PTE-A Speaking: Describe Image, a difficult Bar chart and a Mixed chart
(please expand images approximately 200% – apologies)
A more complicated Bar Chart:
- This bar chart shows British Emigration to selected destinations from 2004 to 2007, which includes Australia, Spain, New Zealand, the USA, and France
- The most popular emigration destination was Australia.
- The least popular emigration destination was the USA.
- The average emigration destination was New Zealand.
- In conclusion, it can be predicted that Australia will continue to be the most popular destination for the British in the future.
- Notice the change in superlative to ‘the most’ and ‘the least’; for some data this change is preferable.
- Never speak about the y-axis; do not say/estimate/ or guess numbers as it is not necessary – just speak through 5 sentences.
The combination Bar Chart/ mixed chart where 2 graphs are on top of each other:
This is the only chart I know where two graphs are piled on top of each other. Further, this is a popular chart on the exam as many students tell me they ‘had this one on the test’.
- This chart represents a line graph of temperature measured in degrees Celsius and a bar chart of precipitation measured in millimeters from January to December at Beckside Farm, Cumbria.
- The highest temperature was recorded in August.
- The lowest temperature was recorded in January.
- Precipitation fluctuated throughout the year with a high in November and a low in April.
- In conclusion, there is no relation between precipitation and temperature.
- This is an extremely long introduction, the longest, but it is logical.
- Do practice this type of graph ‘in reverse’, with the precipitation level or in a ‘U’ pattern for the year (temperature always rise and fall with the seasons, so they look the same)