Chapter 2: Describing Data And Change

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1. 01

   Sprint 2.1: Rise, Plummet, Plateau

   Learner selects a trend verb whose steepness matches the line on the chart, and knows which trend verbs are intransitive.

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2. 02

   Sprint 2.2: Sharply, Steadily, Marginally

   Academic module only. Learner pairs a degree adverb with a trend verb without contradiction, and uses the adjective form correctly in the noun construction.

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3. 03

   Sprint 2.3: Approximately, Just Under, In Excess Of

   Learner varies approximation language across a Task 1 response instead of repeating about, and places each expression on the correct side of the number.

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4. 04

   Sprint 2.4: Proportion And Comparison

   Academic module only. Learner expresses proportion and multiple-comparison accurately, including the respectively construction that Band 7 Task 1 responses use to compress data.

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5. 05

   Sprint 2.5: Peaks, Troughs And Periods

   Academic module only. Learner frames a Task 1 description in time, naming extremes and periods rather than walking through every year.

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6. 06

   Chapter 2 Review: Describing The Line

   Learner retrieves all forty Chapter 2 items, pairs trend verbs with adverbs that do not contradict them, and produces a Task 1 overview graded against the Lexical Resource descriptors.

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