Mindse 3 _ U1_ Writing part 1 _a trend

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) verbs

,

(b) adverbs

,

(c) time phrase

• since...

• drop

• from ... to ...

• by the year ...

• sharply

• consistently

• slowly

• steadily

• dramatically

• fall

• rise

• between... and...

• gradually

• climb

• decrease

• for the next ... years

• increase

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) increasing - sự tăng

,

(b) decreasing - sự giảm

,

(c) sự không đổi

• linger

• rise

• decline

• stay unchanged

• go up

• increase

• slump /slʌmp/

• fall

• grow

• drop

• decrease

• climb

• go down

• surge /sɜːdʒ/

• fluctuate /ˈflʌk.tʃu.eɪt/

• stay stable

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) small degree of change

,

(b) large degree of change

• marginally

• dramatically

• slowly

• abruptly

• gradually

• sharply

• significantly

• considerably

• steadily

Since five years ago, the police (a)   <report> a small drop in violent crime.

The number of people moving away from a particular capital city (a)   <rise> significantly.

Answer explanation

Chú ý the number of + động từ chia số ít => has risen

The number of babies born in Korea in 2023 was 40 % below compared to 2000. The birth rate dropped​ (a)  

• significantly
• marginally

Answer explanation

Tỷ lệ sinh giảm mạnh ở Hàn Quốc => significantly

The prices of essential products (a)   < witness> a sharp increase in 2023.

By the year 2030, there (a)   <be> a 20% reduction in the number of vehicles in this city centre.

Reorder the following

• Overall, the levels of migration for all three countries are higher across the period, but at different rates of change.
  The sharpest rises can be seen for countries A and C.

• By contrast, Country B’s numbers rise less steeply. Having started with the second highest numbers in 2000, it had reached only 30 million by 2020.

• A started the period with the highest number and its figures rise fairly steadily and steeply. Country C saw little change until 2005 but then the numbers saw a massive increase, reaching the same total of 80 million as A by the year 2020 and thereafter surpassing it.

• The line graph shows the number of citizens in three countries who have migrated from the countryside to urban areas since 2000 and the projected numbers up to 2025.