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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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
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The two pie charts illustrate the proportions of British
students
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 who studied in England and owned other international
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language
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languages
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 except
English
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, in 2000 and 2010. Looking from an
overall
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 perspective, the pie chart is divided into six categories, where in 2000
students
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 mostly spoke only
English
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 or
Spanish
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in addition
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 to it, as happened in 2010, with the exception that
another
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other
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language
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 speakers outnumbered the
Spanish
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 speakers. In 2000, the vast majority of British
students
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 mostly spoke only
English
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 (30 %) and
one fifth
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 spoke
Spanish
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 as well. The percentage of
students
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 who spoke only French or who knew another
language
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 was 15% for both groups. The German and two other languages spoken
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students
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by students
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 percentage made up
one tenth
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one-tenth
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for
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of
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 both categories. In 2010,
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Spanish
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the Spanish
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, French and German
language
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 users portion made
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up the
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the
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 tiny minority out of all British
students
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, each group took 10% of all
students
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. A modest 15% and 20% of
students
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 spoke two other languages and French, respectively. A massive 35% of
students
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 did not speak any other
language
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 except
English
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.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words students, language, english, spanish with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "proportions" in your introduction.
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Vocabulary: Only 6 basic words for charts were used.
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Vocabulary: The word "charts" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportion
  • multilingualism
  • globalisation
  • immigration
  • education policy
  • career prospects
  • cultural understanding
  • distribution
  • percentage
  • increased/decreased
  • significant
  • trends
  • shifts
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