2.6 Chart Communication

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商务英语课程:财经英语 Finance & Economics

亚利桑那州立大学

课程 2（共 4 门，商务英语课程 Business English 专项课程）

你在财务领域工作或是和财务专业人员常互动吗 ? 在你的职业生涯，你需说、写或是听得懂英文吗? 跟着本课程真实情境的人物，你会看到他们试着解决一般的商务情况，你会从你的成功和失败的经验中学习，并批判式的思考你沟通方式的抉择。在上完本课程后，你将能够读写电子邮件，报告，以及使用财务和经济的一般用语给予有效的简报。在压力之下，清楚地沟通、利用最近所学的策略，并对于你的商务沟通技巧的有效性，立即得到其他全世界财务专业人士的回馈! 获得你所想要的和全球的经理所期待的英语沟通能力。 Do you work in finance or interact with finance professionals? Is it necessary to speak, write or understand English in your career? Follow the authentic characters in this course as they work through common business situations in finance and economics. Learn from your successes and failure, and think critically about your own communication options. After taking this course, you will be able to read and create efficient e-mails, reports, and impactful presentations with words and phrases commonly used in finance and economics. Communicate clearly under pressure utilizing recently learned strategies, and obtain immediate feedback about the efficiency of your business communication skills in English from other finance professionals around the world! Gain the English communication skills that you desire and that global managers expect.

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预测 Forecasting

你已经完成数据收集、分析报告以及预测。现在，你必须要清楚解释你的结论。这周结束后，你对这艰难的任务有充分的准备，练习实用的语言来描述图表所要表达的故事。在接受挑战时，保持冷静及避免存有戒心的情况下采用策略。在挑战篇中，有凯萨琳做为一个范例，你将会有个好的开始。You’ve collected the data, done the analysis, made the forecasts. Now, you must be able to clearly explain your conclusions. After completing this week, you’ll be more prepared for this difficult task. You’ll practice useful language for describing the whole story represented in your charts and graphs and use strategies for staying calm and avoiding defensiveness when challenged. With Catherine as a model in The Challenge, you’ll be off to a good start.

2.4 Answering Questions Without Defensiveness4:04

2.6 Chart Communication5:32

教学方

Andrea Mürau Haraway
International Educator
Wanda Huber
International Educator
Jenny Young
International Educator
Beatriz Fuentes-Anderson
International Educator

脚本

Welcome back to the communication lesson of this course, how have you been?

Have you given a presentation lately, where you have had to use charts and

were overwhelmed by the numbers you had to speak about?

Or maybe you weren't sure how to express yourself clearly?

Well, if that's the case, todays lesson will definitely come in handy because we

will be taking a look at how to describe graphs and

charts as well has how to express large numbers.

In our phone call with John, Catherine mentions information about sales,

cost of sales, and general expenses.

She also offers to help John compare the budget to the prior year results.

Have you ever had to speak about some of these topics during a meeting?

Do you remember when one of the board members says,

the cost of sales is quite a bit higher than what was budgeted.

Here's an example of what Catherine's graph might have looked like.

Now, what if we had some additional information from previous years?

Let's take a look.

So what language could we use to describe the changes we see in this graph?

Well, we can certainly say that the cost of sales has fluctuated over the last few

years and the budget has increased steadily.

Which verbs did I use in those examples?

You're right.

Fluctuated and increased are correct.

Now, here are a few more charts and graphs and the words we use to describe them.

As you can see, there are several key terms we can use to describe graphs.

So go ahead and grab a pen and paper and write these down.

You never know when you might need them.

There are verbs we tend to use more than others to describe charts.

Please be aware that you may want to look into using them in the correct tense

depending on the situation.

Here are some useful verbs you would use to describe that numbers are going up.

Increase, peak, climb and

here are some verbs we would use to describe that numbers are going down.

Decrease, drop, fall, decline.

To show change, we can use the word fluctuate.

And to talk about numbers remaining the same, we can use the word stabilize.

All these verbs are regular verbs except one.

Can you find the irregular verb?

That's right, the verb fall is an irregular verb, so

be careful when using it in the past tense.

Then, you would say fell, or with the past participle you would need fallen.

Now, we can also use these verbs along with certain adverbs in order to express

ourselves better, and be able to emphasize our point when presenting.

Let's take a look at some examples.

Increase slightly, decrease slowly, peak sharply,

drop suddenly, fall quickly, climb steadily, decline drastically.

Now it's important I mention that we may not always

have to use adverbs with the words fluctuate and stabilize.

We can also say something like sales fluctuate every quarter,

or our expenses stabilized at the end of the year.

Would you like to try describing the next few graphs?

Go ahead, and don't forget to use some of the words we just studied.

Way to go, describing a graph is not always easy, It takes practice.

Become familiar with the charts you'll be presenting, but before we finish,

we have one more quick topic to touch upon.

And this has to do with with expressing large numbers.

How many times have you been in a situation where you had to talk about

big figures and were not sure if you were saying them correctly?

Well let me give you a few tips.

First, remember that in English we use commas to separate large numbers instead

of periods and we separate them in threes.

Let's take a look at some examples using international currencies,

$1,250,000, 45,678 Euros, 89,000 Yen.

Although we write the symbol before the number,

we say the name of the currency after the number.

For example, even though there's a dollar sign at the beginning of this number,

526 is pronounced five hundred and twenty six.

Now let's try and practice saying the following numbers correctly.

How did you do?

Let's go over the answers.

$25,937.

52,847,963 euros.

9,186,203 yen.

Well done everyone.

Next, it's also important to remember that you might run into British English, and

American English differences when using and with these numbers.

For example, if your audience speaks American English, they will say twenty

five thousand, nine hundred thirty-seven instead of twenty five thousand,

nine hundred and thirty seven, as it would be said in British English.

So as we wrap up our lesson, what are some key takeaways from today?

Let's reflect on what we've covered.

We have a variety of words we use to describe graphs when numbers

are increasing or decreasing.

Those are usually paired with certain adverbs depending on

the flow of the graph.

In addition,

we also talked about expressing large numbers with different currencies and

the differences between using American English versus British English.

Hopefully, you're able to use this information soon and

you continue to practice the new words you learned today.

Thank you for watching English for Business and Economics.

See you next time.

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