Task 1 - 4 and Assignment Graphic Organizer M5 LA3
Task 1: Understand
the nature of Graphic Organizers
In Learning Activity 3, you are to explore
one form of text types commonly found in academic interactions; that is the
graphic organizers or GOs. How much do you know about this text type? Why is it
necessary for you to be knowledgeable and skillful in working with it?
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GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS QUIZ. Do the quiz. Write a T at the end of each statement when you think the
statement is TRUE; or an F when you
think it is FALSE. One of them has
been done for you.
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STATEMENTS
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T/F
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A graphic organizer is a visual display that demonstrates
relationships between facts, concepts or ideas.
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T
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Graphic organizer or GO is a term to describe all visual
learning strategies such as concept
mapping, webbing, mind mapping, and more.
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T
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3
GO is used to “map out” ideas using different structures
depending on the purpose of the task.
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T
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GO helps readers/listeners understand information more
quickly as they are forced to identify key information and chunk that
information into meaningful units;
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T
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GO presents more memorable information to readers/listeners
since relationships between various facts and ideas are visually reinforced.
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T
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GO can be used as presentation tools to communicate
information.
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T
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GO is also a useful learning tool to help in note-taking and
planning presentations.
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T
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GO can serve different social function or communicative
purpose; e.g. to explain, to describe, or to show similarities and
differences.
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T
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Teachers can use GO to help present their teaching materials
to students.
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T
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10 Teachers can develop students’ visual literacy
by involving them in comprehending and presenting information in GOs.
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T
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Task 2: Understand
the main points of information presented in tables
A Do these exercise and
quizzes to check your understanding of the explanation in Text 1.
1.
Which month of the year has the lowest average nighttime
temperature?
According to the Average lowest temperature column, January has a temperature of 19°C
According to the Average lowest temperature column, January has a temperature of 19°C
2.
What is the highest average daytime temperature and the lowest
average nighttime temperature for June?
According to the row for June, the Average
highest temperature is 32C and the Average lowest temperature is 23°C
3.
Which four months has the same average highest daytime
temperature of 31°C?
April, May, November, December
4.
How many months have an average lowest nighttime temperature
of 21°C? Name the months.
3 Months, March, April, and December
5.
What is the difference between the highest average daytime
temperature and the lowest average nighttime temperature in January?
The difference between the highest average
daytime temperature and the lowest average nighttime temperature in January is
11°C difference.
Level A
1. In the car
expenses table, which of these is a row heading? Petrol
2. What does the
title of the table tell you? What the table is all
about
3. In the table,
which of these is a column heading? March
4. Look at this
table. How much would 14 nights accommodation at Tides Reach cost? £480
5. Which
accommodation offers the better value per person for a 7-night stay - Sea View
or Tides Reach?
Tides Reach
6. The table shows
the average monthly temperatures for Sydney. Australia. What is the highest
average temperature? 34°C
7. Which month has
the lowest temperature? July
8. The table shows
the summary data about events held over a 2-year period. The total number of
1/2 day courses held is 36. True
9. From the table
work out the total income earned from conferences £66 892
10. From the table work
out which type of event had the highest attendance in Year 2? 1-day course
Level B
1. The café run by
Friends of Nelson Hospital has the following items on its menu for today. Edith
orders a pizza slice and a cup of tea. How much will it cost? £2.10
2. From the menu,
which is the cheapest type of sandwich ? cheese
and tomato
3. Mr Bose and his
carer stop for a drink after an appointment. Mr Bose orders a coffee and his
carer has a soft drink. Will £1.50 cover the cost of both drinks? Yes
4. Look at this table
of staff preferences for meetings. How many workers prefer meeting in the afternoon?
22
5. From the table,
which is the least popular day for a staff meeting? Monday
6. Again, from the
table, on which day of the week are at
least half the staff group available for meetings? Wednesday
7. A company
undertakes a survey to find out how its
employees' come to work. From the table can you work out how many employees use
more than 1 mode of public transport? 4
8. Less than half the
employees use cars or bikes. True
9. Look at the table.
On which evening is the restaurant closed? Sunday
10. What are the
opening hours on a Saturday evening? 6.30
pm - 11.30 pm
Level C
1. Caroline needs to
get to Stansted Airport by 10.45am latest. Which of the scheduled trains will not get her there on time? The 10:10 and the 10:25
2. Which train is
scheduled to takes longer than 47 minutes to get from Liverpool Street to
Stansted Airport? 09:40
3. From the list,
what is the frequency of train services from Liverpool Street to Standsted
Airport?
