Task 1 · bar chart · 18 samples

Task 1: The chart below shows the donation given to six different types of charity by one company from 2012 to 2014.

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Identify the category that dominates throughout: social welfare leads in all three years, reaching its highest figure in 2014.
Separate steady increases from fluctuating or recovering patterns: health and wildlife rise each year, whereas social welfare falls before rebounding.
Notice categories that finish at or near their starting values: education returns to 8, while environment ends at 7 compared with 8 initially.

Suggested structure

Introduce the chart by naming the measure, the six charity types and the 2012–2014 period.
Give an overview identifying the largest category and the broad direction of change.
Describe social welfare separately because its figures are much higher and fluctuate notably.
Group the remaining categories by pattern, comparing their starting, middle and final figures.
End with a concise comparison of which categories finished higher, level or lower than in 2012.

Useful vocabulary & examples

a steady upward path: A consistent increase across successive years.
Health followed a steady upward path, rising from 6 to 9.
fell before recovering: Decreased at first and then rose again.
Environment fell to 5 before recovering to 7.
returned to its starting figure: Ended at the same value as at the beginning.
Education returned to its starting figure of 8 in 2014.
edged up: Increased by a small amount.
Arts edged up from 3 to 4 in the final year.

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The chart given the donation to six different types of contribute by one company from 2012 to 2014. Overall, the donation given to Social welfare hold position highest , while Arts always lowest. The first year the general trend was steady increase. The general trend of the next years after is the same: increase and decrease. Social welfare had the largest amount in all three years, at about 22 in 2012, 16 in 2013 an…

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The presented bar graph outlines the financial participation made by single organization to 6 distinct groups in year 2012, 2013 and 2014. As it is observed the company spends the highest on societal work and average on literacy, healthcare, surroundings and fauna and the least on artistic things. The data depicts that in year 2012 the donation for social welfare was 22, while education and environment both received …

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Given is 4 piecharts depicting the data of the two different workers in town A and B from the period of two years between 1960 and 2010, mesured by percentages As we can be seen that the percentage of salers in both town A and B held the most sigificant in 1960. However in 2010, the chart itself gives no information about either town, workers or 2010; instead, it compares one company's donations to six charity types …

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