2 Complete the comments in this paragraph w ith one word in each gap. If we look at Bernie's Buns, it started at £ 2 0 ,0 0 0 in 2 0 0 0 , which was the 1 ................... income of the three bakeries at this point. After that, it started to rise and went up sharply to around £ 6 0 ,0 0 0 in 2 0 0 8 , which meant that it earned 2
...................money than Lovely Loaves. Finally, the earnings of Bernie’s Buns rose gradually, 3 ................... at around £6
5 .0 0 0 in 2 0 1 0 . 3 Look at the graph on page 90 and complete these sentences w ith a comment. 1 Forty-eight per cent of people worked in the private sector in 20 00
, which m e a n t... 2 There was a slight rise in the percentage of people who worked in the public sector, to just over 50% in 2 0 1 0 . this figure being ... 3 The percentage of people employed in the public sector rose sharply between 2002
and 2 0 0 4 . soarin g... 4 The percentage of people who worked in the private sector went down steadily to 20
% in 2 0 1 0 . This m e a n t... 7 Graphs w ith a trend
Next steps 1: Writing about graphs with a future trend Sometimes in the exam you can be asked to write about a graph with a future trend. You should write your answer in the same way as before, but instead of using the past simple, change the grammar and use future tenses. 1 Look at this essay question and discuss how to w rite an answ er to it. The graph b e lo w shows predictions about the num ber o f people w ho w ill study