every 15 minutes
4. From the list, how
many trains are leaving between 9.30am and 10.15am? 3
5. Look at the table
below. How much would three toppings on a large pizza cost? £3.30
6. How much does a
medium pizza with 2 toppings cost? £2.50
7. Pia has recently
moved to New Town and is finding out what's on offer at some local leisure
centres. How many of these do not have a swimming pool? 2
8. 7 leisure centres
offer gym, swimming and steam/sauna. True
9. Abraham Moss and
Chorlton leisure centres offer the most sports facilities. True
10. 5 leisure centres
offer both badminton and squash True
B
Study
the following table and do all the exercises that follow.
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Country
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Number of speakers of English as a first
language
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Number of speakers of English as an
additional language
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Total number of English speakers
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The United States
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215,000,000
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36,000,000
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251,000,000
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India
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200,000
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90,000,000
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90,200,000
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Nigeria
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4,000,000
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75,000,000
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79,000,000
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58,100,000
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1,500,000
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59,600,000
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What is the purpose of this table?
The purposes of the table are
1. to explain changes over time in the number
of English speakers among the countries.
2. to present classifications of English
speakers among the countries.
3. to describe the number of English speakers
among the countries within two categories.
2
The number of speakers of English as a first language
(200,000) is particular low.
3
The number of speakers of English as an additional language,
36 million, is consider higher than in the UK (only 1.5 million).
4
Here, they are main speakers of English as an
additional language (75 million out of 79 million).
5
The number of speakers of English as a first language, four
million, is strike low compared to the 75 million who speak English as
an additional language.
6
People who speak English are large speaking it as a
first language (215 million first language speakers out of a total of 251
million).
7
With fewer than 60 million English speakers in total, there
are (notice) fewer speakers of English as an additional language than in
the other three countries.
Look
back at the previous Table. Match each of the sentence in the above exercise
with a country in the table.
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Sentence 1 India
9
Sentence 2 United
States
10 Sentence 3 Nigeria
11 Sentence 4 Nigeria
12 Sentence 5 United States
13 Sentence 6 United Kingdom
Task 3: Understand
the main points of information presented in charts
A
Do this
exercise and quizzes to check your understanding of the explanation in Text 1.
Answer the following questions using the
bar chart above:
1. Who scored the most goals? Dimitar
2. How many goals did Carlos score? 19 Goals
3. Which three players scored ten goals? Johan, Wayne,
and Salomon
4. How many more goals did Dimitar score
than Didier? 9 Goals
5. How many players scored more than 15
goals? Two players (Carlos
and Dimitar)
ANSWERS
Level A
1.
D. 10
2.
C. 6
people
3.
C. 7
students have brown eyes.
4.
C. 20
cans
5.
A. The
number of times something is recorded.
6.
D. 10
7.
B. 12
8.
C. 15
9.
C.
Thursday.
10. A. 5 drinks.
Level B
1. B. The vertical axis is the line which goes from top to bottom
on the left hand side of the chart.
2. B. The horizontal axis is the line along the bottom of the
chart.
3. C. 35 trees
4. A title.
5. The boxes are different sizes.
6. Tuesday.
7. 35 newspapers.
8. C. Red.
9. D. 12.
10. D. Swimming.
Level C
1.
D. 30.
2.
B. 9.
3.
D. The
key tells you what each bar colour represents.
4.
C. 50.
5.
B.
False.
6.
A.
True.
7.
D. A
key.
8.
D. 16
houses.
9.
B. 1/2
a house
10. C. July
Now,
study this other bar chart carefully to answer the questions listed below.
The
chart provides the means of transport used by International visitor to New
Zealand during visit
(2) What is the commonest means of transport? What percentage of
visitors use it?
The
commonest means of transport is car with 69%
use a car.
(3) Which two means of transport are used almost the same amount?
What percentage of visitors use them?
Plane
and Coach are used almost the same amount with 32% of plane and 31% of coach
(4) What is the fourth most popular means of transport? What
percentage of visitors use it?
The
fourth most popular means of transport is Train with 20% visitors use it.
(5) Which means of transport is used least? What percentage of
visitors use it?
Boat
is used least with 8% of visitors use it.
