tables

1. How to describe a static diagram?

2. Comparison phrases

By contrast, (not on the contrary)
Similarly,
In a similar way,…
Likewise,
A similar/different trend can be seen in (Japan)
A slightly/totally different pattern can be observed in (Germany).
This was (very) similar to/different from…
In contrast to this,…
In comparison with this,…
Compared with this,

3. Comparison phrases

Comparison
● higher/lower than
● well above/below
● outperformed
● exceeded
● lagged/fell behind
Ranking
● the highest/lowest figure
● followed by
● ranked first/last
● among the highest/lowest
● came first/last
Difference
● a wide/significant gap
● a noticeable difference
● a slight difference
● with a difference of X%
● a difference of
Adverbs:
● considerably
● significantly
● slightly
● marginally
● substantially
Similarity
● almost the same as
● very similar to
● about as high as
● a similar level to
Contrast
● in/by contrast
● whereas
● while
● on the other hand
● compared with
● in comparison with
● unlike

4. Comparison sentence structure

A and B had + adjective + noun
Canada and Australia had similar rates.
France and Germany had comparable
figures.
A + verb + adverb + more/less than B
Sweden spent considerably less than
Turkey.
Italy spent more on clothing than Spain.
A + verb + the highest/lowest + noun
A + verb + the most/least
Turkey recorded the highest figure.
Ireland had the lowest proportion.
A was followed by B and C
Turkey ranked first, followed by Ireland.
Sweden came next, followed by Spain.

5.

How to describe a static diagram?
1. Organise the information into paragraphs
logically.
2. Mention how you have structured your data.
3. Make comparisons.

6.

How to describe a static diagram?
As there is only one year and no need to look for
any change, all we can do is
1.
2.
Compare the three categories (i.e compare
the spending on food, tobacco and drink /
clothing and footwear / leisure and
education )
Compare the individual items (i.e. compare
the 5 countries)
As we have no changes, I we will focus most on
comparatives (more / less) and superlatives
(highest / lowest).

7.

How to describe a static diagram?
Overall,

8.

How to describe a static diagram?
Overall, it can be clearly seen that all five
countries spent more on food, drinks and
tobacco than on other two categories. In
terms of individual spendings, while Italy
demonstrated the highest expenditure on
clothing and footwear, Turkey spent the
most on other two categories.
Again, what we are doing here is:
looking at all our items IN GENERAL
looking at them INDIVIDUALLY highlighting the
highest

9.

How to describe a static diagram?
In terms of organisation:
In terms of organisation, we have two options – dividing by
category or by dividing country. Usually, it is recommended using
the items (as we did in the table about forms of transport earlier)
and grouping those with a similar patterns of spending together.
However, in this chart the statistics are so similar for each country
that it is better to divide by category. This will mean that we need
three specific details paragraphs:
1.
2.
3.
BP1 = all countries spending on food, tobacco and drink
BP2 = all countries spending on clothing and footwear
BP3 = all countries spending on leisure and education
If you feel worried about having 3 paragraphs instead of usual 2, please don’t.
As long as you personally UNDERSTAND WHY you are organising your writing
like this, it’s perfectly OK.

10.

How to describe a static
diagram?
Looking more closely at Food/Drink/Tobacco spendings,
Turkey, and Ireland demonstrated very close figures: 32.14%
and 28.91% respectively. Spain, Italy, and Sweden spent
significantly less, with the percentages of 18.80%, 16.36%, and
15.77% respectively.
The figures for Clothing/Footwear were much lower compared
to the category of Food/Drink/Tobacco, with Italy accounting
for the highest percentage of 9%. Ireland, Spain and Turkey
spent a slightly lower amount of money here, with their figures
being very similar with a roughly 0.10% difference (6.43%,
6.51% and 6.63% respectively). Sweden spent the least, with
the percentage of 5.40%.
Similarly to Food/Drink/Tobacco, Turkey demonstrated the
highest index in Leisure/Education category, at 4,35%. It was
followed by Sweden and Italy with very close figures of 3.22%
and 3.20%. Ireland and Spain spent the least here, with the
percentages being 2.21% and 1.98% respectively.

11.

12.

Overall, hospital C has consistently high ratings for
all aspects, while the opposite is true for hospital B.
In terms of individual aspects, "waiting time” is
ranked the lowest for all hospitals, while the
“quality of treatment” has the highest rate of patient
satisfaction in two hospitals out of three - hospitals
A and B.

13.

Looking first at hospital staff, Hospital C received the
highest satisfaction rating, at 92%, which was considerably
higher than the figures for Hospital A (74%) and Hospital B
(65%). Turning to waiting time, Hospital C again ranked first
with 82%, whereas Hospital A recorded the lowest
percentage, at just 40%. Hospital B stood in the middle, with
50% of patients expressing satisfaction.

14.

Body Paragraph 2
(Quality of treatment + Quality of aftercare)
Regarding the quality of treatment, Hospitals A and C achieved
similarly high ratings of 85% and 84% respectively, while Hospital B
recorded a noticeably lower figure of 77%. A similar pattern can be
seen in terms of aftercare, with Hospital A receiving the highest
percentage of satisfied patients (83%), closely followed by Hospital
C (82%). By contrast, Hospital B again ranked last, at 67%.