If that’s not a snappy title for a blog post then I don’t know what is.
You have to teach the language of graphs and you can’t find that perfect graph with which to go about it. Many of us have been in this unenviable position.
Let’s face it, we aren’t always going to be able to use a graphic based on what Rick Astley is ‘never gonna do’, as much as we may want to.
When Astley- based pie charts simply don’t cut it, here’s a very easy to use online resource that will enable you to make a graph to your own specifications.
This fantastic resource comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Click hereto start making your own graphs and reflect on the fact that your IELTS exam prep class need never be the same again.
If you desperately want to make a stand against all these teaching unplugged shenanigans and just want some worksheets to hand out, here are 31 freely available online resources for describing graphs:
1. Describing graphs exercise (PDF format)
2. Write paragraphs to describe the graphs (PDF format)
3. Describing graphs guide & exercises (PDF format)
4. Presenting & explaining graphs vocabulary & sample sentences (PDF format)
5. IELTS graphs exercises & sample answers (PDF format)
6. Collection of graphs & charts exercises (PDF format)
7. Describing graphs vocabulary worksheet (PDF format)
8. Match the following graphs and statements (PDF format)
9. Describing graphs guide & exercises (word format)
10. Describing trends or movements on graphs
11. Describing graphs exercise: company performance (PDF format)
12. Describing trends practice exercise
13. Giving presentations: useful language worksheet & answers (PDF format)
14. Giving presentations and describing graphs worksheet with vocabulary &pictures (PDF format)
15. Giving presentations picture & vocabulary worksheet (PDF format)
16. Describing graphs exercises for IELTS (PDF format)
17. Sample describing graphs exercises for IELTS (PDF format)
18. Describing trends exercises (Word format)
19. Future careers of middle school students (PDF format) bar graph and exercise
20. Describing graphs pair work activity (PDF format)
21. Interpreting graphs vocab, exercises and sentence writing (PDF format)
22. Heart attacks and death rates of children graphs worksheet (PDF format)
23. Graph and activity: immigration (PDF format)
24. Elementary Chart Reading Practice
25. Reading a pie chart about mobile phones worksheet (PDF format)
26. Interpretation of graphs, tables and maps website
27. Graphing in the Information Age
28. Rhetorical Functions in Academic (ESL) Writing: Describing charts and diagrams
29. Statistics Canada’s examples and lesson plans for graphs
30. Economic Graphs
31. Visuals for presentations (PDF format)
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There really are a lot of resources here. I’m going to try the graph maker as on the video. I have made graphs using open office, great stuff but too cumbersome to do quickly for me. Thanks for the info.
Some great resources, describing a graph is a lot more involved than it first appears!
Jon.