hello everyone welcome to my channel
this is Dori, I am a teacher of English and in today's
video I'm going to give you some useful expressions and vocabulary
you can use in your academic writing task
1 in order to describe what you can see in
your chart, in your diagram etc. So,
Let's begin! So, if you see that a value
steadily decreases, as in this case
where the value is falling gradually, then you can use
the phrase downward tendency
over here. and an example in order to use this
phrase would be
Of course this is just an example, just to show you how
you can use these kind of phrases in order for you to be familiar with them
but you can use it of course in any way you like
according to your own specific topic
okay now similarly, if
you have a value that gradually increases
over a period of time as this one, you can use the phrase
upward tendency okay this is an upward
tendency and an example would be
just an example. okay? now if a diagram
of a certain value looks like that
then we can talk about a stable
or a steady performance. on the contrary,
if a value in the diagram
looks like that, it is kind of unpredictable we cannot
predict its evolution, then we talk about
an unstable or an unsteady
performance okay so, let's see an example for both
just an example again nothing to memorise
or to use exactly like that
now in this case over here we have two values
to compare so this one here
falls down and this one
increases okay but it is kind of sudden
you can see that in both cases so in this case
we can talk about an abrupt
or a sudden fall in this case, the blue case
or an abrupt, sudden increase
or rise in this case in the green case so you can use
these adjectives over here to describe something like that
and in the blue case you can use fall or drop
or in the green case here you can use the noun
increase or rise so we can have: distinct fall-
distinct drop, abrupt fall- abrupt drop, sudden fall-sudden drop, significant fall or drop
sudden fall sudden drop significant
fall or drop major fall/drop and accordingly distinct increase
or rise, abrupt increase or rise, sudden increase or rise
et cetera et cetera et cetera you can use them any way you like
accordingly and your vocabulary has
more variety in this way when you describe okay so let's see an example
Of course, since you're mainly going to describe what you can see in the diagram
or chart or whatever,
you need some useful expressions and phrases to get you
started so for example you can use
the chart or diagram shows
this is very useful to start your introduction
your introductory paragraph by
paraphrasing topic
these 3 verbs are very useful and you can use them
accordingly through your whole essay
other phrases that are very very useful
and they are also used in the passive voice which is
formal way of writing, other such phrases are
Ok, these are just examples but you can use them accordingly
throughout your whole essay,okay? you will also need some vocabulary
in order to describe how the values change over time so let's
go and check out some verbs
along with their antonyms okay here are some verbs
and their antonyms that will really
really really help you for example they all
mean the same thing but it is for you to have variety in your phrasing
and of course you can embellish
these verbs with these adverbs
For example, you can say "steadily increasing", "gradually
decreasing", "significantly falling"
or rising etc. you can do
anything you want with these words. Other useful expressions are: the majority or minority of someting
Ok, that's it for today, I hope it helps!
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Good luck with your exam!