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Writing Writing Task 1 –Vocabulary T1 – Week 6
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Writing Task 1

1. Vocabulary for the Introduction:

Starting Presentation Type Verb Description

The given / The diagram / table / shows / the comparison of ….

supplied / The figure / represents / the differences ….
presented / The illustration / depicts / the number of ….
shown / The graph / figure / illustrates / information on ….
provided chart / flow presents/ gives / data on ….
chart / picture/ provides / the proportion of….
presentation/ pie describes / the amount of ….
chart / bar graph/ compares/ information on....
line graph / table shows / figures /
data/ data / gives data on /
information gives information
on/ presents
information
about/ shows data
about

Example:
1. The provided diagram shows data on employment categories in energy producing sectors in
Europe starting from 1925 to 1985.
2. The given pie charts represent the proportion of male and female employee in 6 broad
categories, divided into manual and non-manual occupations.
3. The chart gives information on expenditures of 4 European countries on six consumer
products namely Germany, Italy, Britain and France.

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 2. Vocabulary for the Overview:

In general, In common, As is presented, Generally speaking, As is observed.

Example:
1. In general the employment opportunity has increased till 1970 and has dropped down
afterward.
2. As is observed, the figures for imprisonment in the five mentioned countries show no overall
pattern of increase or decrease but rather show a considerable fluctuation from country to
country.
3. Generally speaking, USA had far more standard life than all the other 4 mentioned countries.

3. Vocabulary for the Detail Paragraphs:

A. Vocabulary to show the changes:

Trends Verb form Noun Form

Increase rise / increase / go up / uplift / a rise / an increase / an

rocketed / climb / upsurge / soar. upward trend / a growth

Decrease fall / decrease / decline / plummet / a fall / a decrease / a

plunge / drop / reduce reduction / a downward trends
/a downward tendency / a
decline/ a drop

Steadiness unchanged / level out / remain a steadiness/ a plateau / a

constant / remain steady / plateau / stability/ a static
remain the same / remain stable /
remain static

Gradual Increase an upward trend / an upward

------ tendency / a ceiling trend

Gradual decrease a downward trend / a

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 ------ downward tendency / a
descending trend

Standability leveled off / remained constant /

remained unchanged / remained --------
stable / prevailed consistency /
plateaued / reached a plateau /
stayed uniform /immutable / leveled
out

Examples:
1. The overall sales of the company have increased by 20% at the end of the year.
2. The expenditure of the office remained constant for the last six months but the profit rose
by almost 25%.
3. There was a 15% drop in the student enrollment of the University.
4. The population of the country remained almost the same as it was two years ago.

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 B. Vocabulary to represent changes in graphs:

Type of Adverb form Adjective form

Change

Rapid dramatically / dramatic / rapid / sharp

change rapidly / sharply / / quick / hurried /
quickly / hurriedly / speedy / swift
speedily / swiftly

Moderate moderately / gradually moderate / gradual /

change / progressively / progressive /
sequentially sequential

Slight slightly / slowly / slight / slow / mild /

change mildly / tediously tedious

Example:
1. The economic inflation of the country increased sharply by 20% in 2008.
2. There was a sharp drop in the industrial production in the year 2009.
3. The demand for new houses dramatically increased in 2002.

C. Vocabulary to represent frequent changes in graphs:

Type of Verb form Noun form

Change

Rapid ups and wave / fluctuate / waves / fluctuations /

downs oscillate / vacillate / oscillations /
palpitate vacillations /
palpitations

Example:
1. The price of the raw materials fluctuated for the first three months.
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2. The graph shows the oscillations of the price of fuel from 1998 to 2002.

D. Vocabulary to represent highest and lowest point in graphs:

Type Verb Noun

Highest peak / culminated / climax / reach a a peak / hit a vertex / get a vertex /
Point peak / hit a peak / touch the highest get the highest point
point / reach the vertex

Lowest touched the lowest point / get the the lowest point /the lowest mark /
Point lowest point / bottommost point / rock bottom
point/ bottommost mark

Example:
1. The price of the oil reached a peak amounting $20 in February and again touched the lowest
point amounting only $10 in July.
2. Student enrollment in foreign Universities and Colleges increased dramatically hitting a peak
of over twenty thousand in 2004.

E. Vocabulary to represent comparison in graphs:

Type Word(s) should be used

Similar about / almost / nearly / roughly / approximately /

around / just about / very nearly /

Just over just above / just over / just bigger / just beyond /
just across

Just short just below / just beneath / just sort / just under /
just a little

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 Much well above / well beyond / well across / well over
more

Much less well below / well under / well short / well beneath

Example:
1. The number of high-level women executives is well beneath the number of male executives in
this organization where approximately 2000 people work in executive levels.
2. About 1000 people died in highway car accidents in 2003 which is well above the statistics of
all other years.
3. The number of domestic-violence cases was just below 500 in March which is just a little over
the previous months.
Words to make a comparison / contrast:
a bit / slightly / a little / only just / approximately / about / almost / precisely / quite /
nearly / considerably / a huge / a great deal / quite a lot / completely / exactly

Example:
» This year’s population growth of the country is slightly larger than the previous year.
» This year’s population grown is almost twice that of 2007.
» Sales of the company have increased quite a lot this year.

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