Level 3 Writing

Information Transfer 2

Pie Charts Your Pie Chart test is this week on Wednesday in class. Get ready! For the class test, you will have to write a report of at least 100 words about a pie chart. You will have 20 minutes to write the report. Name: ______________________________ ID: __________________ Section: ________________ Teacher: ___________________________

1. Starting with the amount:

The highest

The greatest

The largest

A significant

The smallest

The lowest

percentage of

proportion of

number of

women

books read

tourists

attended university.

were Arabic.

came from Russia

2. Starting with the subject:

Pizza made up the

largest

second largest

smallest

percentage

of the total.

Pizza was the

Law was the

Fords were the

most

second/third most

least

popular

common

food.

major.

cars.

WRITING ABOUT PIE CHARTS

Tips for writing about pie charts Name the largest section first

Compare other sections to the largest section or to each other.

Look for ways to compare the different sections of the chart

Use comparative adjectives (adjective + er)

Use superlative adjectives (adjective + est)

Use “more than” or “less than”

Describing One Part of a Pie Chart

1. Starting with the amount

As many

Twice as many

Three times as many

Not as many

Landcruisers

students

shopping malls

were sold

came from Oman

were in Dubai

as…

More/ far more

Much/Many more

A lot/A few more

Considerably more

Significantly more

Slightly more

Fractionally more

Landcruisers

students

shopping malls

were sold

came from Oman

were in Dubai

than…

2. Starting with the subject

Drinking coffee was

Nokia phones were

Swiss watches were

as

just as

nearly as

almost as

not as

common

popular

as…

more

much more

far more

considerably more

slightly more

less

slightly less

fractionally less

far less

than…

Describing Two Parts of a Pie Chart

Comparatives are used to show the differences between two things.

Superlatives are used to show how one thing is different from two or more things.

For short adjectives, we usually add -er to the word and use than to compare two things.

If the word ends in y, change y to i and add -er or -est.

For the superlative, add -est. Don’t forget the!

Base Word

Comparative Superlative

high

higher The percentage of tourists for Al Ain was higher than for Doha.

the highest Beirut had the highest percentage of tourists.

low

lower Level Three classes had a lower number of students than Level Two classes.

the lowest Level One classes had the lowest number of students.

For longer adjectives, we cannot use –er and –est. More and less are used to make the comparative and the most/the least are used for the superlative.

Base Word Comparative Superlative

popular

more/less popular than Pepsi was a more popular drink than Sprite.

the most/the least popular The least popular drink was Red Bull.

common

more/ less common than Cancer was less common than heart disease.

the most/ the least common The most common disease was diabetes.

PIE CHART: GRAMMAR FOCUS

Revisiting Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

PIE CHART: GRAMMAR FOCUS 1. Most students thought a graph report was the _______________ (easy) kind of

writing.

2. Playing computer games was _______________ (popular) than reading books.

3. Chatting online was ________________ (popular) activity amongst teenagers in Al Ain.

4. The production of oil was ______________ (high) in the UAE than in Kuwait.

5. The USA was the ___________ (high) producer of Carbon Dioxide. 6. Students from Al Ain were _______________ (great) in number than those from

RAK. 7. The ______________ (low) percentage of international students at Cambridge

university came from the Middle East. 8. Mobile phone calls were _______________ (expensive) than landline phones. 1. people/ working in jobs /studying at university

___________________________________________________________________ 2. women/ work part-time/ men ___________________________________________________________________ 3. English/ difficult / Arabic ___________________________________________________________________ 4. population / Al Ain / Dubai

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5. Burj Khalifa in Dubai / Twin Towers in Malaysia

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Fill in the blanks with the comparative OR the superlative form of the adjective

Write a sentence to compare the two things given.

Example: gold/silver Gold was more expensive than silver.