(6) Overall, which is more popular: private transport or public
transport?
Private
transport is more popular tha public transport.
A
Line and Pie Charts
Answer these questions
based on the line chart that follows.
(1)
What information does the chart provide?
What information does the chart provide?
The chart provides the information about montly temperature
of three cities for one year
(2)
What
is the most possible purpose of the chart?
To describe temperature changes of three cities in a year and
to compare it with 3 cities.
(3)
Which
month has the highest average monthly temperature in the three cities? What is
the temperature height?
June is the highest average monthly temperature in three
cities and it is 340C.
(4)
Which
month has the lowest temperature in Cairo? What is the average temperature for
Singapore for the same month?
It is January in Cairo. It is 260C in Singapore
(5)
Which
city has the most extreme temperature difference throughout the year? What is
the minimum temperature? What is its highest one?
New Delhi has the most extreme temperature difference
throughout the year. The minimun temperature is 140C. The highest
one is 340C.
(6)
Which
city has the most stable temperature? What is the lowest temperature for this
city? When does it happen?
Singapore has the most stable temperature. The lowest
temperatue for this city is 260C. It happens in January.
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(2)
What percentage of
visitors go to New Zealand to see friends and family?
(3)
What does the figure
13% refer to?
(4)
What is meant by
other on the chart?
(5)
In general, do more
people visit New Zealand for work or pleasure?
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For Holiday
29%
the number of people
who go to New Zealand on business
other reasons
for pleasure
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Task 4: Describing
the main points of information presented in table
and charts
A
The following line
chart shows use of transport by international visitors during their visit in
New Zealand. Can you complete the sentences in the following summary of the
graph? Use the expressions in the box to help you.
The
chart shows (1) f. holiday activities preferred by
international visitors in New Zealand. The most popular activity is
walking, which (2) c. 85 percent of people on holiday do.
Seventy-five percent of visitors (3)
d. go to see places of
interest/go sightseeing and (4) g. 45 percent go to see volcanoes. Another
popular activity is boating, which (5)
b. 50 percent of holidaymakers do. Just
over (6) e. 40 percent of visitors
also like (7) a. going to museums .
Overall, (8) h. people enjoy doing outdoor activities more than
indoor activities.
B
Now, try some more
practice with the following.
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(1)
The
chart gives information on the means of transport used by overseas visitors to
travel in New Zealand.
(2)
Nearly
70 percent of visitors travel around in New Zealand by car, which is the
commonest mode of transport.
(3)
The
second and third most common ways of travelling in the country are by plane or
coach, and just over 30 percent of visitors use each of these.
(4)
By
comparison, only 20 percent of visitors use trains. The least popular method of
travel is boat, which six perce of travellers use.
(5)
Overall,
the chart shows that although cars are the most popular means of transport,
more people use public transport than private transport.
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Write
a good summary to describe the above chart from the jumbled sentences below:
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(1)
The
chart gives information about where people who travel to come from.
(2)
The
percentage of visitors from Australia is the highest, at 40 percent.
(3)
27
percent comes from other European countries.
(4)
The
third largest group, 12 percent, comes from the United Kingdom, and 9 percent
go to the United States.
(5)
The
East Asian countries, China, Japan and South Korea, send 5 percent, 4 percent
and 3 percent each.
(6)
Overall,
more than 70 percent of visitors come from English-speaking countries.
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3
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Percentage of passenger kilometres
by different modes of transport in Shanghai |
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(1)
The
table predicts changes in the types of transport used in Shanghai between
1996 and 2020.
(2)
The
figures show that in 1996 the most popular form of transport was public bus,
accounting for 39% of passenger kilometers.
(3)
This
was followed by bicycles with 27% whereas cars and scooters were used less,
representing only 15% and 12% of passenger travel respectively.
(4)
It
is expected that in 2020 the use of cars will increase dramatically and
account for over half of all distance travelled (52%).
(5)
Bus
journeys, for example, will only represent 22% of distances travelled, while
bicycle trips will drop to as little as 3%, similar to the figure for
walking.
(6)
In
addition, trains will probably account for 13% of passenger kilometers, while
the use of all other means of transport will decrease.
(7)
Predictably,
walking made up the smallest percentage.
(8)
Overall,
the table predicts a massive increase in the use of cars by 2020, at the
expense of other forms of transport.
