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Bar Chart: Date Production

The chart shows the top ten date-producing countries and their annual production in tonnes, 2001.

Questions:

  1. What does the bar graph show?
  2. Overall, what were the top three or four producers?
  3. Which country produced the most dates?
  4. How much more did Egypt produce than Iran? (in tonnes)
  5. What country was the second-highest producer in 2001?
  6. How many tonnes of dates did Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE produce?
  7. How does Algeria's production compare to the UAE's output?
  8. Libya and Sudan each accounted for less than _____________ tonnes.
  9. Oman's production is ___________________ Egypt's figure. (Insert a fraction)
  10. In summary, how many countries produce over half a million tonnes a year, and which country is the leading producer?

Photo: Date Palm. Link to Date Exporting company in Egypt

Use full answers to the sentences above to form the basis of your three-paragraph essay. Then write a short description of the information in the chart.

Exercise

Before you write, try this exercise.

Find ONE error in each sentence below, then put the corrected sentences in order to make a model essay.

  1. Finaly, Sudan’s and Libya's crops yielded under 0.2 million each.
     
  2. In summary, date production is the most abundant in Egypt and Iraq.
     
  3.  Pakistan and Iraq, with outputs of approximately 630,000, were not far ahead.
     
  4. First, Egypt took the lion's share of production with over a million tonnes but Iran is a close second with almost .9 million.
     
  5. The bar graph shows date production in tonnes for the world's top producer in 2001.
     
  6. The rest nations, however, were far less productive.
     
  7. Algeria supplied the world with nearly 400,000 tonnes and Oman around a half million.
     
  8. Following them came the UAE and Saudi Arabia, rival each other with about 740,000 tonnes each.
     
  9. Overall, Egypt and Iran account to the majority of goods whilst Sudan and Libya are in the minority.
     
  10. In contrast, harvests in Oman and countries in northern Africa are far more plentiful.
     
  11. Ten countrys in the Gulf region and northern Africa are featured.

 

Resources

All about dates, from Wikipedia

Dates in the UAE: from UAEinteract

A book in the ADMC library

 

Credits and Sources

Source: http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/world-top-ten-date-producing-countries-map.html

Teachers: Download a file with the graph and activities in Word by TJ Everest. (Includes a key)

 

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