Rocketed ????
Prepositions Between 1998 and 2008 From 1998 to
20008 Movement Down Fell Declined Dropped
Decreased Sank Went down
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Vocabulary 3 The Language of Graphs

• Adverbs
• slightly
• a little
• a lot
• sharply
• suddenly
• steeply
• gradually
• gently
• steadily

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
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Practising ??????????????
?? ?? ?? ????News stories
science articles about
articles methods
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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.(????)___________
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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 7of 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
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Thats all. Nice to see you learn something
today.
Delightful to see you learn something today.