BUSINESS SCRIPT

Presenting and explaining

graphs and figures
Introduce

Referring
Move from point to point
Describing:
Go up quickly
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Go up slowly
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Go down quickly
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Go down slowly
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Recover
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Maintain the same level
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Reach a high point
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Reach a low point
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Trends
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Future trends
Emphasising a point

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Ok, lets look at the graph / chart of

This graph / chart comparesto
This graph / chart shows operational costs from 2000
to 2008
As this graph/chart shows
As you can see
This part of the graph clearly shows
Ok ill start by
First.Next
Lets move on to the next point.
Prices surged in April 2006.
Prices soared in May 2006.
Prices shot up in May 2006.
Costs rose slowly in May in 2006.
Costs increased steadily in May 2006.
Costs went up gradually in May 2006.
Share prices slumped last year.
Share prices plummeted last year.
Share prices plunged last year.
Market share slide in June 2006.
Market share decreased slowly in June 2006.
Market share went down gradually in June 2006.
Revenues bounced back in May 2005.
Revenues recovered in May 2005.
Growth reached a plateau in March 2007.
Growth levelled off in March 2007.
Growth stabilised in March 2007.
Productivity peaked at 6% in the middle of May.
Productivity reached a high point of 6% in April.
Operational costs hit rock bottom in June 2006.
Operational costs bottomed out in June 2006.
Operational costs collapsed to it lowest level in June
2006.
st
In the 1 quarter there has been
st
Since the 1 month there was a
The trend was increasing costs between June and
October 2006.
Over the short term/run we are expecting a
Over the medium term/run there will be a
Over the long term/run well see
We do see a need for implementing this plan now.
What Im / were suggesting are cuts in production.
We need to reduce packaging size and we also need
to reduce

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