UNIT 4- THE MASS MEDIA
LESSON: SKILLS: WRITING
Presented by:
Nguyễn Thị Hồng Thúy

Look at the pictures and discuss the
difference between them

A graph

A pie chart

TASK 1. Discuss the difference between a graph
and a chart; and how to describe a pie chart.
• Charts and graphs represent a series of data but they
are different from each other. Graphs are mainly
used to represent variation in values over a period of
time. Charts are used to give information about the
frequency of different quantities in a single pictorial
representation.
• To describe a pie chart we should specify the
information (content) and proportion of each
segment, which can be measured in percentages (%)
or fractions (e.g. one-third, a quarter).

Task 2. The pie chart below illustrates the forms
of communication used by students in Intel Secondary School.
Complete the description with the words in the box.

GAP-FILLING

1. preferences
2. recorded
3. majority

4. tied in
5. dominant
6. the least

Task 3. Study the pie chart and write a
paragraph of 130-160 words to describe it.

TASK 3. Study the pie chart and write a
paragraph to describe it.
The pie chart shows students' preferred online resources
recorded in a survey carried out at Intel Secondary School
Library in 2014. Following is a brief description of the students'
preferences.
We can see that a majority of students played interactive
games, which rank the first at 30%. Fiction e-books lie in the
second at 20%, and are at 10% less than interactive games.
Online magazines rank the third at 18% while non-fiction ebooks account for 15%. Online dictionaries are the fifth library
resource at 11%. Only a minority of students, or 6%, used
science journals, which is the least popular of all resources, and
used fivefold less than the most preferred resource, interactive
games.
To conclude, the dominant form of online resources used
by the students at Intel Secondary School Library is interactive
games. Of all the other resources – fiction e-books, online
magazines, non-fiction e-books, online dictionaries and science
journals – students used science journals the least.

HOMEWORK
1. Learn by heart all the expressions in the lesson : “Do
you know?” on page 53- TB- English12
2. Write a short paragraph of the rate of students using
smart phones in your class (for gifted students).
3. Prepare for the next lesson
UNIT 5 GETTING STARTED

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