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BUSINESS ENGLISH · BUSINESS VOCABULARY · INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2)

STATISTICS
AND TRENDS

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1 Representing data

Label the images below.

a bar graph a line graph an area graph

a pie chart a spreadsheet a Venn diagram

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

Which visuals are best for ...

1. showing a trend over time?

2. comparing two or more factors among different categories?
3. showing qualitative relationships?
4. showing how something is composed?
5. comparing two trends?

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2 Presenting visuals
Complete the sentences about each visual in Exercise 1.

comparison fluctuation refers relationship see shows

1. Here you can see a between the most popular internet browsers.
2. This chart our share of the market.
3. This diagram shows the between cost, analysis and benefit.
4. This figure to our turnover last year.
5. As you can from this graph, our sales increased last year.
6. This chart shows the in the price of oil in 2015 compared with 2010.

3 Describing trends
Match the phrases to the graph below.

1. remain the same

2. go up slightly
3. rise dramatically
4. decrease slightly
5. increase sharply
6. fall dramatically

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4 Trends

There are two common ways of describing trends – with nouns and with verbs. Study the table below.

Verbs Nouns

‘UP’ increase, go up, rise, grow, an increase, a rise, a

improve growth, an improvement
The price of oil went up There was a dramatic
dramatically. increase in the price of oil.

‘SAME’ remain the same no change

Sales remained the same in the There was no change in sales
third quarter. in the third quarter.

‘DOWN’ go down, fall, drop a decrease, a fall, a drop

Profit dropped sharply. There was a sharp drop in
profit.

Now complete the sentences below with a noun or verb in the correct tense (present simple, present
continuous, past simple or present perfect simple). Use adjective or adverb quantifiers such as sharp/sharply,
slight/slightly, dramatic/dramatically, etc. Example:

Last year, our company’s sales went up slightly.

1. Last year, our company’s sales .
2. At the moment, the economy in my country .
3. In the past 10 years, there has been in global temperatures.
4. Prices in my country every year.
5. There was in house prices last year.
6. Recently, there has been in traffic on the streets.
7. The number of people with internet access in recent years.
8. There has been in the number of people without internet access.
9. The gap between rich and poor in the last decade.
10. The price of petrol in recent years.

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Key

1. Representing data

1. a bar graph 2. a pie chart 3. a Venn diagram

4. a spreadsheet 5. a line graph 6. an area graph

1. a line or area 2. a bar graph 3. a Venn diagram 4. a pie chart 5. an area graph
graph

2. Presenting visuals

1. comparison 2. shows 3. relationship 4. refers 5. see 6. fluctuation

3. Describing trends

1. 4 2. 3 3. 1 4. 5 5. 2 6. 6

4. Trends

Students’ own answers. Review the use of the different tenses, especially the present perfect simple for describing
a complete trend from past to present.

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