雅思A类小作文图表干货贴——看BBC的报道学老外怎么分析图表

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雅思A类小作文图表干货贴——看BBC的报道学老外怎么分析图表

很多同学以为自己考不到7分完全是因为大作文写不好,但是其实有相当一部分的同学忽略了小作文的重要性。小作文如果只有一个时间点的和有多个时间点的图表都用一种方法写,那分数肯定好看不到哪里去。用词的准确性,数据的筛选,都是很有讲究的。用的不准确,不地道,那永远在考官眼里不可能是高水准的文章。本篇英领Lucy老师将着重为大家分析A类雅思小作文图表题和部分大作文逻辑表达。这是一篇图表题的写作,源于BBC官网报道的一篇人口增长的文章。同学们可以当作范文学习一下里面比较地道的用词和表达。实用的地方会为大家标记出来。还有一些观点性的表达,是可以用同样的逻辑用在大作文里面的。

The UK population is set to become the largest in the European Union, according to a report.

(此处is set to become可以用is projected/expected to become来替换)

It is expected to increase from its current figure of 61 million to almost 77 million in 2060 – a rise of 25%.

这是在有多个时间点的图表里面经常可以遇到的一个句型。

This would make it the largest population in the EU, ahead of the projections for France (72 million) and Germany (71 million).

The EU’s statistical office Eurostat also predicts the EU population will be 506m in 2060, up from 495m in 2008.

It is expected to peak at 521m in 2035 but then decline.

上面写到的:

Ahead of the projections forahead应该是许多同学们想不到的。

Be expected to peakpeak这个表达,也是非常地道的表达top的说法。注意后面介词是at.

The report predicts the average age of the EU population will rise, due to “persistently low fertility and an increasing number of survivors to higher ages”.

The proportion of the population aged 65 or above in the UK is projected to reach 24.7% in 2060, from 16.1% in 2008.

这样子类型的表达大家一定不能更熟悉了吧?百分之一百在所有包含多个时间点的图表题里面都可以用。不要一遍一遍的去反复赘述这个数据是什么。简洁表达,注意所有动态图表题都是注重趋势变化的表达的。

 

The number of Britons aged 80 or above is expected to reach 9% in 2060, compared with the current figure of 4.5%.

同样是非常好的数据之间比较,从而说明趋势的例子。

If the projection is correct, 42.1% of the UK’s population would be above retirement age – that proportion is currently 24.3%.

Ahead of the UK, the largest population growth within the EU is expected in Cyprus (+66%), the Irish Republic (+53%), Luxembourg (+52%).

A Home Office spokesman said: “Projections such as these are proof that we are right to be carrying out the biggest shake-up to the immigration system for a generation.

“Centre-stage is our new Australian-style points-based system, which means only those we need can come here to work or study.”

这是我一直在课上讲的什么叫做解释性拓展。不要每个大作文都只知道举例子。很多别的拓展方法可以用。

Strategy call

Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve said the figures showed it was “essential we develop a coherent strategy to deal with population growth”.

He added: “This strategy must bring together policy on issues from the family to border control, housing to skills and planning to immigration control.

针对某个问题的policy后面介词注意是on.

“We not only need to ensure that our population grows at a more sustainable rate but that we also prepare properly for that sustainable rate of growth.

“The government have shown that they have no answers to the challenges we face by failing to plan for our increasing population – this makes them part of the problem, not the solution.”

最后这里澳洲的同学们应该最近很眼熟吧?一些敏感话题里的口号就是把这个修改了。口语里面也可以用,把主语换一换就可以讲不同的话题了。

Alasdair Murray, director of think tank CentreForum, said the projection should not be considered a certainty.

He said: “Population statistics are predicted by using recent figures so this report will have used the statistics of immigration in the UK in the last few years. The level is high so the prediction will be high.

“There are signs that immigration in this country is starting to tail off. If you were to do this again in 2010 or 2011 I think it would be different.

“A more realistic assessment would be to consider the two factors of birth rates and immigration rates together when predicting population.”

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