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• Referring to visuals

• Approximate figures

• Verb forms and uses

• Verbs of movement

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Graph

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Bar
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Pie
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Diagram

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 Approximate figures
• Way over, a great deal more than

• Well over, somewhat more than

• Just over, slightly more than

• Around, about, roughly, approximately, somewhere

in the region of

• Almost, nearly, not quite, just short of

• Nowhere near, far less than, nothing like as much as

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 Verb forms and uses
• Action in progress
• Present continuous: Revenue is rising at the moment
• Past contonuous: Revenue was rising last year

• Looking back
• Present to the past (Present perfect): Sales have risen by 8% this
year
• Past to earlier past (Past perfect): In 2010 the market stabilized.
Earlier, sales had risen 20%

• Looking back at an action in progress

• Action in progress upto a point in the past (past perfect cont):
Sales had been rising strongly until a competitor arrived
• Action in progress upto the present (present perfect): Sales have
been rising steadily for the past 3 years
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 Verbs of movement
• Upward
Go up, increase, rise, raise, put up, climb, pick up, grow,
expand, double, show an upward trend

• Rapid upward
Jump, rocket, soar, take off

• Downward
Go down, decrease, fall, drop, slip back, reduce, lower,
bring down, cut, shrink,, halve, show a downward trend

• Rapid downward
Plummet, collapse, crash, slump

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 Verbs of movement
• Highs and lows
Peak, reach a peak, bottom out, hit a low

• Volatility
Fluctuate, be volatile

• Stability
Stay the same, be flat, be unchanged, level out, level off

• Good and bad

• Improve, get better, strengthen,, recover, bounce back,
• Deteriorate, get worse, weaken

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