Describing Charts and Graphs. ESL/ELL PowerPoint Lesson for B2 Level Students

This is an interactive PowerPoint lesson for B2 level students of English focusing on language to describe trends and data on line graphs, pie charts and bar charts. This lesson lasts for approximately one hour and can be done online, or in a classroom setting through IWB (interactive whiteboard).

All language of the lesson is easily broken down and elicited, so students of this level can clearly understand the language that is being presented to them.

This lesson contains 45 beautifully animated slides and contains a variety of engaging activities for students to practice all four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Perfect for students preparing for English examinations such as TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE exam.

This lesson contains …

• Controlled practice activities
• Communication activities
• Elicitation of language
• Writing practice activities
• Video link with grammar explanations
• Answer templates which can be applied to describe graphs
• Essay templates which can be applied to describe graphs

Target Language Focus (Describing graph trends)

• increase / an increase
• rise / a rise
• decrease / a decrease
• fall / a fall
• fluctuate / a fluctuation
• peak at / a peak

Target Language Focus 2 (Useful phrases to describe information on charts)

• This chart shows / highlights / illustrates
• You can see from the figures that …
• What is apparent, is that over time, …
• The data presented in the chart reveals
• The largest segment of the chart shows …
• The smallest segment of the chart shows…
• The distribution of the data suggests …

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