120 WORDS, DESCRIBING THE INFORMATION IN THE CHART”.OCEANIANORTHER...

100-120 words, describing the information in the chart”.Oceania

Northern

2%

America

Latin

^6%

America South Asia

8%

32%Africa11%Europe East Asia15% 26%Students have to do the task with the following suggestions of useful language:- It can be seen that- distributed unevenly- account for… per cent- more than double the population of- half as much as/ nearly half of- rank first/ lastAnd the beginning “The chart shows the distribution of world population by region. …”With all these cues, the student

wrote:

writing ErrorsThe chart shows the distribution of worldpopulation by region. It can be seen that → lack “the world” and verbpopulation distributed unevenly. South Asia → form of the verb→ lack the verb and wrongaccount for 32 percent and more than double theinformationpopulation of Europe. Latin America more than→ form of the verbdouble the population of Europe. Northern→ spoken languageAmerica nearly double the population of Africa.Oceania account for 2 percent. Rank first SouthAsia, second East Asia and seventh Oceania.In Unit 11 – Sources of energy (Tieng Anh 11-Page 130), a bar chart is given for students to write the description of it.In Task 2, they are required to write the same writing as Task 1. However, theygave some mistakes in their writings.Writing ErrorsThe chart shows the energy consumption inHighland in 2005. As can be seen, the totalenergy consumption was 170 million ton. → spelling mistake→ wrong informationPetroleum made up the largest amount of thisfigure (50 million tons). This was followed by the→ wrong answerconsumption of smallest (45 million tons).→ wrong wordNuclear and hydroelectricity made up thebiggest amount of energy consumption (75million tons)energy consumption was 170 million tons.Petroleum made up the largest amount of this → wrong informationfigure (75 million tons). This was followed by theconsumption of nuclear and hydroelectricity (50 → wrong informationmillion tons). Coal made up the smallest amountof energy consumption (45 million tons)And many students did like these.After doing Task 1 and Task 2 with the requirements in textbook, students did Task3 by combining two these tasks in turn.