Business English 7./ DESCRIBING TRENDS

DESCRIBING TRENDS/
TENDENCIÁK ELMONDÁSA ANGOLUL

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TABLES

http://www.codeproject.com/ & http://www.worldstart.com/

Hogyan jellemezzünk egy diagramot angolul?

As you can see from the graph...
This graph shows the company's performance over the period 2010-2014.
On the horizontal axis we can see.... and ..... on the vertical axis.
Rises& falls:
to increase/ jump/ boom/ soar
to decrease/ drop/ shrink
to fluctuate
to improve
to double/ triple
to remain stable
It reached a peak.../ It reaches a low point.../ It remained steady.
... rises from x to y. It is a considerable rise./ ... decreases by x. It's a slight drop.

Szókincs:

http://savaborsa.blogspot.hu/p/uzleti-angol-business-english.html

Feladat:
Egészítsd ki angolul az alábbi grafikon jellemzését!

This graph shows the company's performance ______________________(1) a ten-month period. As you can see in the  ______________________(2), costs went down in the first two months. In the third month costs continued to ______________________(3) but more slightly, from 15 ______________________(4) 12. During the next one and the half months costs ______________________(5) stable. However, in May they ______________________(6) to 24, that's an ______________________(7) of 200%. They reached a ______________________(8) of 30 in July. And the trend only changed in September when costs started to hold steady. 

Megoldás:

1. during; 2. picture/ graph; 3. drop; 4. to; 5. remained; 6. increased; 7. increase; 8. peak