Describing Areas Of Little Or No Change and the Highs And Lows.
In IELTS Lesson 1you learned how to describe trends and changes. In this lesson you will look at describing areas of little change and also the high and low points of a set of data.
B) Describing areas of little or no change. Insert a time phrase from Table 1 into one of the time positions.
Table 1 Time phrases.
From (time 1) to (time 2)
Between (time 1) and (time 2)
During (month or year)
In (month or year)
On (day)
On the (date)
At (time; hours/minutes)
Time
Quantity
Past Verb
Adjective
Time
The price
etc.
held
steady
remained
steady
stable
constant
Time
There was
Adjective
Noun
Time
In Quantity of
Time
There was
little
hardly any
only a small
no
change
shift
alteration
in the price of
in the number of
etc
C) Describing the highest and lowest points on the graph.
Time
The quantity
peaked
Time
reached
hit
a peak
a high (point)
maximum
bottomed out
reached
hit
a low (point)
rock bottom
the bottom
a minimum
hit a trough
Exercise 2
Describe the changes and trends in home mortgages between 1955 and 1998.
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