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Personalised Graph

Aim:

to practise writing about graphs

Target Audience:

students

Relevance to BEC:

Part 1

Organisation:

in pairs

Materials needed:

none

It is possible at this level to ask students to present graphs that represent their own interests and hobbies. One good example was a student who graphed his bee-keeping hobby showing output of honey each year giving reasons and insight into something of great personal interest to him and consequently the class.

Students will find it relatively easy to verbalise graphs as in the above examples, but will need help with the concise style of writing required. Many students will have learnt summarising skills in their own language and should be encouraged to think back to those techniques.

Another option is to use real graphs based on people's jobs or some aspect of their university or school. For example, a graph showing the proportion of male to female workers in the company or male to female students on a course over a number of years.