Features of bar chart

• Category (most/least, change)
• Quantifiers
• Approximations: approximately, about, just under/above, roughly, around, just over, …
• Fractions: one third (1/3), two thirds (2/3), a half (1/2), a quarter (1/4), three quarters (3/4) ,…
• Verbs: occupy, consist of, account for, make up, take up, contribute, comprise, …
• Time expressions: in, since, for, during, from, to, in the early … of the …, in the late …, just after turn of the…, in the 1850s, in the mid …, close to the millennium,…
• Comparisons
• Vocabularies and structures:
• Conversion: V - N, Adj. - Adv.
• Increase: increase, rise, develop, grow, develop, go up, climb up, jump, soar, rocket, steep, reach the peak, peak.
• Decrease: decrease, fall, drop, dip, go down, decline, slum, reduce, plunge, plummet, hit the bottom
• Fluctuation: hover, range, …
• Constant: level off, remain stable, remain unchanged, remain constant, stay the same, …
• Amount: slight, … < modest, … < significant, considerable, remarkable, substantial, …
• Speed: slow, … < gradual, eventual, … < fast, quick, rapid, …
• Amount + speed: slow < gentle < moderate < dramatic, sharp, steep, …
• Structures: S + V + Adv ↔ There is/was a/an Adj. N in S
• Verbs: witness, experience, show, suffer, undergo, …


Sample:


The bar chart illustrates the proportion of three main industries of the UK economy throughout 100 years. It is noticeable that there was a shift from mainly labor to intelligence.

Early of the 20th century witnessed a heavy dependence on agriculture and the manufacturing of the UK. Farmers contributed practically a half. Similarly, manufacturing accounted for approximately 45% whereas the trade sector made up slightly 5%. The middle of the 20th century experienced the same pattern.

In the latter half of the 20th century, the situation was completely reversed. There was a considerable fall in agriculture from 50% to around 10%. The same happened to manufacture when it hit the bottom of slightly one fifth. However, business and financial services showed an upward trend. In the 1970s, it was almost twice as much as those in previous years. At the turn of the new millennium, it became the major sector in the UK’s economy at over one third.