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    HEAAADERLOGORIGHT

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

    STATISTICS
    AND TRENDS

    QrrkoD Scan to review worksheet

    Expemo code:
    137T-B6C9-LXQL

    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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    HEAAADERLOGORIGHT
    INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2)

    STATISTICS AND TRENDS

    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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    INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2)

    STATISTICS AND TRENDS

    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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