Task 2: Understand the main points of information presented in tables
Now, we
will focus on exploring tables. This type of GOs is very popular to students
and teachers. Therefore, it is necessary for you, as professional EFL teachers,
to understand about how to comprehend and present information in tables.
What are tables? What is the purpose of presenting
information in tables? How to read tables? How are information presented using
them?
First, watch
this short video. It provides you with information about what tables are.
Now, you know what is meant by tables.
Next, read Text 1 below to
find answer to the above questions. There are two exercises you need to
complete based on your understanding of Text 1.
Text 1
A table is a way of writing
information in rows and columns.
The table below shows the average
temperature highs and lows in Jamaica (measured in degrees centigrade) each
month.
|
Month of the year
|
Average daytime temperature 0C
|
Average nighttime temperature 0C
|
|
January
|
30
|
19
|
|
February
|
29
|
20
|
|
March
|
30
|
21
|
|
April
|
31
|
21
|
|
May
|
31
|
22
|
|
June
|
32
|
23
|
|
July
|
32
|
23
|
|
August
|
33
|
27
|
|
September
|
32
|
23
|
|
October
|
32
|
23
|
|
November
|
31
|
22
|
|
December
|
31
|
21
|
Extracting information from tables
You could be asked
questions about this table. To find answers you should read along the row and
down the column. Usually you’ll only need to find the correct information in
the table and give a report, although you could be asked to make a calculation
using information in the table.
Examples
Which month of the year had the highest average daytime
temperature in Jamaica?
¾ Reading down the Average daytime temperature
column, you can see that August has a temperature of 33°C.
What is the difference between the highest average
daytime temperature in December and the lowest average nighttime temperature in
December?
¾ Here you will need to find the row for
December and look across to get the lowest and highest temperatures for that
month, then subtract the lowest temperature from the highest temperature to
find the difference: 31 – 21 = 10°C.
A
Do these exercise and quizzes to check
your understanding of the explanation in Text 1.
B Study the following table and do all the
exercises that follow.
|
Country
|
Number of speakers of English as a first language
|
Number of speakers of English as an additional language
|
Total number of English speakers
|
|
The United States
|
215,000,000
|
36,000,000
|
251,000,000
|
|
India
|
200,000
|
90,000,000
|
90,200,000
|
|
Nigeria
|
4,000,000
|
75,000,000
|
79,000,000
|
|
58,100,000
|
1,500,000
|
59,600,000
|
1
What is the purpose of this table?
A To explain changes over time in the number
of English speakers among the countries.
B
To
present classifications of English speakers among the countries.
C
To
describe the number of English speakers among the countries within two
categories.
Put the words into the correct form.
2
The
number of speakers of English as a first language (200,000) is particular low.
3
The
number of speakers of English as an additional language, 36 million, is consider higher than in the UK (only 1.5 million).
4
Here,
they are main speakers of English as an additional language (75 million
out of 79 million).
5
The
number of speakers of English as a first language, four million, is strike low
compared to the 75 million who speak English as an additional language.
6
People
who speak English are large speaking it as a first language (215 million
first language speakers out of a total of 251 million).
7
With
fewer than 60 million English speakers in total, there are notice fewer
speakers of English as an additional language than in the other three
countries.
Look back at the previous Table. Match each of the sentence in the
above exercise with a country in the table.
8
Sentence
1 _____India ______
9
Sentence
2 _____United
States__________
10
Sentence
3 _____Nigeria__________
11
Sentence
4 _____Nigeria__________
12
Sentence
5 _____United
states__________
13
Sentence
6 _____United
Kingdom__________
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