Teaching assignment for Business Communication

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Teaching assignment for Business Communication

• Describing trends
• (using graphs)

By Mark
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Plan of activities

• Introduction.
• Presentation of graph styles.
• Useful language for describing trends.
• Listen to me describe some sales trends and draw
  a graph.
• Conclusion.

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Unemployment increased to 11 in September
Reference Business objectives Hollet V. Oxford
University Press 1998
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Interest rates decreased by 2 in May
Reference Business objectives Hollet V. Oxford
University Press 1998
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Consumer spending rose sharply in November
Reference Business objectives Hollet V. Oxford
University Press 1998
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Retail price index went up slightly in week 36.
Reference Business objectives Hollet V. Oxford
University Press 1998
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Useful words for describing graphs.

• Up
• Increase
• rise
• go up
• sharply
• dramatically

• Down
• Decrease
• fall
• go down
• slightly
• steadily

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Your turn!

• Listen carefully to the instructions and draw a
  graph using the information you hear. Just listen
  the first time and then draw the graph the second
  time.

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The correct graph
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Conclusion

• We have looked at different styles of graph.
• Looked at useful words for describing graphs.
• Drawn a graph from instructions.

Reference Business objectives Hollet V. Oxford
University Press 1998