PIE CHART: STATING NUMBERS AND FRACTIONS

In the spaces below, write the percentages as fractions using just under, exactly or just over. 21% __________________________________________

69% __________________________________________

72% __________________________________________

50% __________________________________________

18% __________________________________________

63% __________________________________________

75% __________________________________________

54% __________________________________________

23% __________________________________________

31% __________________________________________

Vocabulary to describe common

fractions

10% a tenth (1/10)

20% a fifth (1/5)

25% a quarter (1/4)

33% a third (1/3)

50% a half (1/2)

66% two thirds (2/3)

75% three quarters (3/4)

Complete the sentences.

1. The _________________ percentage of _____________________ came

from Al Ain.

2. ________________ was the second most ______________________

home city.

3. RAK made up the second _______________________ percentage of the total.

4. _____________________ times _____ many students came from RAK as

Fujairah.

5. ______________ students came from Abu Dhabi than from other cities.

6. Students from RAK were considerably ____________ common

________________ students from Fujairah.

7. Students from Abu Dhabi were ________________ ____________ common

than students from Fujairah.

8. Students from Al Ain made up just under ______________[use a fraction] of the

total.

9. Students from RAK accounted for exactly __________________[use a fraction]

of the total.

PIE CHART VOCABULARY PRACTICE

Percentages of UAE University Students in 2011

Put the words in the box into the rights gaps in the introduction:

largest smallest which percentages while shows

The pie chart 1) ___________ the 2) ________________of UAEU students from five

cities in the United Arab Emirates, 3) __________were Al Ain, RAK, Fujairah Abu Dhabi

and other, in 2011. Overall, the 4) __________ percentage of students by far came from Al

Ain, 5) ___________ the 6) ___________ percentage of students was from Abu Dhabi.

Put the fractions and numbers in the box into the right gaps in the body paragraph:

just under one tenth 5% exactly one quarter 2% less than half nearly two thirds 3%

Looking at the pie chart, we can see that the most common home city of all UAEU

students was Al Ain at 1) ______________________________. The second most common

home city was RAK, at 2) ___________________________ of students. Together, Fujairah

and Abu Dhabi made up 3)___________________________, at 4)_______ and 5)_______

respectively. This was higher than the percentage of students from other cities, which was

the lowest at 6) ________________________ of the total.

PIE CHART: MODEL ANSWER

Percentages of UAE University Students in 2011

Complete the gaps with the information shown in the charts. You should use fractions where you can.

The pie chart shows the percentages of customers in five stores, which were

______________________________________________, in 2011. Overall, the greatest

percentage of customers was at _____________ , while the smallest percentage was at

___________.

The highest percentage of customers went to Zara, at _______________________.

The second highest percentage of customers ____________________________________

________________________________________. Together, Mango and Topshop had

_________________________________, at 17% and 8% respectively. This was higher

than the percentage of customers at H&M, which was the lowest, at __________________.

H&M6%

Topshop8%

Splash20%

Mango17%

Zara49%

Percentage of store customers in 2011

Complete the gaps with the information shown in the charts. You should use fractions where you can.

The pie chart shows ___________________________________________________

__________________________________________________ in 2012. Overall, the health

problem with the highest ____________________________________________, while the

__________________________________.

The highest percentage of people had ____________________________________

_____________________________________________. The second highest percentage

of _____________________________________________________________. Together,

diabetes and cancer made up ________________________________________________

_______________________________________. This was higher than the percentage of

people with ______________________________________________________________.

Lung disease

32%

Cancer17%

Heart disease

25%

Diabetes18%

Kidney disease

8%

Percentage of people with health problems in 2012

PIE CHART: WRITING PRACTICE

Writing Practice

Write two paragraphs to describe the above pie chart.

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Saudi Arabia52%

UAE16%

Iran15%

Qatar5%

Kuwait12%

Arabian Gulf Oil Exports - 2010

PIE CHART: WRITING PRACTICE

Writing Practice

Write two paragraphs to describe the above pie chart.

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Brazil41%

Thailand11%

US8%

China12%

India28%

Sugar producing countries 2012