Market Leader Intermediate 3rd edition SB

UNIT 6 •• MONEY
LANGUAGE REVIEW
Describing
trends
We can describe trends in English in different ways.
1 Verbs of change
Demand for BlackBerries has soared in recent years.
Sales are fo/ling.
Prafits improved in July.
2 Prepositions
Prafits rase 5% to $1.4 billion.
The sales of Dupont have gone up fram $19.6 billion to $27.4 billion.
Sales rase by 20% aver the holiday period.
This represents a decrease of 16.4% from the first quarter.
The average retail gasoline price stood at $4.11 a gal/on yesterday.
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3 Different verb forms
The figures paint a gloomy picture for Japanese growth. (present simple)
The unemployment rate is rising. (p resent continuous)
Last summer, our market share fell. (past simple)
This year, orders fram Brazil have levelled off. (present perfect)
If the price of petral rises further, we'll make a loss. (first conditional)
Cl Grammar reference page 148
What kind of movement do these verbs describe? Match them to the
symbols (1-11) on the left. Then compare your answers with your partner.
(You will need to use some symbols more than once.)
decline
gain
drop
increase
rocket
plummet
double
fall
halve
level off
triple
recover
decrease
fluctuate
improve
peak
rise
jump
Which of the verbs in Exercise A also have noun forms? What are they?
EXAMPLE: to increase - an ;f)crease
look at the graphs below. Complete the sentences about them with
appropriate prepositions.
1 Sales have increased ..... €Sm ...... ..... €7m.
2 Sales have increased ............ €2m.
3 There has been an increase ........... €2m in our sales.
4 Sales now stand ............ €7m.
5 Sales reached a peak ..... ..... €7m in July.
6 Sales reached a low point ........... €lm in April.
Write two more sentences about each of these graphs.
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