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09. Find and correct the errors in this description of the pie chart in exercise 6.
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The pie chart show frequency with which adults in the us uses social medias to obtain news. Overall, it is clear that less than half are using it in regular basis.
One of the most significant points in the data is that just under two fifths of people report that the news was never accessed by them via social media. To be precise, 38% of respondents gave this response, which is highest from all category. The second highest category is those who sometimes finds out the news from social media sites. Around a quarter (26%) of those surveyed were selected this response, which is 12% less than the 'never' group. Finally, there was a tie for the less common response, equal numbers of respondents 'hardly ever' and 'often' use social media to find out what is going on in the world.
To conclude, social media is use to get news often or sometimes by just 44%. It is evident by the data that majority of citizen does not read news in these sites.
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Suggested Answer - Corrections are underlined
The pie chart show the frequency with which adults in the US use social media to obtain news. Overall, it is clear that less than half use it on a regular basis.
One of the most significant points in the data is that just under two fifths of people report that they never accessed the news via social media. To be precise, 38% of respondents gave this response, which is the highest of all categories. The second highest category is those who sometimes find out the news from social media sites. Around a quarter (26%) of those surveyed selected this response, which is 12% fever than the 'never' group. Finally, there was a tie for the least common response. Equal numbers of respondents 'hardly ever' and 'often' use social media to find out what is going on in the world.
To conclude, social media is used to get news often or sometimes by just 44%. It is evident from the data that majority of citizens do not read news on these sites.
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10. Put the errors in the description in exercise 9 into the following categories. Some categories have more than one error.
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1. tenses:
2. singular/plural/countable/uncountable:
3. articles:
4. active/passive:
5. subject-verb agreement:
6. punctuation/capital letters:
7. prepositions:
8. comparatives/superlatives: |
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11. Read the following pairs of sentences and decide which one, A or B, would score higher in the IELTS test. Give reasons.
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A. The pie chart data indicate that the primary news source for under 25s in Brazil is social media.
B. Social media is indicated by the pie chart data to be the primary news source for under 25s in Brazil.
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A. One thing we can see from the data is that some media sources are less popular than 20 years ago.
B. One thing that can be seen from the data is that some media sources are less popular than 20 years ago.
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A. The number of online newspaper subscriptions has increased by 20% since 2005.
B. The number of online newspaper subscriptions has been increased by 20% since 2005.
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A. The data reveal that the most popular news stories are sports stories, followed in second place by political news.
B. It is revealed by the data that the most popular news stories are sports stories, followed in second place by political news.
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A. Between 2005 and 2015 the proportion of over 40s using online news sites was almost doubled.
B. Between 2005 and 2015 the proportion of over 40s using online news sites almost doubled.
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Suggested Answer
1 Sentence A is more natural. Sentence B,whilst grammatically
possible, feels unnatural. Verbs for describing visual data such as
indicate, show, reveal, demonstrate, suggest are intransitive in this
context and rarely used in the passive in this way.
2 Sentence B. Using we in One thing we can see has a more informal
feel. Using the passive here gives a more objective tone and
demonstrates the use of modal passive forms.
3 Sentence A is more natural. Sentence B gives the impression that
somebody made the number of subscriptions increase. We don't
usually use verbs of increase or decrease (rise, fall, go up/down,
reduce, etc.) in the passive in this kind of report.
4 SentenceA is more natural. (see answer 1)
5 Sentence B. Sentence A gives the impression that somebody
doubled the number of over 40s rather than it simply increased.
See answer 3for other verbs that we probably wouldn't use in the
passive in this kind of essay
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