Tugas Modul : Learning Task M5 LA3 Task 1

Nama : Nurmaini. S.Pd

Sekolah : SMPN 01 PALMATAK

Task 3: Understand the main points of information presented in charts

Now, we will focus on exploring charts. This type of GOs is also popular to students and teachers.
Therefore, it is necessary for you, as professional EFL teachers, to understand about how to
comprehend and present information in charts.
What are tables? What is the purpose of presenting information in tables? How to read tables?
How are information presented using them?
Source: www.premierleague.com/page/Statistics/0,,12306,00.html (05/05/2011).
A Do these exercise and quizzes to check your understanding of the explanation in Text 1.
1 Extracting information from bar charts: football results
2 Graphs and charts: Entry 3 quiz

1 Extracting information from bar charts: football results

Answer the following questions using the bar chart above:
1. Who scored the most goals?
1. Dimitar

2. How many goals did Carlos score?

2. 19 Goals

3. Which three players scored ten goals?

3. Johan, Wayne, and Salomon

4. How many more goals did Dimitar score than Didier?

4. 9 Goals
 5. How many players scored more than 15 goals?
5. Two players (Carlos and Dimitar)

2 Graphs and charts: Entry 3 quiz

Level A
1. In a tally chart, what number does this represent?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 8
D) 10

E) 2. In a pictogram if represents 2 people,

then how many people do these symbols represent?

A) 3 people
B) 5 people
C) 6 people
D) 9people
3. Look at this bar chart, how many students have brown eyes?

A) 2 students
B) 3 students
C) 7 students
D) 8 students
4. Look at this pictogram. How many more cans were sold on Friday than on Sunday?

A) 2 cans
B) 10 cans
C) 20 cans
D) 30 cans
5. In a tally chart, frequency means:
A) The number of times something is recorded
B) The mark you make when you are counting things
C) The number of rows in the tally chart
D) The number of columns in a tally6. How many people attended the meeting from
Germany?

A) 5
B) 6
C) 8
D) 10

7. How many people attended the meeting from Belgium and France (see pictogram above)?
A) 10
B) 12
C) 14
D) 20
8. How many people attended the doctor's surgery on Tuesday?

A) 1.5
B) 2
C) 15
D) 20
9. 50 people attended the doctor's surgery on (see pictogram above):
A) Monday
B) Wednesday
C) Thursday
D) Friday
10. Look at this table. The scale shows you that each division represents the sale of how many
drinks?

A) 5 drinks
B) 10 drinks
C) 15 drinks
D) 20 drinks
Level B
1. On a bar chart like this, the vertical axis is:

A. The line along the bottom of the chart

B. The line which goes from top to bottom on the left hand side of the chart
C. Another name for the upright columns
D. Another name for the title
In this chart the vertical axis is labelled 'number of people'.

2. On a bar chart (see above) the horizontal axis is:

A. Another name for the upright columns
B. The line along the bottom of the chart
C. The line which goes from top to bottom on the left hand side of the chart
D. Another name for the title

3. On a pictogram if =10 Christmas trees.

Then how many trees do these symbols represent?

A. and 1/2 trees

B. 30 and 1/2 trees
C. 35 trees
D. 40 trees
4. What's missing from this bar chart?

A. A title
B. A label on the vertical axis
C. A label on the horizontal axis
D. A key
5. What's wrong with this pictogram?

A. There's no title
B. There's no key
C. The boxes are different sizes
D. The number of packets of crisps in each box isn't shown
6. Look at this bar chart. On which day were the fewest newspapers sold?

A. Monday
B. Tuesday
C. Wednesday
D. Friday

7. In total, how many newspapers were sold on Thursday and Friday (see image above)?
A. 15 newspapers
B. 20 newspapers
C. 35 newspapers
D. 36 newspapers
8. Look at this tally chart. Which colour has the wrong number recorded in the total column?

A. Blue
B. Green
C. Red
D. Yellow

9. What is the total number of people who like to attend the gym?
A. 3
 B. 10
C. 11
D. 12
Each "bundle" of tally marks represents 5 people so adding up all the tally marks in the row for
gym is 5 + 5 + 2 = 12

10. The most popular sport (see image above) is…

A. Badminton
B. Football
C. Gym
D. Swimming
As the tally chart shows that more people liked to do this than any of the other options. 23 chose
swimming, which is more than 22 for gym, 7 for football and 6 for badminton.

