Graphs, Charts, Visual Representation of Data

Graphs Which kinds of graphs can you think of? Pie chart Line graph Bar graph Diagram Flow chart

Expenditures for an average American

What are your expenditures?

Useful language to describe pie charts demonstrate illustrate depict represent constitute comprise equal add up to amount to invest on second largest/smallest source significant mere over just under …. Slice, segment, portion

Federal Budget Pie Charts These pie charts illustrate the composition of our federal budget. The four largest sources of spending -- Health, Social Security, Defense, and Income Security -- constitute over 75% of annual expenditures. While the government brings in most of its revenue from income taxes and social insurance taxes, the second pie chart demonstrates that the deficit is similar in size to these revenue sources. As a result, our government spends a significant part of the budget on annual interest, a percentage that will continue to grow as deficits accumulate and debt increases.

What could you do to save money as a student ?

Read your paper and give each other some tips 1 2

Read your paper and give each other some tips: 3 4

Describing trends

Describing trends Change can be… abrupt, sudden, substantial, disappointing, rapid encouraging, slight, marked, alarming, moderate, enormous, fantastic, sharp, massive, tremendous, gradual, sudden, dramatic, considerable, steady disastrous, marginal, significant, modest, huge Scale +/- Significance +/- Speed +/- (big or small) (good or bad change) (fast or slow)

Line Graphs and verbs

Do you know the right adverb? A dramatic fall to fall ………………… An abrupt rise to rise ……………….. A sudden decline to decline ……………… A moderate grow to grow ……………… A slight increase to increase …………….. A rapid drop to drop ………………… A gradual decline to decline …………… A steady recover to recover …………… Erratic sales to sell ………………….. A constant levelling off to level off ………………

Do you know the right adverb? A dramatic fall to fall ………………… An abrupt rise to rise ……………….. A sudden decline to decline ……………… A moderate growth to grow ……………… A slight increase to increase …………….. A rapid drop to drop ………………… A gradual decline to decline …………… A steady recovery to recover …………… Erratic sales to sell ………………….. A constant levelling off to level off ……………… dramatically abruptly suddenly moderately slightly rapidly gradually steadily erratically constantly

BRICS GDP TRADE DEFICIT POLITICAL SYSTEM CURRENT POLITICAL ORIENTATION REASONS FOR GROWTH AREAS NEEDING IMPROVEMENT

Presenting Data Let’s have a look at: “Daten effektiv präsentieren”, p. 5-6

Now work in partners and do the following exercise:

Let’s see if you can describe a graph …and someone else can draw it?

Now let’s try presenting data:

How about this?

What do you think this picture is about?

PITCH ENDOWMENT COVETED SCALE APPLICANTS CUTTHROAT ROOM AND BOARD SELECTIVE

Make a flow chart for the process described in: