Exercise 4.3. Match two parts to make sentences used to refer to describing visuals.
| 1 Let’s now look at the next slide which shows e | (a) our net profit has doubled. |
| 2 The problem is illustrated g | (b) over the past five years. |
| 3 According to this graph, a | (c) of this figure here. |
| 4 You can see d | (d) the test results in this table. |
| 5 First, let me quickly h | (e) a slight increase in turnover since May. |
| 6 I’d like us to focus our attention on the significance c | (f) across the bottom. |
| 7 The new models are listed f | (g) in the next bar chart. |
| 8 You can see here the development b | (h) explain the graph. |
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| Useful Information Saying Numbers Numbers, especially long ones, are often difficult for the audience to understand. Try to say numbers slowly and clearly, and point them while speaking. Mind pronunciation of some numbers and other numerical values: v 500 five hundred v 1,500 one thousand five hundred v 350,421 three hundred and fifty thousand, four hundred and twenty-one v 211,050,780 two hundred and eleven million, fifty thousand, seven hundred and eighty v 10.6 ten point six v 8.735 eight point seven three five v 0.009 zero point oh oh nine v -5ºC five degrees below zero Celsius v ½ one-half; a half v 2/3 two-thirds v 7/8 seven-eighths v km/h kilometres per hour Remember that comma in English is used to show thousands and a point to show the decimal place. |
Exercise 4.4. How do you say these numbers in English? Write the numbers out in full T4.1.
1) 457____________________________________________________
2) 8,793___________________________________________________
3) 387,521_________________________________________________
4) 0.454___________________________________________________
5) 12.7 cm_________________________________________________
6) ¾______________________________________________________
7) 1/8_____________________________________________________
8) 1.852 km________________________________________________
9) 22%____________________________________________________
10)16 m/sec_________________________________________________
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Exercise 4.5. Choose an appropriate preposition from the box and put it into each gap.
| (twice); ; (twice); …; ; ; |
1 Our business grew by 10% last year.
2 Profits rose 11% of $2.7 billion.
3 Profits have gone from 3 million to 4 million euros.
4 Our household income has actually dropped by 10% to 15 %.
5 There’s been a decrease in annual sales to 1 million euros.
6 Last year profits stood at 2.5 million pounds.
7 This has now jumped by nearly $400 million to almost $700 million.
8 Our expenditure on ready meals fluctuated somewhere between $250 million and $300 million just 2 years ago.
9 The proportion of the food budget that we spend in restaurants has risen up from 2% to 4% in the same period.
10 There is a cost between 200 pounds and 300 pounds.
Exercise 4.6. If you give numbers during your presentation, you don’t always need to give exact figures. An audience can be confused by too much complexity, and it is often better to use approximate figures in presentations as they are easier for the audience to understand and remember. Lead your audience to your conclusion by using approximations in the table below:
| - (less) | a little, less than, just under |
| +/ - (about the same) | about, almost, approximately, around, nearly, roughly |
| + (more) | just over, well over, so far |
Now, present the following sentences using approximations.
1 As Lord May pointed, just over 1,500 million species of animals had been named since then.
2 According to the Water Companies Association (WCA), bottled water costs approximately 700 times more than tap water.
3 Train fares have risen by 5.3% in the past two years. around
4 Over the next three months, the figures continued to rise steadily and reached record levels each month: 11.5% in July, 12.8% in August, and 14.4% in September. well over. so far less than
5 The World Health Organization receives reports of 3,120 cases annually. almost
6 We have 794 offices in 163 cities worldwide. approximately
7 Food production has increased by 102% since 1965. just over
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8 Audience ratings improved significantly, climbing to 10.7% in May. just over
9 There are 358 million cases of malaria a year. less than
10 Volcano eruption involved 98 cubic kilometers of material being blown into the sky. just under
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