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Graph Description Practice

The document contains a worksheet with graphs and charts related to business trends. It asks the reader to label graphs showing trends that increase, fall, stay the same and fluctuate. It also contains questions about identifying different types of charts and completing statements about trends shown in a sample sales graph. The worksheet evaluates understanding of vocabulary used to describe business trends and charts.

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Graph Description Practice

The document contains a worksheet with graphs and charts related to business trends. It asks the reader to label graphs showing trends that increase, fall, stay the same and fluctuate. It also contains questions about identifying different types of charts and completing statements about trends shown in a sample sales graph. The worksheet evaluates understanding of vocabulary used to describe business trends and charts.

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Business Builder

7.11a
Company trends
Teacher Resource Series

Worksheet

A Label these graphs with words from the box.

to increase to fall to stay the same to be above/below to reach a peak to hit a low
to drop back to recover to stand at to remain high to fluctuate and then to level off

X
X

to stay the same


1 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2 to increase
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 3 to fall
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 4 to be above /below
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

5 to––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
reach a peak 6 to drop back
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 7 to hit a low
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 8 ______________
to recover

to fluctuate and then level off


9 10 to remain high 11 to stand at
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

B Answer questions 1–12.


Label these charts with words from the box.

(line) graph bar chart pie chart table

A B C
32 76 21
65 12 30
43 9 12

1 pie chart 2 bar chart 3 table 4 line graph


–––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Choose the correct words to complete this presentation extract.

Sales (millions) I’d like you to look at the (5) graph/graphic, which shows
5.8 our sales in the first (6) half/quarter of this year. The
0.2 vertical axis represents sales in millions of (7) unities/units.
5.6 As you can see from the graph, sales rose from 5.6m in
January (8) until/to a (9) figure/number of 5.8m in June.
J F M A M J Months In other words, sales rose (10) with/by 0.2m.

11 Choose the correct preposition.

a Sales increased by/of/in 3%. (after a verb)


b There was an increase in sales by/of/in 3%. (after a noun and before an amount)
c There was a 3% increase by/of/in sales. (after a noun and before the topic)

12 Say if these things are good news or bad news:

a Sales increased. b Inflation increased. c Sales improved. d Inflation improved.


good bad good good

 Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2002 37 This page may be photocopied for use in class

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