基英图表作文.ppt

Writing Workshop Diagram Writing Learn to Describe a Diagram Tips: 1content 2change 3statistics Active voice: The above table shows/demonstrates/tells/illustrates… Passive voice: …can be seen from the picture/table/chart/figure… Example: Chinese mobile productions Step 1: Content 图表内容 1. What is the diagram about? 2. what (changes) does it show? Useful tips: As is clearly shown/illustrated/demonstrated by the diagram/table, …; As depicted in the graph, the past few years have seen/witnessed some dramatic changes with regard to … As can be seen from the graph, … What is shown in the diagram above indicates that dramatic changes have taken place in the number of …; Step 2: Change 变化 1. overall change: dramatic/important/great/keeps the same/moves smoothly… 2. increase: a. … is in a period of economic/productive growth. b. … is going up/increase by a large/small margin. c. … is on a steady/dramatic/rapid increase/rise. 3. decrease: a. … is on a steady/dramatic/rapid decrease/fall… b. … is going down/descending by a large/small margin. c. … is in a period of economic/productive decline. Step 3: Specific Statistics 1. simplistic （一般式） E.g. The number of … grew/dropped from … to … 2. comparative （比较式） E.g. Compared with /In comparison with…, the number of … rise/increase/drop/decrease by *%/ to … in the year of … 3. transitional （转折式） E.g. In 1998, the number of … is …, while/but the number of … is …in 2000. Presentation Tips As depicted in the graph, the past four years have seen/witnessed some important changes with regard to the production and export of cell phones in China. In the year of 1999, china produced about 39.6 million phones and exported 2 million. Three years later, both the production and export grew sharply to 750 and 390 respectively. 2010-1 MBA