hi there I'm drew badger the world's
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speaker well today this is another
another requested video people were
were asking about measurements and
and charts and other things like that
that so since people do often give
give presentations I wanted to give
give just a basic example in basic
basic intermediate and more advanced
advanced english about how to describe
describe a simple chart or a simple
simple graph in this case we're going
going to look at a guess it's a pie
pie chart so there are lots of different
different ways of expressing information
information you can have a bar graph
graph where you've got those kind
kind of long rectangles that talk
talk about this percentage of people
people or this number of people or
or you can have a pie chart where
where you're looking at a whole and
and what percentage of people are
are you know achieving something or
or doing something or whatever that
that happens to be so this is just
just a image that I took right from
from the internet so hopefully it's
it's interesting for you but this
this is just the percentage of kind
kind of pet that people have in general
general so we're going to look at
at a simple pie chart and will describe
describe it in basic intermediate
intermediate and more advanced english
english so as we're looking at this
this pie chart here we can see that
that
that fifty-five
fifty-five percent of people have
have dogs and thirty four thirty percent
percent of people have cats six percent
percent of people have fish five percent
percent of people have I believe it's
it's a rabbit's see and then let's
let's see four percent of people have
have rodents now a rodent is anything
anything actually a rabbit is in the
the rodent family but this just means
means things like mice or rats or
or hamsters anything that's got like
like you know big teeth like that
that so in a basic way I'm just describing
describing what the percentages of
of things are and maybe i'm not giving
giving so much interesting information
information i'm just giving you the
the information you can read by yourself
yourself now this is typically what
what things are in Basic English we're
we're just giving a direct explanation
explanation about something that really
really you could just read by looking
looking at the chart now any more
more intermediate way we can talk
talk about the relationships between
between these two things so
so we could say many more people have
have dogs than have rodents so I'm
I'm talking about again not like just
just saying you know six percent of
of people have fish or thirty percent
percent of people have cats i'm talking
talking about a relationship between
between the two so in a more intermediate
intermediate way I could say well
well many people or a majority of
of people have dogs so of the people
people that have pets i'm talking
talking about the whole group of the
the people that have pets a majority
majority have dogs to a majority just
just means more than fifty percent
percent so it could be 51-percent
51-percent or in this case since we're
we're not just comparing two things
things it's really like a large majority
majority because most of the people
people that have pets they have a
a dog as opposed to you know having
having something like a cat or a fish
fish or a bird or something so
so that's a way of describing in an
an intermediate way but now if we
we want to talk about the same chart
chart or the same pie chart in a more
more advanced way we can just again
again where we're trying to get more
more more interesting information
information maybe provide some stories
stories for that try to give some
some reasons why we're seeing the
the data that we're seeing high and
and so we'll do that in a more advanced
advanced way so looking at this pie
pie chart here we can see that a majority
majority of people maybe not a vast
vast majority so it's not seventy
seventy or eighty percent of pet owners
owners are dog owners but a majority
majority of people fifty-five
fifty-five percent of people that
that own pets have a dog now it's
it's interesting that more people
people would like a dog than a cat
cat and so this graph demonstrates
demonstrates that it shows that more
more people are maybe dog lovers then
then cat lovers and it's interesting
interesting to think about why that
that might be so we don't want to
to just look at the data we want to
to maybe draw some conclusions or
or create a few hypotheses about that
that so maybe some reasons why something
something like that might happen so
so maybe you know the history of dogs
dogs dogs have been living with us
us for a really long time and humans
humans have had maybe just a much
much closer relationship with dogs
dogs and we bring dogs into the house
house but cats are maybe they live
live with us but they're not like
like man
like man best
best friend like we would describe
describe a dog so we can see like
like this graph here it would give
give us an example of well I guess
guess it makes sense that dogs are
are maybe more numerous so more numerous
numerous meaning they're more of them
them for people that own pets then
then there are four people that own
own cats or rodents or rabbits or
or fish so people that like fish is
is a small fraction of total pet owners
owners so if we want again we're moving
moving from dog owners to maybe someone
someone that has a rodent like a hamster
hamster or a rat or a mouse or someone
someone that has a fish so a tiny
tiny fraction of people so a fraction
fraction just means a small percentage
percentage you can have a large fraction
fraction so a big fraction of people
people have dogs but a tiny fraction
fraction and typically when we use
use the word fraction we're talking
talking about a small thing even though
though fraction just means a piece
piece of something but a tiny fraction
fraction of people have rodents so
so and up that maybe that's even a
a smaller percentage that has a hamster
hamster so maybe hamsters are only
only 1% of pet owners actually I had
had a hamster actually had a few hamsters
hamsters when I was younger I never
never had any rats or mice but I had
had a few different times of hamsters
hamsters when I was younger so again
again in the native we were trying
trying to not only explain the information
information but explain why maybe
maybe it's happening we can explain
explain the research that we did or
or how we did that are talking to
to the owners of these pets and trying
trying to figure out how we got more
more information about that but then
then we can also inject our own personal
personal information whatever that
that happens to be in my case I had
had a hamster I've never owned a dog
dog i did own fish actually I had
had both freshwater and saltwater
saltwater fish but again these are
are just information or pieces of
of information we're having to make
make the chart more interesting because
because if you just look at a circle
circle chart maybe
maybe you can say ìokay more people
people preferred cats or more people
people preferred cats than rodents
rodents but we don't really understand
understand why so much so going into
into the details about why something
something might happen this
this is where you illuminate so to
to illuminate means to shed light
light so to make more brightness to
to make something more clear and easy
easy to see to illuminate why something
something
something happens
happens especially if you're giving
giving a presentation about something
something so going deeper into the
the data to explain why something
something happens is going to be much
much more important for a presentation
presentation well
well this has been helpful do like
like this video let me know in the
the comments below if you'd like to
to know more about this or if their
their specific a particular maybe
maybe business situations or other
other situations in your daily life
life where you have to explain something
something and maybe you have trouble
trouble doing that so I'd like to
to make more videos where I can try
try to help people explain things
things as a native speaker would anyway
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