Description of graphs
Content
Listening and video activity
TASK 1 Lead-in
Answer the following questions:
- How can graphs manipulate viewers/readers?
- Have you ever noticed a graph which distorts, i.e. manipulates the reality?
TASK 2 Listening
Listen to part of the TED Ed video on how to spot a misleading graph (until 2:47) and match the halves of sentences in the table below.
How to spot a misleading graph (0:00-2:47)https://www.ted.com/talks/lea_gaslowitz_how_to_spot_a_misleading_graph| A graph isn’t an opinion, | |
| The bar chart published by Chevy | |
| Manipulating the scale | |
| Small differences between things being compared | |
| The x-axis tends to be distorted | |
| The first manipulation of the line graph | |
| The second type of manipulating the line graph | |
| Although the number of viewers in the Super Bowl chart increased, |