DESCRIBING A COMPANY - Good morning, ladies and gentleman and welcome to my presentation of X sales in the year X.DESCRIBING CHARTS

- As you can see, 2011 was a rather turbulent year for us, with a lot of ups and downs-

- (After launching our product) There was a gradual rise in sales in January from 0 to just under 1,000.- Following a slight fall in February, we commenced an advertising campaign wich resulted in sales rocketing by 8,000 from around 2,000 to a peak of 10,000.- There was a small decrease at the end of March before sales levelled off and remained constant throughout April and May.- In July, sales dipped to approximately 7,000 but improved in August to reach 8,000.- Unfortunately, sales then plummeted, dropping dramatically between September and October by 7,000 unit, bottoming out and hitting a year low of 1,000.- Luckily, sales began to recover, nonetheless unsteadily and with frequent fluctuation.- In the late December sales stood at 4,000; and the good news is: It looks as if well avoid bankruptcy!Launch a product: lanzar un productoA gradual rise in sales: un crecimiento gradualA slight fall: una leve cadaSales rocketing: to rise extremely quickly or make extremely quick progress towards success.A small decrease = a slight fallSales levelled off: to make or become flat, even, steady etc (estabilizarse)Remain constant: changelessSales dipped: to slope downwards (descender, bajar)Improve = increaseTo reach: alcanzarPlummet: tofallordropswiftly (caer en picado)Drop dramatically = plummetBottoming out: to have reached the lowest point in a continuously changing situation and to be about to improve.Hit: alcanzarUnsteadily: de manera inseguraSales Stood (STAND-STOOD-STOOD): aguantar

TENDENCIAS AL ALZA:VERBNOUN

To rise rose risena rise

To improve improvedan improvement

To increase increased = (To go up = To ascend = To gain)an increase

To recover recovereda recovery

To reach (a peak) reached (a peak)a peak

To rocket (if the rise is very quickly)a rocketing

TENDENCIAS A LA BAJA:VERBNOUN

To decline declineda decline

To fall fell fallena fall

To decrease decreased (To fall =To dip = To drop = To decline = To descend)a decrease

To plummet plummeted plummeted (to decrease rapidly)

To bottom out

SITUACIN DE ESTABILIDAD:VERBNOUN

To level offLevelled off

To remain steady / constantRemained steady

TIPOS DE CAMBIO:ADJECTIVEADVERB

dramaticdramatically

Sharp (puntiagudo)Sharply

Rapid (moving fast) There was a rapid increase in salesRapidly Sales increased rapidly

Steep (empinado, inclinado) There is a steep fall in..Steeply Sales fell steeply

significantSignificantly

SlightSlightly

Slow There was a slow drop in salesSlowly Sales dropped slowly

Steady (no change)Steadily

USE OF PREPOSITIONS: FROM / TO: To describe the direction of movement. BY: To describe de difference. AT: Describe a static point on the graph OF: To give any quantity following a nounThere was an increase FROM 2m TO 5m. It increased BY 3/ There was an increase OF/BY 3m. sales peaked/ bottomed out AT 5m/ Sales currently stnd AT 3m. There was an increase OF 2m.

Thepie chartshowsthepercentage ofgraduates from Bluesky University in 2006, entering different employment sectors.Most ofthe graduates have entered to the tertiary and secondary economic sectors, which are service industries and manufacturing industry. For the first sector,there isa percentage of 33% of the graduates, and for the other one, there is aproportion of16.3%. These two areasaccountfor 49.3% ofthe population studied. Thesefiguresare followed by the ones related to the sector of education (with 14.7%of the total) and the sector of politics & government, with anamount of12.2%.After these, the next employment sectors with amoderateproportion of graduates are the entertainment area with 7.8%, the science & technology sector with 7.3%, and the civil service area with 5.6%. The sectors withfewer peopleare the charity sector (0.3%), and the sport sector (0.1%). Theremaining2.8% belongs to other sectors which are not included in the chart.Nouns/Sustantivos Pie chart: Tipo de grfica, grfica circular Pecentage of: Porcentaje de (seguido por un nmero) Proportion of: Proporcin de (seguido por un porcentaje) Population : La poblacin Figures: Nmeros, cifras Of the total: Del total (precedido por un porcentaje) Amount of: Una cantidad de (seguido de un nmero o porcentaje) People: PersonasAdjectives/Adjetivos: Studied: Estudiada/Estudiado Moderate: Moderado (a) Fewer: Menos Remaining: RestanteVerbs/Verbos: To show: Mostrar There is/ There are: Haber To account: RepresentarAdverbs/Adverbios Most of: La mayora

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