Academic Task 1

Develop Vocabulary for Describing Changes, Trends, and Comparisons

Describing changes and trends: Use a variety of verbs and nouns to describe increases, decreases, and stability in data. Basic words like “increase” and “decrease” should be supplemented with more advanced terms to avoid repetition and enhance your writing.

Examples:

Increase: rise, grow, surge, climb, escalate, soar

Decrease: fall, drop, decline, plummet, plunge, dip

Stability: remain steady, stabilize, plateau, level off

Describing magnitude and degree of changes: You should also include adverbs and adjectives to describe how significant or slight these changes are.

Examples:

  • Slight change: marginally, minimally, slightly
  • Large change: dramatically, significantly, substantially, sharply

Describing time-based changes: Use appropriate verb tenses to show the timing of changes (e.g., past, present, or future trends).

Examples:

  • “From 2000 to 2010, the population increased gradually.”
  • “Sales are projected to rise in the next decade.”

Making comparisons: Comparative language is crucial for Academic Task 1, where you often need to compare data points.

Examples:

  • “X was higher than Y throughout the period.”
  • “X increased at a faster rate compared to Y.”
  • “The percentage of people using public transport in 2010 was twice as high as in 2000.”
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