Cambridge, UK

CTGU, China

Directions:

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Blog. You should write at least 120 words based on the chart and outline given below:

Writing task: chart writing

Outline

下图是 2007 年 1-10 月中国博客服务人均月度有效浏览时间及增长率

1 ） 描述变化 (para.1)

2 ） 说明原因 (para.2)

3) 结论 (para.3)

1.From January to February , decreased slightly

2.From March to August, a steady increase

3. From September to October, drop and increase again

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②③

Para. 1

1.What is the chart about? Name of the chart

2. What is the overall trend in the chart ? 3. the peak or a low point 4. What drills can be used to describe the

change

1.What is the chart about?

1) The name of chart 圆形图（ Pie chart ）也称为饼状图或圆面分

割图 曲线图（ Line graph/chart ）也称为线性图或

坐标图 条形图（ Bar graph ）也称为立柱图或圆柱

图 表格： table

2. The drills can be used in the first sentence

The following table / diagram/ graph/ chart/ figures/statistics shows sth

The diagram shows/ describes/ illustrates/ indicates that

As can be seen from the figures, It can be seen from the graph that

3. What is the overall trend in the chart

increase decrease peak or low point remains stable / steady from --- to –

4. The trend of increase verbs to show “ increase” increase, rise, go up , mount

4. The trend of increase drills to show “ increase” 1) The line quickly increases to ( figure) 2) The number increases from … to … 3) The number of sth rose / grew / climbed from 20

0 in 1999 to 500 in 2010 4)The number of sth grew up to sth 5) The number has increased by ( percentage) 6) sth is on the increase 7) There has been an increase by (percentage) in

sth 8) There was a gradual increase in sth 9) The number of sth rose even more sharply from

1998 to 2003.

5. The trend of decrease verbs to show “ decrease” decrease, fall , drop, decline, reduce

5. Decrease the drills to show “decrease” 1) There has been a great decline in birth rates 3) The number of staff has declined from 12,00

0 to 10,000 4) The number of sth has decreased to 700 pe

rsons 5) The number of sth decreased by 17percent 6) There was a dramatic fall / slight decrease i

n sth

6. Stable

1) There is little /no change in the number of sth from May to December

2)The number of sth remained steady from – to –

3) The number of sth stayed the same from --- to –

7. Peak or low point

1) The number of sth peaked at( percentage)

in ( year, month)

2). The number of sth bottomed out at ---

1.From January to February , decreased slightly

2.From March to August, a steady increase

3. From September to October, drop and increase again

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②③

Para. two : The reasons for the change

The reasons must be based on the change of the figure

decrease in February :

increase in July and August

The number dropped sharply in September

festival; less time on line

summer holidays; more time in reading or writing blogs

Beginning of new term

Conclusion the future tendency of the picture 1. In my opinion, … 2. Personally, I … 3. In short (= In brief), … 4. In conclusion, … 5. To conclude , it seems clear that

Model Para 1. introduction of the picture This bar graph shows/depicts/describers the ave

rage time people used blog services per month from January to October in 2007. From it we can see that the average time decreased slightly from 70 minutes in January to 68 minutes in February. There has been a steady increase from March to August, with two peak months, July and August. The figure dropped slightly in September, while in October it leveled up again.

Para. 2 reasons for the change Para. 2 reasons for the change Possible reasons for these changes are diverse.

To begin with, in February Chinese people celebrated the most important festival——Chinese New Year. This means people spent more time with their families and friends, and therefore they didn’t have much time for surfing online. Besides, students are the main users of blog services. While in July and August ， they had summer holidays, which enabled them to have more spare time reading and writing blogs. However, they have to go to school in September.

Para 3. conclusion In conclusion, blog is becoming an important

way for people to express themselves and communicate with others. It seems clear that the figure is most likely to increase in the future.