Communicative English III

Elementary
Business English
Unit 1: Company Performance
Session: Thursday, September 10th 2020

Prof. Carmen Gloria Pérez, Mg.

Profesor Asistente
Escuela de Administración y Negocios
Universidad de Concepción
Campus Chillán
Learning outcome: reading charts and explaining trends.

 Vocabulary: products, services, economics, finance.

 Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs of manner.
 Simple Present & Simple Past.

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 There are different ways to present information:

A Pie Chart
A Table

Chart = Graph
(synonyms) presentinginfomation
 There are different ways to present information:

A Bar Chart
A Line Chart
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Horizontal

presentinginformation
This chart shows
. Toyota car sales last month in millions of dollars

Slightly = not very much

Car sales rose slightly to just over 2 million dollars in May.

This chart shows
. MTS sales of shoes in millions of dollars

Sales of [shoes ] rose slightly to just over 2 million dollars in May.

Vocabulary
This chart shows
. MTS sales of shoes millions of dollars

Sales of [shoes ] rose slightly to just over 2 million…

Past tense Adverb

Verb
Vocabulary
This chart shows
. MTS sales of ………?

Rose Remained Fell Rose

slightly Constant sharply sharply

Vocabulary
Verbs to describe
. charts

Present Past
These groups of verbs
Present Past fall fell
can be used as synonyms
rise rose when describing charts. decrease decreased
increase increased go down went down
go up went up Drop dropped
peak peaked We’ll preferably use past
Decline Declined
tense verbs when
describing charts.

Vocabulary
How were sportswear sales last January?

In January sales fell slightly. To be exact they

fell from 1.5 to 1 million dollars…… In
February they remained constant at 1
million

presentingfigures
 A fact:
Last month we sold $ 20,000,000.-
This month we sold $ 10,000,000.-
Conclusion

Sales dropped to $ 10,000,000.- Sales dropped by 50%.

To specifies the complete amount go up By specifies the increment or decrease
rise
drop
fall Exceptions:
Remain AT + number
decrease
decline

UsingPrepositions
 A fact:
Last month we sold CHP 20,000,000.-
This month we sold CHP 10,000,000.-
Conclusion
Conclusion

Sales dropped from CHP 20,000,000 to 10,0000-

Use from/to for fluctuation

UsingPrepositions
Match the phrases to the lines in the chart
1 a) remained steady
b) fluctuated
2 c) increased slightly
d) decreased sharply
3 e) decreased slightly
f) increased sharply
4 g) dropped sharply
h) stayed the same
5
i) went up a little
6 j) went down slightly

Unit 1 Homework
Match the phrases (1-4) with the graphs (a-d). (T15)
Then listen and match the graphs (a-d) with the department.

Unit 1 Homework
What’s true about Sarah’s car price?
1. Sarah’s car price remained constant
from 2001 to 2007

2. Sarah’s car price fell sharply from

2001 to 2007.

3. Sarah’s car price fell to USD 19,700 in

2006.

4. Sarah’s car Price fell by aprox. 25% in

2007.

5. Sarah’s car Price didn’t rise in 6 years

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Unit 1 Homework
 Unscramble the sentences
in your worksheets and
1
match them to these
graphs.

Unit1 Homework
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