- Communicative Objective: Learn to describe increases, decreases, fluctuations, stability, and gradual or dramatic changes in data, behavior, and social or business trends.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- Sales have increased steadily over the past three years.
- There was a sharp decline in demand during the first quarter, followed by a gradual recovery.
- The number of online users has nearly doubled since the service was introduced.
- Although prices have remained relatively stable, operating costs have risen significantly.
- If the current trend continues, demand is expected to reach its highest level next year.
- Grammar Focus: Present perfect for trends; past simple for completed periods; passive prediction structures; comparative quantitative expressions; participle clauses.
- Vocabulary Focus: fluctuate, steadily, decline, recovery, peak
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Describing Trends and Changes
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