Exam skills 3: Improving your writing style
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A good way to increase
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further when
writing
Task i answers
is to
list/rank and compare in
the same sentence.
1 Read these sentences and draw tw o simple bar charts to represent the
information. Compare w ith a partner.
1 Playing a team sport was next on the list at 54% , making it slightly more popular
than listening to music at 53% .
2
Team sports were the second most popular activity at 54% , just ahead of listening to
music at 53% .
3 Shopping cam e next at 10% , although this was much less popular than socializing,
at
20
%.
4 Socializing was next at 20% , which was twice as popular as shopping, with 10%.
5
Fifty-four per cent of people said they played a team sport in December, slightly
more
than the number who listened to music, with 53% .
6
Second on the list were team sports at 54% , while listening to music was slightly less
popular at 53% .
2 Study the sentences in Exercise 1 and choose the three pieces of language in
blue you like the most. Tell a partner the reasons for your choices.
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3 Look at this bar chart. Which of the destinations would you most like to visit?
W hy?
This chart shows th e top eig ht ho neym o on destinations fo r new lyw ed
British couples in 2010. T h e results com e from a survey o f 5,000 couples.
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