54 TOPIC: EDUCATION Aspect: Schoolwork Give a 5-minute talk on schoolwork. Average amount of time spent on schoolwork on Sundays ten years ago this year age group 14–15 age group 16–17 age group 18–19 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% In your talk you should: analyse the results of the survey … … Ways to deal with the prompt Reflect on what the function word ‘analyse’ requires you to do here and start out with a brief description of the chart. 1 What kind of chart is it? A bar chart/pie chart/flow chart (line graph)? 2 What is it about? Which age groups/dates are referred to? 3 How do the bars in the chart differ from each other? Use quantifiers (more than half, around one third, etc.) when describing the chart. Give an analysis by explaining the possible reasons for the students’ answers. 1 Why does the time they spend on schoolwork increase as the students get older? 2 Why could the general workload have increased over the years? Ways to start your talk Read the different ways to start your talk. One of them is less elegant. Decide which one. 1 I would like to discuss students’ increasing workload over the years. Let me start by explaining what this bar chart is about. 2 My topic is education. I would like to start my talk with the analysis of a chart … 3 The topic I am going to discuss is education. In particular, I want to point out the impact of the workload students have to deal with … 4 I’m going to talk about the percentage of time students spend doing schoolwork on Sundays. If you look at the chart, you can clearly see … 5 I’m talking about a bar chart. There are three columns in the bar chart … Speaking Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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