Vocabulary for Trend Graphs

What Vocabulary for Trend Graphs means

In this video I'll show you which vocabulary to use if you're describing a trend graph on your task one essay. So just to remind you this is what a trend graph looks like. You can have a trend graph as a line graph as a bar graph or as a table so if you'll remember we have a trend graph. Whenever we have changes that are being described over a certain period of time so this video will only focus on the vocabulary that you need for describing such trend graphs so when you have a trend graph These are the types of changes that you're going to see.

So in this image we have a line graph. However I want you to note that even if you have a table or a bar graph you will notice similar types of changes. So basically you're going to have any of these seven different types of changes so you may have a data set where the measurements are increasing the data might experience a big increase or maybe the data remains constant. It is also possible that the data might decrease or you may see a big decrease.

How to use it

You may also notice that sometimes the graph undergoes a decrease but then it improves again. Lastly the data that you see might go up and down. This is known as a fluctuation. So there are particular vocabulary words that you can use to describe each of these different types of changes so let's take a look at those vocabulary words.

So first we have increase if you have an info graphic where the data is increasing then you can use any of these words listed here such as rise climb elevate. Notice that here we have a verb and in the parentheses we have the noun. OK so here's the verb form of the word. And here's the noun form of the word.

So for example if you have an info graphic where the data is increasing you could say something like banana sales grew in 1990. You can also use the noun form of the word. So you can say Banana sales experienced a growth in 1990. So you can describe this data in both ways.

You can use a verb to describe it or are now to describe it next. You may have a big increase if you have a big increase then you can use any of these words here such as Trump surge double and so on. And here we have the noun. So you may say something like computer sales doubled in 1990 or you can say computer sales experienced a doubling in 1990.

Next you may have a decrease. So if the data is decreasing you can use any of these words here such as fall drop decline here's the verb and here's the noun so you may say something like computer sales dropped by 10 percent you can also use the noun form so you can say computer sales experienced a 10 percent drop next. It's possible that the data might experience a big decrease in such a case. You can use these words plummet or a plummet tumble or a tumble and so on.

So you can say something like banana sales plummeted in 1990 or you can say Banana sales experienced a plummet in 1990 next. It's possible that the data might remain stable over certain periods of time. So in these cases you can use these words such as stabilize or stabilization level off or leveling off and so on. So you could say Banana sales leveled off in 1990 or you can use this phrase as a noun so you can say Banana sales experienced a levelling off in 1990.

PDF reference notes

Vocabulary for Trend Graphs Lexical Resource: Writing Task 1 mastership.co Learn from the world’s best IELTS course. -- 1 of 10 -- Table Describe data over a period of time Coffee 1999 (millions of euros) 2004 (millions of euros) UK 1.5 20 Switzerland 3 6 Denmark 1.8 2 Belgium 1 1.7 Sweden 0.8 1 Trend Graphs Line Graph Bar Graph -- 2 of 10 -- Increase Big increase Constant Decrease Big decrease Improvement Fluctuation Time Types of Changes -- 3 of 10 -- Fluctuation fluctuate (fluctuation) Increase rise (a rise) climb (a climb) elevate (elevation) grow (growth) incline (an incline) Big increase jump (a jump) surge (a surge) double (doubling) shoot up soar Decrease fall (a fall) drop (a drop) decline (a decline) dip (a dip) sink (sinking) Big decrease plummet (a plummet) tumble (a tumble) collapse (a collapse) slump (a slump) plunge (a plunge) Stability stabilize (stabilization) level off (leveling off) plateau (a plateau) stay/remain + steady/stable/ constant Improvement improve (improvement) recover (recovery) Types of Changes Verb (Noun) -- 4 of 10 -- Time Quality of Changes Slow changeSteady change Fast/surprising change Small change Medium change Big change -- 5 of 10 -- Quality of Changes Describes... Adjectives Adverbs Fast change rapid, sharp, quick, steep, swift rapidly, sharply, quickly, steeply, swiftly Surprising change sudden, striking, abrupt suddenly, strikingly, abruptly Slow change slow, gradual slowly, gradually Steady change steady, consistent steadily, consistently Small change marginal, slight marginally, slightly Medium change significant, considerable, substantial, marked significantly, considerably, substantially, markedly Big change dramatic, drastic, remarkable dramatically, drastically, remarkably -- 6 of 10 -- Mix and Match Adjectives and Nouns A B (adjectives) C (nouns) D There was a marginal increase in the price of _____ We can observe a modest rise in the number of _____ significant growth in the population of _____ drastic decrease in the amount of _____ gradual decline steady fall -- 7 of 10 -- Mix and Match Adjectives and Nouns A B (adjectives) C (nouns) D There was a marginal increase in the price of _____ We can observe a modest rise in the number of _____ significant growth in the population of _____ drastic decrease in the amount of _____ gradual decline steady fall Example: There was a significant growth in the price of cars. -- 8 of 10 -- Mix and Match Adverbs and Verbs A B (adverbs) C (verbs) D The price marginally increased from _____ to _____ The number modestly rose between _____ and _____ The population significantly grew up to _____ The amount drastically decreased until _____ gradually declined to _____ steadily fell during _____ -- 9 of 10 -- Mix and Match Adverbs and Verbs A B (adverbs) C (verbs) D The price marginally increased from _____ to _____ The number modestly rose between _____ and _____ The population significantly grew up to _____ The amount drastically decreased until _____ gradually declined to _____ steadily fell during _____ Example: The population marginally declined from 120,000 to 118,200.

Practice focus

Now if the data is decreasing but then it starts to improve then you can use these words to describe this type of change. You may say something like mobile sales recovered in 1990 or mobile sales experienced a recovery in 1990. Finally if the data is moving up and down up and down then will we call this a fluctuation. So you can say Banana sales fluctuated in 1990 or banana sales experienced a fluctuation in 1990 so these are all the different ways in which you can describe the different types of changes you can describe the types of changes using the verbs or using the nouns.

Now let's look at the quality of change when we're talking about the quality of change. We're mainly talking about adverbs and adjectives. So let's take a look so sometimes there may be a slow change in your data whereas other times there may be a very fast or surprising change in the data. It's also possible that there may be a steady change in the data or steady change means that the data is increasing at a steady rate.

Or it's possible that the data might be decreasing at a steady rate. It is also possible that the data remains constant at a steady rate meaning that it does not go up or down. On the other hand you can have small changes medium changes or big changes. So let's explore the different adjectives and adverbs that we use to describe these different qualities of changes.

If you have a fast change then you can use adjectives like rapid sharp quick steep or swift. You can also use adverbs like rapidly sharply quickly steeply and swiftly. So if you're writing a sentence you could say something like there was a sharp rise in computer sales in 1990 or you can also use adverb to describe the change. You can say computer sales sharply increased in 1990 if you have a surprising change.