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Comparison Graphs
Comparison graphs compare different things:
- Oil production in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Russia
- The percentage of starch, sugar, fat and protein in the UAE diet
- Japanese, German, American, British, French and Korean cars sold in the UK
- The number of female and male managers in a company
- How much money you spend on shoes, clothes, books, travel or music
- The top five holiday destinations
- any things that can be compared!
The vocabulary you will use in comparison graphs is "bigger than, more than less than, the highest, equal to, almost the same as, less than, approximately the same as, twice as much as, half, quarter, three times," etc.
Time Graphs
Time graphs describe how one thing changes over time.
- Oil production in 2000 and in 1990
- Age of marriage from 1900 to 2000
- Rainfall from January to December
- Increases in your child's height
- Your company's profit over the last five years
The vocabulary for time is usually past tense (though not always), and describes change - rose, fell, increased, plummeted, rocketed, went up, soared, bottomed out, plunged, shot up dramatically, climbed gradually, rose gently, fluctuated.
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