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ENGL145 Midterm Writing Practice - With Answer

The document provides writing practice exercises related to analyzing trends, completing sentences in different tenses, and summarizing an infographic. In the first section, students are asked to choose the correct option to complete sentences about worldwide trends. The second section contains sentences to complete in the present simple and present continuous tenses about Twitter usage statistics. The third section asks students to write a 150-180 word paragraph summarizing key facts from an infographic about Facebook usage stats in 2016.

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ENGL145 Midterm Writing Practice - With Answer

The document provides writing practice exercises related to analyzing trends, completing sentences in different tenses, and summarizing an infographic. In the first section, students are asked to choose the correct option to complete sentences about worldwide trends. The second section contains sentences to complete in the present simple and present continuous tenses about Twitter usage statistics. The third section asks students to write a 150-180 word paragraph summarizing key facts from an infographic about Facebook usage stats in 2016.

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ENGL145 Midterm Writing Practice

1)Read about world trends. Then choose the correct option to complete the sentences.

1. The number of people living in cities is (decreasing/growing).

2. Smartphone use is definitely (increasing/improving).

3. The use of Welsh is (becoming less common/ getting poorer).

4. The sale of music CDs is (falling/rising).

5. Internet crime is (getting worse/shrinking).

6. Bill Gates is (becoming more widespread/ getting richer).


2)Look at the infographic again. Complete the sentences with the present simple and
present continuous.

Twitter 1 has (have) over 645 million users and new people 2 are joining (join) all the

time. These users 3  (send) over one billion tweets every five days. At this very

moment 9,000 people in the world 4 (send) a tweet. 40% of Twitter users 5

(not / tweet), but they 6 (look) at other people's tweets. The most followed

things on Twitter are pop singers and YouTube. 51.6 million people 7 (follow) Katy

Perry and 40 million people   (follow) YouTube. Twitter's advertising revenue 9

 (also / grow) rapidly. Twitter 10 (employ) 2,000 people, but it 11

(recruit) more people at the moment because of its growth in popularity.


3) The image below shows the Facebook Usage Stats in the year 2016. Write a 150-180 word

paragraph describing the facts that you see.  


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Facebook

In this paragraph, I will describe the above infographic on Facebook Usage Stats in the year

2016.Firstly, according to the infographic Facebook. has 1.65 billion active users worldwide.

Secondly,91% of millennials using Facebook are between the age group of 15 and 34 years.

Next, the average time Facebook users spend on this social platform is over 20 minutes.

Interestingly, more than 4.5 billion likes are generated daily on this platform. Moreover,

Facebook is getting richer as 3.7 billion revenues has been generated in the first quarter of

2016.According to research, the best time to post on Facebook is between 1 to 4 pm during the

week days and weekends. However, reports show that the engagement is lower by 3.5% on

Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. To conclude, all necessary information on Facebook Usage

Stats in the year 2016 as shown in the infographic are included in the paragraph.

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