Describing trends

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 411.

1. Look at some of the verbs and adjectives, describing changes in price, quantity (see appendix)

2. Here are some other expressions which are used to describe trends. Which parts of the following graph would you use them to talk about?

to fluctuate to reach a peak to level off to stand at to remain stable

3. Now match these parts to make sentences about the graph.

4. Read the text about company's sales figures and draw the graph to describe the company performance

The graph shows the sales results for the last year. Sales remained steady at 6,000 units in January and February. In March, when the spring sales campaign began, sales increased slightly to 7,000 and then they went up by another 1,000 units in April to stand at 8 000 units. The competitors launched a rival product in May and sales fell to 5,000 units. They decreased by another thousand units in June. But due to discount to the wholesalers sales rose steadily back to 5,000 units in July and then 6,000 units in August. The dramatic rise came in the next two months. Sales increased from 10,000 units in September to 13,000 units in October because of the Christmas order. Sales went down by 6,000 units in November when the Christmas orders stopped. They stayed at 7,000 until the end of the year.

5. Explain why these things happened in the company above. Use: because of, due to, as the result of.