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PAGE  PAGE 5 unit1 Task教案 牛津版 Skills building 1: listening for statistics and descriptions In this part, you are to learn to gain information from statistics. And listen for fractions, decimals, percentages and descriptions of statistics. 1. Let’s first review the expressions of fractions, decimals and percentages. 1/2 (a/one half) 2/3 (two thirds) 4/7 (four/sevenths) 0.45(zero/ nought point four five) 9.89(nine point eight nine) 6.79 six point seven nine 58% (fifty-eight per cent) 36.36%(thirty-six point three six ) 2. Go over Point 1 on page 12 how to read fractions, decimals and percentages. Now, let’s turn to and learn them together. 3. Go over Point 2 on page 12 to make sure you know how to describe an increase, a decrease, no change, trends, a range, an average, and a limit. an increase There was an increase of 56 per cent. The price has gone up by 9 per cent. ·a decrease There was a decrease of 36 per cent. The figure / amount / rate decreased/ fell by 21 per cent. ·no change There was no change. The figure / amount / rate remained/ stayed the same. ·a range The sales figures vary between 30 and 40 per cent/ from 35 to 50. ·an average The average age was 56. ·a limit The maximum price reached ＄67. The figures fell to their lowest level.4. Listen to the tape and do the exercises on page 12. Tapescript 1 Two years ago, the number of members stood at one thousand two hundred. By the following year, it had grown by a hundred. We started off quite well five years ago. Our market share rose to eighty-five per cent. Unfortunately, last year, it fell by twenty per cent. Consumption figures for this year ranged between fifty and sixty per cent. Over the next few years, the figure will reach seventy-five point five per cent. A lot of our students continue their education at local universities or abroad. Last year, the percentage of students from our school studying at local universities was twenty-three point four compared to