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USEFUL WORDS FOR PARAPHRASING A SUMMARY

Original sentence: The chart below shows…

Paraphrased sentence: the line graph/ the line chart

indicates/depicts/reveals/illustrates…

· Sales = income = revenue = turnover = how much money was made.

· The income rate = the income level = the level of income = the rate of income =
the level of revenue = the revenue rate = the revenue level

· New York City bookstore = bookstore in New York City

· Proportion = percentage = rate

· The proportion of = the percentage of = the figure for.

· From 2000 to 2005 = between 2000 and 2005 = Over a period of (5) years.

· The elderly = elderly people = senior citizens.

· Spending = expenditure.

· Information = data

· Levels of unemployment = Unemployment rate.

· Poverty rate = Level of poverty.

· Production = manufacture = be produced = be made = be manufactured

Note:

The examiner doesn’t care about what you say, they care about how well you use
English

The figure for X

What is X? Whatever you are talking about.

For example: the figure for novel sales, the figure for action films, the figure for
whatever it said on the diagram. This works all the time. If you find in the exam that
you have 10 minutes, you don’t have time to be killed with your vocabulary. “The figure
for” works.

Or you can use “X’s figure”. For example, romance film’s figure