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Review

Describing trends
These phrasal verbs can all be used to describe economic or financial trends:
be down
hold up

be up
level off

bottom out
mount up

drop off
pick up

dry up
take off

go down
go up
turn down

Exercise 1 Patterns of meaning

Put the phrasal verbs from the list above into the following
categories according to their meaning. The first one has been
done for you as an example:
move upwards

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move downwards

stay in the same position

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be up

Exercise 2

book sales 2004

Ju
Au ly
gu
Se
pt st
em
b
O er
ct
ob
N
ov er
em
b
D
ec er
em
be
r

Ja
n

Fe 04
br
ua
ry
M
ar
ch
Ap
ril
M
ay
Ju
ne

Look at the line graph

40 000
showing sales of a book in
the year 2004. First,
35 000
replace the bold phrases
30 000
in each sentence below
25 000
with one of the phrasal
verbs from the box at the
20 000
top of this page and then
15 000
complete the sentence by
10 000
looking at the data on the
graph itself. The first one 0 5 000
has been done for you as
0
an example:

1 Sales reached their lowest point in ___________________________________ .

Sales bottomed out in December.
2 Sales rose dramatically from the beginning of ___________________________________ .
3 After their sharp rise sales stayed strong from __________________________ to __________________________ .
4 Sales increased by 100% in __________________________ .
5 Sales stopped increasing or decreasing from __________________________ to __________________________ .
6 Sales fell steadily from the beginning of ___________________________________ .
7 Sales improved a little in ___________________________________ .
8 Sales remained high in __________________________ and __________________________ .
9 Sales started to fall for the first time at the beginning of
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__________________________ .

10 By the beginning of __________________________ , sales had almost disappeared completely.

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