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· Honda was more popular among males than females.

· Honda was less popular among females than males.

· The most popular means of transport was Honda.

· Honda was more popular than any other means of transport.

· Honda was the most popular means of transport.

· Honda was chosen by more males than females.

· A higher percentage of males chose Honda than males.

· Compared to/with the number of females, the number of males were
considerably higher.

· The number of males were considerably higher compared to/with the number of
females.

2. TREND LANGUAGE:

If we have 2 time points (that could be days/weeks/months/years/decades), we need to
use trend language. We need to talk about “increase”, “decrease”.

We could talk about 1990 and 2000, or we could talk about January and June, or we
could talk about Monday and Friday. It doesn’t matter.

Note: if they give you a diagram with just one year, all we can do is just to compare,
we cannot use trend language “increase”, “decrease”, “fluctuated”. In other words,
we cannot talk about movement.

On the other hand, if they give you two years, three years, or four years, they still want
comparison, but now they also want trend language. They also want you to talk about
movement. These are really two basic groups of language that you need to use to
describe diagrams: comparison and trend language.

Let’s build some vocabulary. Here is a list of verbs, adverbs, adjectives and nouns
that you need to use in task 1 writing.