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    Reading Chart and Graph

    English for Bussiness

    Created by Bunga Astra Gracia, S.Sos., M.M.


    English for Business
    Meeting Material Meeting Material
    1 Review of Tenses 8 Bussiness Telephoning
    2 Making Arrangement 9 Exchanging & Checking
    Information

    3 Request & Inquiry Letter 10 Dealing with Complain


    4 Order & Sales Letter 11 Job Description
    5 Introduction Company & 12 Job Advertisement
    yourself

    6 Presentation Skills 13 Application Letter & CV


    7 Trends : Chart and 14 Job Interview
    Graph
    Reading Charts and Graphs
    When we usually read Chart and Graph there are 3
    main part of information to remember
    1. The introduction
    “This Graphs show..…”
    “ This Chart represents….”
    2. The topic
    “….the total number of sales…”
    “…the result of our product effectiveness..”
    3. The time frame
    “…over the past 3 months…”
    “…..between 2010 and 2013…”
    There are 4 basic trends for Graph
    • Upward movement
    • Downward movement
    • No Movement
    • Change in Direction
    Graph can vary in DEGREE
    • A little
    • Little by little
    • Moderately
    • Significantly
    • Considerably
    • substantially

    Graph can also vary in SPEED


    • Slowly
    • Slightly
    • Gradually
    • Rapidly
    • dramatically
    Example

    “ This Graph shows sales of product X from January to December


    2012. As you can see, overall sales have increased gradually from
    10.000 units in January to 25.000 units in December. Sales
    decreased slightly between May and June, but grew from August
    to October …”
    Example
    Example

    This Graph shows the new home sales from March


    2012 to December 2013

    As you can see, sales fluctuated all year. The


    peaked in March and January at 465K sales, but soon
    sales dropped suddenly in June

    Sales quickly recovered by September where


    reached 460K once again
    Exercises :

    • What does the line graph show?


    • How can you describe the number of sales between
    January to February?
    • In which month did sales peak?
    Exercises :

    • In which month did sales drop to the lowest?


    • Did sales in this month drop : slightly moderately
    significantly ?
    Exercises :

    • In which month did sales decline significantly?


    • In which month did sales soar/ skyrocket?

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