The pie charts below show responses by teachers of foreign languages in Britain to a survey concerning why their students are learning a foreign language. The first chart shows the main reason for learning a foreign language. The second chart shows how many teachers felt that there has been a recent change in the reason. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.

The pie charts below show responses by teachers of foreign languages in Britain to a survey concerning why their students are learning a foreign language. The first chart shows the main reason for learning a foreign language. The second chart shows how many teachers felt that there has been a recent change in the reason. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.
The first pie chart depicts
main
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the main
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reasons
for learning a foreign
language
among students
according to
data given by
teachers
in a survey in Britain,
while
the
second
one shows percentages of
teachers
who reported that a particular
reason
has become more popular or nothing has changed. In general, the most popular
reason
why people learn a foreign
language
is tourism followed by
business
and work and buying
property
overseas. Obviously, the other
reasons
which
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reported by less than 10% of
teachers
are not so common. In terms of how
popularity
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the popularity
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of
reasons
for studying a new
language
has changed,
according to
responders
reasons
as
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such as
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buying
property
in a foreign country,
business
and social media have become
a
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way more popular recently
while
insignificant
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an insignificant
the insignificant
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number of
teachers
said that there has been an increase in other sectors. Now turning to the details, only 3% of
responders
see a foreign partner as the most popular
reason
for learning a foreign
language
among their students,
while
the percentage
for
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of
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teachers
considering general interest
for
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a
language
as
most
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the most
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conventional
reason
for studying it is a bit more and
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5% . Personal development and social contacts were reported as the main motivation for learning a new
language
among students by the same proportions of
teachers
and it is 7%. Among
reasons
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the reasons
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which have mentioned in
these
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these paragraphs
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paragraph
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the most significant increase was witnessed by the
reason
defined as social contacts
according to
15% of
responders
,
while
personal development, general interest
an
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and
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foreign partner was mentioned as the
reason
which increased in popularity more by 4%, 6% and 4% respectively. The most 3 popular
reasons
to study a foreign
language
which are
traveling
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(33%),
business
and work(26%) and buying
property
overseas(19%)
also
were considered
reasons
having the most increase in popularity by the most numbers of
responders
except
traveling
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which reported only by 3% of
participant
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the participant
a participant
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. Buying
property
overseas increased the most
according to
34% of the
teachers
,
while
for
business
and work
this
number was 19%.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "according to, while".
Common mistake: Your writing should be 150-250 words.
Vocabulary: Replace the words reasons, language, teachers, reason, business, property, responders with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "changed" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentages" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 5 times.
Vocabulary: The word "significant" was used 2 times.

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