OK so now let's get into let's get into writing the overview for the table here for the table graph
that we have right here.
Table So really a table graph really where it's just a table or table graph.
It's just a table until you consider you know your teachers make mistakes a little here is here and
there but I correct and no one's perfect and not expect to be perfect.
That's why if you want to you can get a score of nine as the people think you have to be perfect for
a score of nine.
No you don't.
Look you're entitled to some mistakes because we're all human.
All right now we're at the table we already have the introduction here.
And you know the introduction captures just kind of what it's about.
OK.
And now we move on to the general overview here where we have a general overview what we're doing is
the same process it does.
We're looking at we're looking at the table we're looking at what was or what are what are our highs
and lows.
And there are a couple of different ways we can do it.
When we're talking about a general overview we can look at we can look at each category like food housing
clothing you look at the high and low for food high and low for housing the high and low for clothing
the high and low for entertainment.
We can do it we can do it that way in terms of looking at in general what are our highest and our lowest
percentages.
Okay.
So we can we can take it by by category.
And if you're going to take it by category look at in general for each category this is what our studies
are what our sentences will look like
basically in the food category.
Spain
and Germany
are by the highest and lowest
percentages
while in the housing section of spending.
These cuts are taken by on those in the housing.
The U.S. is Germany
and the lowest is Spain.
So what we can do here is we can say well the housing section of the spending.
You know we can say
we can see a reversal
of these cuts in Germany and Spain because Germany is now at the lowest of the highest in housing in
Spain is at the bottom.
All right.
So you can see that in this sentence.
We cover the high and low for food.
We covered the high and low for housing.
OK.
And that's why that's why it's really helpful to be with the right compound and complex sentences.
It's really really helpful to be able to do that if you can if you can accomplish that you can really
be able to cut down on how many sentences you're writing and be able to show a high level of English
writing.
Now we're going to move on.
Let's take a look at the route.
Remember the general overview paragraph we're not talking about percentages you don't see any numbers
yet.
Right.
You don't see any numbers and you shouldn't be writing any numbers yet.
We don't get into the percentages or the numbers until we get to the third and fourth paragraph.
Keep keep keep harping on that I keep saying that over and over but it has kind of missed that sometimes
we don't get into the numbers until we get into our third and fourth paragraph.
All right.
And in the second paragraph in the general overview keep it general.
OK.
Keep in general so with the clothing we can see what's the the low is France for clothing and the high
is Germany
not
citizens of France.
All right so that's a sentence about clothing.
Now some students say Well can I just write a sentence for each category.
When you're what what happens is when you're writing too many sentences you're taking time.
OK you can take time.
You have to learn how to write compound in complex sentences also because it's going to increase your
grade.
If you're writing all simple sentences if you're writing all simple sentences you're going to take a
lot of time.
OK.
And also you're going to show a lower level of English ability.
All right.
So you've got to mix it up and you got to show variety.
OK in our last sentence for the general overview we're looking at entertainment and entertainment we
can see that Germany spends the most on entertainment and Turkey spends the least
in the area of entertainment.
And we've covered everything we covered how we cover food and housing we cover clothing and we cover
it.
We cover entertainment be a small eat
and there are multiple ways to do this because we see that Germany because we see that Germany is the
most in three different categories we could have done it that way.
Another another way of writing another way of writing this overview paragraph right.
Another way of writing this overview paragraph let's call this example one of the overview paragraph
and now look at another way we could have written the overview paragraph here.
For example two of the overview paragraph you look at another one we could have written have written
the overview paragraph in terms of the second example we could write
into categories
of housing
clothing and entertainment.
Germans
spend more than citizens in any other country.
Right.
You got that.
OK.
And then we can move on and talk about we could talk about our our bottom now.
You talk about However
when it comes
to
when it comes to others category of clothing France clothes the Congo France
has
the lowest percentage
France has the lowest percentage and for entertainment
for entertainment that we can't find
Turkey in this position as a final point
Spain
spins the high us.
Now for us to pin the least in
housing.
So there we have two examples of doing the overview paragraph two examples of doing the overview paragraph.
OK.
Those are are two examples of doing it both work and both capture the both of these examples capture
the general information that we see the general information that we see in this in this the general
information that we see in the table here.
OK.
And it's a really good example of really how to do it.
OK.
And one of the benefits of doing this course is you get to send me an example for a task number one
for me to look at.
You get to see one example of a task number one for me to look at and make sure you're doing it correctly
and you also get an opportunity to send me an example of your task number two to look at and see if
you do it correctly.
So that's a difference in terms of our course is we actually will look at your examples and be able
to tell you if you're doing it correctly or not.
Thank you all.
We also have peer review where you're able to submit your examples for peer review then your peers will
help you to examine to see if you're doing it correctly.
OK.
All right.
So let's stop and move on to another general overview.