| Useful language for summarizing and describing data in visual form
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| Representing a visual
| As you can see from this graph representing...
If you could just take a look at...
Looking at X we can see that...
I'd like to illustrate this by showing you...
Let’s now look at the next slide which shows…
First, let me quickly explain the graph.
You can see that different colors have been used to indicate…
The key in the upper right-hand corner shows you …
This graph (diagram, table, pie chart, line chart, chart) shows/ outlines/ lists/ represents/ depicts/ breaks down …the results (rates, changes, turnover)…
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| Verbs for describing how data have changed:
| to increase/ to go up/ to rise/ to climb/ to double/ to expand/ to reach a high/ to recover
| to remain (unchanged, stable)/ to be steady/ to plateau/ to stabilize/ to stay the same
| to decrease/ to go down/ to decline/ to drop/ to fluctuate/ to hit a low/ to fall
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| Adjectives and adverbs to describe how fast the change occurred:
| Sharp/ dramatic/ significant/ drastic
| Steady/ gradual/ slight
| Sharply/dramatically/significantly
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| Prepositions:
| Between 1998 and 2001
From 1998 to 2001
Sales rose from 200 to 290
Sales fell to 350 in March
Sales fell by 30%
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| Numbers
| The number went up by 600, from 1200 to 800.
The number went up by half, from 1200 to 1800.
The figure went up by 50%, from 1200 to 1800.
The figure went up 150%, to 1800.
The number doubledbetween 2001 and 2010.
The number trebled between 2004 and 2008.
The figure quadrupled from 2003 to 2011.
There was a twofold increase between 2007 and 2012.
The figure went up sixfold between 2000 and 2006.
The figure in 2001 was three times the 1999 figure.
The figure in 1998 was four times the 1996 figure.
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1) Look at the pictures and find out which figure is:
1. on the left? 
2. on the right?
3. in the center?
4. across the bottom?
5. across the top?
6. in the bottom left-hand corner?
7. down the right side of the slide?
8. in the upper right-hand corner?
