Speaking
Describe a chart, graph, map or diagram shown on screen.
Describe the following data in 40 seconds: a bar chart of university applications by faculty, 2020 to 2025.
Engineering rises from 4,200 to 7,800. Humanities falls from 6,100 to 3,400. Business is flat at roughly 5,000 throughout.
Open by naming the chart and its measure, give the two clearest movements with their figures, then state the takeaway: the crossover between engineering and humanities.
Read the title, axis labels, legend and units before you look at the shape of the data. Knowing that the vertical axis is percentages rather than thousands of people decides whether everything you say afterwards is accurate or wrong.
In the remaining preparation time, pick the highest value, the lowest value and the clearest trend or contrast. Say their numbers or labels under your breath once, so the figures come out attached to the right categories when recording.
Start recording with one short sentence stating what kind of image it is and what it shows, then go straight into your selected features. The 25 seconds of preparation is short, so this opening line buys you thinking room.
Finish with a single interpretive sentence about what the data implies, then keep speaking until the 40 seconds are up rather than stopping early. If time remains, add another specific value instead of repeating your opening in different words.
Open with what the image is and what it measures, give the two or three most striking values or trends, then close with a one-line takeaway. Speak for the full time — trailing off early caps oral fluency.
Reciting a memorised template with the image's actual data barely mentioned. Content is a scored trait and generic framing earns none of it.
A structure that fits any chart, graph or map: one opening sentence naming what the image is and what it measures; one or two sentences giving the most striking values or trends with their actual figures; and a closing sentence saying what the data implies. Keep the frame light — the opening and closing lines are reusable, but the middle has to carry the image's real numbers, because content is a scored trait and a generic description earns none of it.