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ASSIGNMENT
To complete your
work on Learning Activity 3, you need to do the tasks in this
assignmentsection. Go to the
tasks now and follow the instructions.
Questions 1-5
Where are we going for dinner?
Answer Questions
1-5 based on the above bar chart.
1.
What information does the above chart provide?
The above chart
provides information about average weekly expenditures on meals away from home,
spent by American households of different income groups in 2009
2.
What is the social function of the chart?
To compare the average
weekly expenditures on meals away from home spent by American households of
different income groups in 2009
3.
What does the bar in purple color means? The orange color??
It means the
average expenditure by American households on dinner
4.
In average, how much would the second income group spend on dining
out in a month?
It would spend
$11
5.
Where does the data for this chart come from? Is the source
of data credible? How do you know ?
The data for
this chart comes from U.S Buereau of Labor Statistics. I think it is credible.
We can find the information on this chart and its data comes from local
govenrment.
Questions
6-10
Changing trends in café income[ii]
Answer Questions
6-10 based on the above line chart.
6.
What do the letters J, F, M, etc, along the bottom of the
graph mean? The letters mean the names of month.
7.
What does 000s mean? It means in thousands
8.
What patterns can you see? We can see the patterns line
showing fluctuated trend of income.
9.
What comparisons can you make?
It can be seen that the tea room’s
revenue reached the highest at about $160.000 of four cafes in January. By
constract, the income of the other three received a climb by vary degrees. In
the January-November period, the revenue of cafe cool not only stably went up
but also achieved the highest in most months in comparison with that of cafe
cool and wi-fi cafe. Nevertheless, the last of year, the income of wi-fi cafe
rocketed to a peak of approximately $190.000, followed up were internet express
and cafe cool at about $130.000 and $120.000
10. Complete the
summary for the chart below. Match options a-g with gaps 1-7 in the text.
1.
Significantly
2.
A rise
3.
also went up
4.
a steady fall
5.
steadily
6.
double
7.
then rocketed
Answer these
questions based on the line chart that follows.
(1)
What information does the chart provide?
The chart provides the information about montly temperature
of three cities for one year
(2)
What
is the most possible purpose of the chart?
To describe temperature changes of three cities in a year and
to compare it with 3 cities.
(3)
Which
month has the highest average monthly temperature in the three cities? What is
the temperature height?
June is the highest average monthly temperature in three
cities and it is 340C.
(4)
Which
month has the lowest temperature in Cairo? What is the average temperature for
Singapore for the same month?
It is January in Cairo. It is 260C in Singapore
(5)
Which
city has the most extreme temperature difference throughout the year? What is
the minimum temperature? What is its highest one?
New Delhi has the most extreme temperature difference
throughout the year. The minimun temperature is 140C. The highest
one is 340C.
(6)
Which
city has the most stable temperature? What is the lowest temperature for this
city? When does it happen?
Singapore has the most stable temperature. The lowest
temperatue for this city is 260C. It happens in January.
Questions 11-15
GO 3
How do we use water in the home?
Answer Questions
11-15 based on the above pie chart.
- What information does the
chart provide?
It provides the
information about the water use
activities / water consumption in home.
- What is the most possible
purpose of the chart?
To explain and
descire the water use activities / water consumption in home.
- What does each colored
section in the chart mean/represent?
It means about
the activity of use water / water consumption in home.
- What comparisons can you
make with data in the chart? Write out five of them.?
1.
93% total water consumption used indoors is more than 7% outdoors.
2. It
used to be thought that showers used less water than baths
3.
Toilet flushing used most water of all
4.
It used to be thought that drinking water used least of all
5.
It used to be thought that water consumption used outdoor is less than only
washing up water consumption.
15. Compare data
in the chart with your own use of water. Report the results in not more than
150 words.
There are no
water consumption for outdoors and other in my home. We only spend water for
washing dishes, clothes, showers, and toilet flushing. The most use of water in
my home is for shower. It is almost 35%. While washing clothes is more than
toilet flushing. It is only 25% of waterconsumption in my home. Toilet flushing
only spends 20% of waterconsumption in my house as much as washing dishes.
[i]Food
for Thought | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticshttps://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2010/food/|November 2010
[ii]McCarter,
S., & Whitby, N. (2014). Improve your Skills: Writing for IELTS with Answer
Key. London: Macmillan Education, p. 8-9.
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