The chart below shows the different types of goods and services purchased online in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom in one year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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The chart below shows the different types of goods and services purchased online in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom in one year. 

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

Your teacher will give you six strips.  Match the strips to the descriptions.

Restate the question using different words

Summarize the main trend of the graph.

State the first main point.  (Topic Sentence)

Supporting details for first main point.

State the second main point.  (Topic Sentence)

Supporting details for second main point.

Cut up strips and shuffle.  Have students match strips to grid.

The chart shows a range of goods and services bought in one year by Internet shoppers in three different countries, namely Australia, Canada, and the UK.

We can see that the percentage of consumers making such purchases varied widely according to product/service and country.

One of the first things to note is that, generally speaking, a higher percentage of consumers in the UK made online purchases than in the other countries, with the exception of toys and financial services.

More specifically, Internet book sales in the UK exceeded those in Australia and Canada by almost a third.  A similar comparison of music sales showed UK purchases to be almost double those of the other countries.

Another thing which stands out is that in all countries, purchases of certain products were much higher than others.

For example, in the UK 64% of consumers bought music online, compared with only 2% for financial services.  On the whole, sales of entertainment goods and computer equipment were much higher than other goods and services.  These sales were roughly two to three times higher than goods such as food/drink and toys.

The chart below shows the different types of goods and services purchased online in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom in one year. 

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

Paragraph 1: Restate the question using different words// Summarize the main trend of the graph Paragraph 2: Compare the three countries against each other Paragraph 3: Compare the purchase of goods and services against each other

The chart shows a range of goods and services bought in one year by Internet shoppers in three different countries, namely Australia, Canada, and the UK.  We can see that the percentage of consumers making such purchases varied widely according to product/service and country. One of the first things to note is that, generally speaking, a higher percentage of consumers in the UK made online purchases than in the other countries, with the exception of toys and financial services.   More specifically, Internet book sales in the UK exceeded those in Australia and Canada by almost a third.  A similar comparison of music sales showed UK purchases to be almost double those of the other countries. Another thing which stands out is that in all countries, purchases of certain products were much higher than others.  For example, in the UK 64% of consumers bought music online, compared with only 2% for financial services.  On the whole, sales of entertainment goods and computer equipment were much higher than other goods and services.  These sales were roughly two to three times higher than goods such as food/drink and toys.  (186 Words)

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One of the first things to note is that, generally speaking, a higher percentage of consumers in the UK made online purchases than in the other countries, with the exception of toys and financial services.

We can see that the percentage of consumers making such purchases varied widely according to product/service and country.

For example, in the UK 64% of consumers bought music online, compared with only 2% for financial services.  On the whole, sales of entertainment goods and computer equipment were much higher than other goods and services.  These sales were roughly two to three times higher than goods such as food/drink and toys.

The chart shows a range of goods and services bought in one year by Internet shoppers in three different countries, namely Australia, Canada, and the UK.

Another thing which stands out is that in all countries, purchases of certain products were much higher than others.

More specifically, Internet book sales in the UK exceeded those in Australia and Canada by almost a third.  A similar comparison of music sales showed UK purchases to be almost double those of the other countries.