Describing Trends and Data

B2 · Upper-intermediate1 hr 13 minBusiness EnglishLesson 3 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: walk a stakeholder through a chart in 60 seconds — headline first, the shape in precise trend language, the main driver, and an honestly hedged conclusion.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The 60-second walkthrough

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Talking someone through a chart

    Read a 270-word text about Talking someone through a chart

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Data & Trends Vocabulary

    7 items

  3. Framework6 min

    Framework: The Chart Walkthrough

    The Chart Walkthrough, 4 steps

  4. Reading10 min

    Reading: Three model walkthroughs

    Read a 362-word text about Three model walkthroughs

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Describe the Data

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  6. Practice7 min

    Practice: Build Trend Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  7. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Presenting Quarterly Results

    Role-play: You're presenting your department's quarterly results to senior management. Use data language to describe performance. (3 lines)

  8. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: walk me through it

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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surgeplateaufluctuatepeakyear-over-year (YoY)forecastbenchmark

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