Friday 2 September 2011

Describing trends


Sales of audio cassettes fell steadily.


The number of books sold rose gradually

Thursday 1 September 2011

Vocabulary for IELTS graph description

There are many verbs, adjectives and adverbs used to describe trends
  • Verbs
    • rose (to), increased (to), went up (to), climbed (to)
These verbs show that the trend was going upwards

    • fell (to), declined (to), decreased (to), dropped (to), went down (to), reduced (to)
These verbs show that the trend was going downwards