Week 5- General VS Detailed Overview + Compare & Contrast

Week 5- General VS Detailed Overview + Compare & Contrast

Learning objectives

By the end of the lesson, you should be able to:

1. write a general and detailed overview of a graph

2. use compare and contrast words to describe the trend of the graph

General structure of introduction and concluding paragraph

• Introduction: description of the graph (sentence 1) in PRESENT TENSE + general overview (sentence 2)

• Conclusion: detailed overview (1 sentence)

Example:

General overview: There seems to be an increase in the number of students’ enrolment in both private and public colleges.

Detailed overview: Although both categories experienced a steady increase over the years, it is quite clear that the increase in the number of students enrolled in the public college was more significant than those of the private college.

Examples:

General overview: Overall, it can be seen that car is the most preferred mode of transportation among young people in all four different countries.

Detailed overview: To conclude, car is the most popular transport among youth, especially in France.

Open Ended

Write a general overview and a detailed overview of this graph.

Open Ended

Write a general overview and a detailed overview of this graph

Compare and contrast

• Teachers reported a dramatic fall in the occurrence of academic dishonesty. However, in 2006 the percentage increased as much as 1.6% resulting to 29.1% cheating offences committed by female students.

  
  

• The rate of cheating in male students in 2005 was at its lowest (20.5%). Likewise, the rate in female students was also at its lowest which was at 26.5%.

Open Ended

Write a sentence or two, comparing public and private college enrollment. Remember the formula!

Open Ended

Write a sentence or two, contrasting the transport preference.