7. Place the correct letter in the right box.

	slump		rise		recover		plunge		pick up		hold steady
	drop		soar		climb		fall		rally		bounce back
	crash		slide		stabilize		escalate		decline		take off
	rocket		dip		fluctuate		plummet				flatten out

! To introduce visuals and name the parts of a diagram you can use the following phrases:

Introducing visuals

Naming the parts of diagrams

I'd like you to look at this graph... Let me show you this pie chart... Let's have a look at this model... Let's turn to this map... To illustrate my point let’s look at some diagrams... As you can see from these figures... If you look at these photographs you'll see... If you look at this bar chart you'll notice... If you look at this histogram you'll appreciate... If you look at this flow chart you'll understand .. If you look at this matrix...

The vertical axis represents total annual … The horizontal axis shows our … The curve, The solid line, The dotted line, The broken line, The shaded area, The unshaded section, The dotted column, The coloured segment, The red bar…

8. The diagram shows how the Global Positioning System (GPS) works in order to help people find their location anywhere on Earth. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below. You should write at least 150 words.

a) Look at the diagram and answer the following questions.

• How many segments are there in the system?

• What are the main components of each segment?

• What part does each segment play in the whole system?

b) Now write a description following this plan:

1. Describe briefly what a GPS is and what the three segments of the system are.

2. Describe the space segment: what it consists of and what it does.

3. Describe the control segment: what it consists of and what it does.

4. Describe the user segment: what it consists of and what it does.

REFERENCES , USEFUL LINKS AND FURTHER READING

1. Academic Writing’, by Malashenko, Elena, 2007.

2. BCS the Chartered Institute for IT , 2012. /http://www.bcs.org/content/

3. Charts, graphs and diagrams. Business English, 2008.pp.4-9./www.thelanguagemenu.com/

1 Skimming means to get a general idea of what a text is about. Read the first paragraph (the introduction) and the last paragraph (the conclusion). Then read the first and last sentences of the other paragraphs.

2

3 fix (an object) firmly and deeply in a surrounding mass

4 B. W. Hapke and Huge van Horn. Journal of Geophysical Research, 68(15), August 1963, pp.4545–4570.