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the charts below show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages in addition to English, in 2000 and 2010

the charts below show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages in addition to English, in 2000 and 2010
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The given charts compare the percentages of British undergraduates who could speak more than one
language
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 in a specific university in the and 2010 respectively. At the first glance,
it is clear that
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 Spanish was by far the most spoken
language
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beside
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 English
in
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 that university.
Moreover
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,
students
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 became interested in
other
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another language
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language
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 over the period of 10 years.
According to
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 the charts, in 2000, 30% of
students
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 were able to communicate in Spanish only, which doubled
than
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that figure for French
speaks
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speakers
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, followed by 10% of
students
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 who could
spoke
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speak
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 German fluently. In the
next
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 ten years, the number of speaking
students
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 increased a fall
whereas
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 the data for
German fluent
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students
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 remained unchanged. The table data clearly show that the number of
students
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 knowing at least one other
language
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beside
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 their mother tongue rose to 20% from 15%.
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 15% of
student
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students
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 were trilingual in the year 2010.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words language, students with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "charts" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "data" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportions
  • British students
  • university
  • speaking other languages
  • language proficiency
  • overall trends
  • comparison
  • 2000
  • 2010
  • chart
  • data
  • percentage
  • significant
  • increase
  • decrease
  • noteworthy
  • comparative analysis
  • improvement
  • decline
  • conclusion
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