Level C

1. Look at this tally chart. In total how many people were asked about where they live?

A. 4
B. 7
C. 26
D. 30
2. How many more people live in houses than in bungalows (see image above)?
A. 4
B. 9
C. 13
D. 17
3. Look at this bar chart. What does the key tell you?

A. What the chart is all about

B. The days of the week
C. The number of people who visited the hair salon
D. What each bar colour represents

4. In total, how many people visited the hair salon on Saturday (see image above)?
A. 20
B. 35
C. 50
D. 110
5. A social enterprise generates income through bidding for contracts. The pie chart shows
the income generated in each quarter (3-month period) of one year. The enterprise earned
the most in the 2nd quarter.

A. True
B. False

6. In the first quarter of the year, the enterprise generated more income than in the 4th quarter
(see image above)?
A. True
B. False

7. What is missing from this bar chart?

A. A title
B. Tally marks
C. A horizontal axis
D. A key
 8. Look at this pictogram. How many houses were sold in May?

A) 3 houses
B) 4 houses
C) 12 houses
D) 16 houses

9. If 2 houses were sold in September, then you would show this on the pictogram by adding a
fifth column of:
A. houses
B. 1/2 a house
C. houses
D. You can't show less than 4 houses

10. In which month is there the biggest difference between the temperatures in London and in
Sydney?
A. May
B. June
C. July
D. August
 Now, study this other bar chart carefully to answer the questions listed below.

(1) What does the chart provide information about?

 The chart provides the means of transport used by International visitor to New Zealand
during visit
(2) What is the commonest means of transport? What percentage of visitors use it?
 The commonest means of transport is car with 69% use a car
(3) Which two means of transport are used almost the same amount? What percentage of
visitors use them?
 Plane and Coach are used almost the same amount with 32% of plane and 31% of
coach
(4) What is the fourth most popular means of transport? What percentage of visitors use it?
 The fourth most popular means of transport is Train with 20% visitors use it.
(5) Which means of transport is used least? What percentage of visitors use it?
 Boat is used least with 8% of visitors use it.
(6) Overall, which is more popular: private transport or public transport?
 Private transport is more popular than public transport.

A Line and Pie Charts

In the previous section, you have studied about Bar Chart. Now, learn also about other types
of charts: the line and pie charts here.

 Extracting and interpreting data from line graphs

 Pie charts
 Analyzing Graphs, Diagrams and Statistics. Blue
Now, let’s check how much you understand the lessons. Do the following exercises. When you
finish, check your answer with the answer key.

1 Reading line graphs

Answer these questions based on the line chart that follows.
(1) What information does the chart provide?
 The chart provides the information about montly temperature of three cities for
one year
(2) What is the most possible purpose of the chart?
 To describe temperature changes of three cities in a year and to compare it with
3 cities.
(3) Which month has the highest average monthly temperature in the three cities? What
is the temperature height?
 June is the highest average monthly temperature in three cities and it is 340C.
(4) Which month has the lowest temperature in Cairo? What is the average temperature
for Singapore for the same month?
 It is January in Cairo. It is 260C in Singapore
(5) Which city has the most extreme temperature difference throughout the year? What
is the minimum temperature? What is its highest one?
 New Delhi has the most extreme temperature difference throughout the year.
The minimun temperature is 140C. The highest one is 340C.
 (6) Which city has the most stable temperature? What is the lowest temperature for this
city? When does it happen?
 Singapore has the most stable temperature. The lowest temperatue for this city
is 260C. It happens in January.

2 Reading pie charts

Answer these questions based on the pie chart that follows. Match the questions in the
right column with the best answer from the right column.

(1) What is the main reason for visiting New  for a holiday
Zealand?
(2) What percentage of visitors go to New Zealand  29%
to see friends and family?
(3) What does the figure 13% refer to?
 the number of people who
go to New Zealand on
business
(4) What is meant by other on the chart?
 other reasons
(5) In general, do more people visit New Zealand
 for pleasure
for work or pleasure?
Learn more:  Reading Data Tables & Grapshs. CrestClassroom
 Interpreting graphs and tables. Lauren Naumovski
 Analyzing Graphs, Diagrams and Statistics. Blue
 Lists and tables
 Graphs and charts. BBC-Skillswise