The two bar charts show the proportion of 14-16 year-old students studying a modern foreign language in an English Speaking country and the top three popular foreign languages. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The two bar charts show the proportion of 14-16 year-old students studying a modern foreign language in an English Speaking country and the top three popular foreign languages. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The given bar charts
illustrates
Change the verb form
illustrate
show examples
the percentage of
students
who studied a foreign language in
an
Correct article usage
apply
show examples
English and the top three foreign languages from 1984 to 2007.
Overall
, it can be seen that the proportion of girls was higher than boys in studying English.
Additionally
, it can be noted that French was the most popular tongue
which
Correct pronoun usage
apply
show examples
studied by
students
. Looking at the number of girls and boys who studied
foreign
Correct article usage
a foreign
show examples
language in an
English speaking
Add a hyphen
English-speaking
show examples
country
were
Correct subject-verb agreement
was
show examples
about 48% and 30%, respectively. After that, the
girls
Change to a genitive case
girl's
girls'
show examples
proportion
had
Verb problem
apply
show examples
a
Correct article usage
apply
show examples
decrease
Replace the word
decreased
show examples
to 40% and the
boy
Fix the agreement mistake
boys
show examples
also
declined to nearly 35%. Turning towards
to
Change preposition
apply
show examples
the percentage of top three languages which
students
studied almost, French, German and Spanish. In terms of French, it was 50% in the initial year of the period,
then
it decreased dramatically to roughly 24% by 2007.
About
Change preposition
In
show examples
German
Replace the word
Germany
show examples
, it had 20% of the
students
choosing
Wrong verb form
chose
show examples
to study,
however
,
it
Correct pronoun usage
this
show examples
fell
down
Change preposition
apply
show examples
to 14% in the final year. With the exception of Spanish, it was about 4% in 1987, after that the final year saw a marginal increase of 6%.
Submitted by Nghỉ hè vui vẻ cả nhà on

Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Writing9 with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

Vocabulary: Replace the words students with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "decrease" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 3 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportion
  • modern foreign languages
  • English-speaking country
  • demographic
  • participation
  • gender disparities
  • trends
  • popularity rankings
  • analyzing
  • implications
  • cultural factors
  • economic ties
  • global job market
  • increasingly globalized
What to do next:
Look at other essays: