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Welcome to our class!
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South Asia 32 %
East Asia
26%
Europe
15%
Africa
11%
Northern
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Unit 11: Sources of energy
Lesson 4: Writing
Describing a chart
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Discovering the chart
It shows the energy consumption in
Highland in 2000 & 2005
What does the chart show?
What does the green color present?
It presents the consumption of coal
What does the red describe?
It describes the consumption of
Nuclear & Hydroelectricity
What about the purple?
It presents the consumption
of petroleum
How much was the total energy
consumption in 2000 and 2005?
It was 117 million tons and
170 million tons respectively
Which consumption made up the
largest amount of this figure in 2000
and in 2005?
Petroleum in 2000 and
nuclear & hydroelectricity in 2005
Which consumption ranked second?
Coal in 2000 but in 2005
it was petroleum
How did Nuclear &
Hydroelectricity make up?
Smallest in 2000 but
largest in 2005
ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN HIGHLAND
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VOCABULARY

consume (v)
the consumption of : sù tiªu thô
- make up : tiªu thô
- this is / was followed by: ®øng sau/ theo sau
- rank first / second…. xep thu
- contribute … ®ãng gãp / tiªu thô
there was a(n)rise/ increase/ decrease in… t¨ng vät
increase by …. Tang them
sharply = rapidly nhanh, ®ét ngét
compare with so víi

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Task 1: Fill in the gaps with the information from the chart.

The chart shows the energy consumption in Highland in 2000. As can be seen, the total energy consumption was (1) …………….. million tons. Petroleum made up the largest amount of this figure (57 million tons). This was followed by the consumption of (2) …………………. (40 million tons). Nuclear & Hydroelectricity made up the (3) ………………….. amount of energy consumption (20 million tons).
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coal
smallest
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Task 2:

Continue your description of the trends in energy consumption in the year 2005 in Highland.

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Task 2: Continue your description of the trends in energy consumption in the year 2005 in Highland.

The chart presents the energy consumption in Highland in 2005. As can be seen, the total energy consumption was 170 million tons. Nuclear hydroelectricity made up the largest amount of this figure (75 million tons). This was followed by the consumption of petroleum (50 million tons). Coal contributed a slightly smaller proportion with 45 million tons.
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Task 3: Describe the chart, using the information from task 1 and 2.
Form of a chart description

Opening: Topic sentence
( name, time , place )
Body: Supporting ideas (compare the information in task 1 & 2 ,the differences of energy consumption between the two years )
Closing: concluding sentence
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Useful language
Opening: Topic sentence
-The chart shows/ describes/ presents ..….(name, time, place)
Body: Supporting ideas (compare the information in task 1 & 2 ,the differences of energy consumption between the two years )
- It is clear from the chart that…………..
- It can be seen from the chart that…………..
- As can be seen,…………………….
- This was followed by the consumption of….
- …… made up the largest/ smallest amount of….…
- The consumption of …… was lower/ higher than it was in……….
- The …… consumption increased/ decreased in…
Closing: concluding sentence
- To sum up/ in conclusion,…..

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Suggested writing:
The chart shows the energy consumption in Highland in 2000 and 2005.
As can be seen, there was an upward trend in the consumption of coal and nuclear & hydroelectricity. There was a sharp decrease in the use of petroleum in 2005 . The amount of coal used increased by 10 million tons compared with 2000 and the consumption of nuclear & hydroelectricity went up dramatically by 18 million tons. However, the amount of petroleum consumed in 2005 fell by 10 million tons .
In conclusion, there was a difference in the amount as well as the trend of consuming different sources of energy between the two years.
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HOMEWORK
Do exercises in the workbook and
prepare the new lesson
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