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Dealing with figures

Dealing with figures. Figures and numbers Comparing Statistics : basic vocabulary. Figures and numbers. Number  : a high number - a low number Figures : it is important to give the exact figures of ... / a round figure Digit : chiffre a double-digit number

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Dealing with figures

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  1. Dealingwith figures Figures and numbers Comparing Statistics: basic vocabulary

  2. Figures and numbers • Number : a highnumber - a lownumber • Figures : itis important to give the exact figures of ... / a round figure • Digit : chiffre • a double-digit number • A double-digit increase in • Rate (literacy rate, birth rate, death rate, drop-out rate) • Average : on average... • An average 60% of youths attend schoolregularly • Outnumber (=be more numerousthan) • Girls diagnosedwithanorexiaoutnumber boys. • A percentage • A threshold: un seuil

  3. Counting • Absence of : zero • for temperatures (6 degrees minus zero) • o : in phone numbers (607 323) - nought : mostcommon • Mind the spelling of 40: forty vs. 14 fourteen(pronouncedwith a long vowel) • 3.4 : three point four (the English point stand for the French coma) 3,250: threethousandtwohundred and fifty • 387 : threehundred and eightyseven MAIS 3,004 : threethousand and four • dates are read in two parts: 1974 (nineteenseventy-four) except for 1600s (in the sixteenhundreds) • DATES : December, 23rd, 1904 «  December the twentythird, nineteen o four • le début des années 60 : the early sixties / the late1990s • hewas in hislate fifties - the undertwenties

  4. 15,300 : fifteenthousandthreehundred people PAS DE ‘S’ • DOZEN, MILLION, THOUSAND, HUNDRED sont invariables sauf avant of : dozens of students... • la plupart de: most Observe the use of the article: Most people over 80 sufferfrommemorydisorders. Most of the childrensurveyedreportedsufferingfromminordepression. L’emploi de l’article n’est pas lié à la traduction de ‘la’ dans ‘la plupart’ mais à la détermination éventuelle du nom en anglais. In most cases, depressiondoes not cause any cognitive impairment. In most of the cases thatwerereported in thisenquiry, the childrenfailedatschool.

  5. Classifying • First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth... twentiethcentury • Rank (se classer): This car ranksfirst in speed The first and foremostpriorityis to free schools of violence. The very first aim of thisresearchis to… First among the researchers’ prioritywas the correlationbetweenachievement and income. (to) prioritize / set, determinepriorities Draw a list of • 21st : twentyfirst, 22nd: the twenty-second The hundredth (le centième) For the umpteenth time: la enième fois • Names of rulers: Elisabeth the first. Louis the sixteenth • Mind the position of LAST/ FIRST / NEXT In the last twodecades - the first twochapters

  6. Quantifying • Significantquantities (sizeableamounts of): many / much (u) Manypupilsunderachieve. Much work and patience isrequired to succeed. somany /much... that Twice (three times, half…) as many / much as Twice as many black pupils as white ones are punishedatschool. • A LOT OF - LOTS OF – hoards of, loads of • Small quantity of: FEW (a few) / LITTLE Very few youthsreportedbeingseverelybullied. A few werelying. Verylittlehopeisleft.

  7. Any • Any s’emploie dans les phrases négatives, le plus souvent + hardly, barely. There washardlyanyproblemwhichremainedunexplored. • Dans les phrases negativesany peut laisser place à no si l’on veut insister sur la négation. There isn’tanycase in whichmisbehaviourwas not punished. In no case didmisbehaviourremainunpunished. • Any suppose une indifférenciation: «  - Can I have something to eat ? - Yes, of course. What do youwant ? - I don’t know, anything. »

  8. All, each, every, no • ALL + pluriel: All the parents reportedbeingworried for their kids’ well-being. • EVERY+ sing: Everychildrequiresequal attention. Everyone, everywhere • EACH ou EVERY ? Study each sentence separately. I have read every book in the library. Each player has a different T-shirt. I want to visit every country in the world. • SOME (positive, yetindeterminatequantity) Someone, somewhere, somehow • NO / NONE (of) How many of these theories do you know ? None of them. None of the solutions hefoundworked out.

  9. ABOUT : approximatively/ an estimatedthree million people ... • BOTH I sawboth of themyesterday. Bothpupils and studentsmaysufferfrom cyber-bullying. He speaksbothlanguages • PROPORTION : one third - one quarter 1 personne sur trois : one person out of/ in 3

  10. Comparing • Depressionistwice more frequentamongunderachievers (thanamongotherpupils). • There are twice as many white students as ethnicminorityones in charter schools. • Drop-out ismuch more frequentamonglow-incomefamilychildren. • The mostwidespreaddiseases are ADHD.

  11. Statistics: basic vocabulary • INCREASE: skyrocket, rocket up, flare up, rise, be on the rise, go up • DECREASE: dwindle, decline, be on the wane, go down, plummet, collapse

  12. Translation exercise • Les deux derniers sondages interrogeant environ trois cent cinquante personnes de quarante à soixante ans ont montré qu’a la fin des années 80, une personne sur dix avait un ordinateur personnel, et qu’il y avait deux fois plus de moins de 30 ans que de personnes âgées qui savaient se servir d’un ordinateur. • On estime que deux cent personnes ont participé au raid qui comprenait 3 267 km et durait environ 15 jours, soit deux fois plus que le premier raid qui avait eu lieu au début du mois de juin, les deux étant ouverts à la plupart des bons marcheurs.

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