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1. What is the title of this graph?
2. What are the units of the x-axis? What are the units of the y-axis?
3. Describe the change from 2008 to 2009.
4. Describe the change from 2009 to 2010.
5. Describe the overall trend for the entire period.
1. What is the title of this table?
2. What is the title of column 1? What is the title of column 2?
3. What is the name of the item in line (row) 1?
4. Compare line item 2 with line item 3.
5. Which two line items have the greatest impact on savings?
Introducing visuals
● According to Figure 1, …
● Figure 2 below...
● Table 1 above…
Verbs to refer to visuals
Figure 1 shows the average cost of starting a small
business in ten Latin American countries.
to show
Figures 2 and 3 display the average cost of starting a
small business in North America and Europe,
to display respectively.