The line graph displays three varieties of fast foods (Hamburger, pizza and fish and

chips) purchased by Australian teens over a 25-year period.

Overall, both pizza and hamburger consumption rose steadily as the years progressed
until it remained steady by the year 2000, while fish and chips started strong at the
beginning of the time period, then gradually plummeted reaching its lowest point at the
end of 2000.

On the one hand, Australian teenagers didn’t opt to eat pizzas in 1975, as below 10
instances were recorded, however, as the years passed by, an upward trend can be
observed in the number of pizzas consumed by Australian youths, as it reached its
highest peak in 2000 at over 80 times per year. Similarly, the same can be said for eating
hamburgers, below 20 hamburgers were consumed in 1975, this steadily increased until
it reached its maximum peak at 100 hamburgers consumed per year by the year 2000.

On the other hand, fish and chips started out as being very popular.   An average of a
whopping 100 fish and chips were eaten in 1975 though it slightly decreased in 1980
(almost 80 times) then slowly rose again after 5 years ( 1985, 90 times) nonetheless it
continued to decrease as the years passed by where in the year 2000 it plummeted and
reached its lowest peak at nearly 40 fish and chips.

Word count - 231 / Band score – 8

1. (Time period) + Subject + Verb to describe change + Adverb to describe

E.g: Between May and October, sales decreased slightly.

2. (Time period) + “There” to introduce the subject + article + Adjective to

Nouns (+Preposition)
Direction Verbs
 
Go Up 1.Go up 1.Go up
Followed by prepositions: Followed by prepositions:
From…(number/%) From…(number/%) to…umber/%)
 to...number/%)
In+ “what”
Go….(number/%)
 
By…(number/%)
A rise
To rise
An increase
To increase
Show an upward trend
To go up
A growth
To grow
Show an upturn
To climb
2.Go up a lot
2.Go up a lot
Show a surge
To surge
Show an upsurge
To take off
 
To shoot up
 
To soar
 
To rocket
A jump
To jump
A leap
To leap
A boom
To boom
A bounce
To bounce
 
 
1.Go down 1.Go down
Followed by prepositions: Followed by prepositions:
From…(number/%) to… From…(number/%) to…
(number/%) (number/%)
To….(number/%)      In+ “what”
To decrease A decrease
To fall A fall
To decline A decline
To drop A drop
To reduce A reduction
Go Down To go down A downturn
To slip A slip
To dip A dip
  A downward trend
2.Go down a lot 2.Go down a lot
To plummet A plummet
To slump A slump
To crash A crash
To sink A sink
To tumble A tumble
To plunge A plunge
No change No change
Followed by “at” (number/%) Followed by “at” (number/%)
To level off A leveling off
To flatten out No change
Remain To stagnate  
To stabilize Show stability
To stay/ To remain/ To keep  
constant/ stable/ steady  
/unchanged/the same level  
 Followed by “at”, “of”
To peak at
To reach a peak at
To bottom out at
To hit a low point/a trough/ the
lowest/ the largest of
Change of direction  
To fluctuate/ vary around
To show some fluctuation
(variation)
To stand at ( focus on a
particular point)
To plateau/ to reach a plateau at

2.Khi muốn miêu tả chi tiết hơn về mức độ của sự thay đổi, ta cần dùng thêm Adjectives- Tính từ and Adverbs- Trạng từ
Degree Adj- Tính từ Adv- Trạng từ

dramatic Dramatically

Huge  
Very extensive change
Enormous Enormously

tremendous Tremendously

Substantial Substantially

Considerable Considerably
Extensive change
Remarkable Remarkably

Significantly Significantly

Noticeable Noticebly

Avarage change Marked Markedly

moderate Moderately

Slight Slightly

Small change Small  

minimal minimally

Miêu tả tốc độ của sự thay đổi:

Slow slowly

Gradual Gradually

Steady Steadily
 Sudden Suddenly

Quick Quickly

Swift Swift

rapid Rapidly

 
Lưu ý:

 “Soar “and “rocket” là hai động từ rất mạnh mẽ mô tả tăng lên khá cao. “Rocket” là bất ngờ hơn. Khi sử dụng từ này bạn không
cần thêm trạng từ
  “Leap” cho thấy một sự gia tăng lớn và đột ngột. Với động từ này cũng không cần thêm trạng từ.
 “Climb” là một động từ tương đối trung lập có thể được sử dụng với các trạng từ bên dưới.
  “Plummet” là từ mạnh nhất để miêu tả sự giảm xuống. Nó có nghĩa là giảm rất nhanh chóng và một chặng đường dài. “Drop”
and “drop” are normally used for fairly small decreases
  “Drop” and “Dip” cũng thường được dùng như một danh từ. Ví dụ như “a slight dip”,  “a sudden drop”
  “sudden” and “sharp” có thể được dùng cho những thay đổi nhẹ nhưng diễn ra đột ngột.
 “spectacular” and “dramatic” là những tính từ mạnh dùng miêu tả những thay đổi rất rất lớn.
 “marginal” is a particularly useful word for describing very small changes
  “overall” có thể được dùng để miêu tả sự thay đổi trong suốt thời gian dài, rất hữu ích và hay được sử dụng trong phần mở bài
và phần kết luận.
 “upward” and “downward” là những tính từ, trạng từ của nó là “upwards” and “downwards” 

The graph below shows the number of books read by men and women at Burnaby Public
Library from 2011 to 2014.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

The graph gives information about Burnaby Public Library between 2011 and 2014. It shows how
many library books people read over this four-year period.

As can be seen from the graph, there were different trends for men and women. The number of
books read by men increased steadily between 2011 and 2012, from about 3000 to 4000. After
that, the number rose dramatically to 14000 books in 2014. This was the highest figure in the
period.

Women started off reading more books than men, but their numbers followed a different pattern.
Between 2011 and 2012, there was an increase of 3000 from 5000 books to 8000 books, and then
a gradual rise to 10000 books in 2013. However, in 2014, their numbers fell back to 8000 again.

Overall, there was a strong upward trend in the number of books read by men. Although women
read more books than men in 2011, their reading fell to below the level of men in 2014.

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