Vocabulary for percentage proportions:
We should not keep repeating the same structures. The key language of percentage graphs is proportions and percentages. This table presents some examples of how you can change percentage to fraction or ratios:
A student can use these expressions to show the percentage in the description of the graph instead repeating the same member all the time
How to incorporate data in the graph
There are two ways of incorporating data
1) By using brackets( ......)
2) By using - which + is
makes up
constitutes
accounts for
Example sentences
white is considerably more common than blue.
white is (50%) is considerably more common than blue(20%)
white, which is 55% is considerably more common than blue, which makes up 20%.
red, which constitutes 28% is almost twice as popular as blue which is 13.8%
the other colours, which constitutes 8% are considerably less popularly than blue(20%)
Language of comparison:
Comparative form- when comparing 2 things
Than
In comparison with
As compared to
As compared to / with / than- used when comparing things or people, especially when comparing numbers or amounts:
This year profits are much higher as compared to ( than)( in comparison with ) last years
Mortality rates are lower for women as compared with ( than) men
as against/ as opposed to conjunction used when you are comparing two figures or pieces of information, in order to show how they are different:
The company achieved sales of $ 404 million , as against $310 million in the previous year.
One study predicted that 42% of female university graduates would remain single the rest of their lives, as opposed to just 5% of male graduates.
For the maps
The knowledge of directions- north,east, south , west, northeast, southeast, northeast, and southwest is very essential.
We should not keep repeating the same structures. The key language of percentage graphs is proportions and percentages. This table presents some examples of how you can change percentage to fraction or ratios:
How to incorporate data in the graph
There are two ways of incorporating data
1) By using brackets( ......)
2) By using - which + is
makes up
constitutes
accounts for
Example sentences
white is considerably more common than blue.
white is (50%) is considerably more common than blue(20%)
white, which is 55% is considerably more common than blue, which makes up 20%.
red, which constitutes 28% is almost twice as popular as blue which is 13.8%
the other colours, which constitutes 8% are considerably less popularly than blue(20%)
Language of comparison:
Comparative form- when comparing 2 things
Than
In comparison with
As compared to
As compared to / with / than- used when comparing things or people, especially when comparing numbers or amounts:
This year profits are much higher as compared to ( than)( in comparison with ) last years
Mortality rates are lower for women as compared with ( than) men
as against/ as opposed to conjunction used when you are comparing two figures or pieces of information, in order to show how they are different:
The company achieved sales of $ 404 million , as against $310 million in the previous year.
One study predicted that 42% of female university graduates would remain single the rest of their lives, as opposed to just 5% of male graduates.
For the maps
The knowledge of directions- north,east, south , west, northeast, southeast, northeast, and southwest is very essential.
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