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NAMA:RADIAN SYAHPUTRA HASIBUAN KELAS : AKUNTANSI C
Today we're looking at presenting information using charts and graphs. We saw
three types of diagram:A bar or column graph, A line graph, And a pie chart.
Look at how Tan introduced his presentation.
Now, I'd like to refer to the first graph - as you can see this is a bar graph
measuring net sales over the first nine months of the year.
Tan says 'I'd like to refer to the first graph.'
This levelled off, then there was a dramatic drop, and then a significant
increase.
In describing trends, we use two words - one of those words is a noun or verb.
There has been a decline in sales since June, or sales since June have
declined.
But we often add more descriptive words -adjectives and adverbs. Remember
adjectives go before nouns, and adverbs go after verbs.
These describe the change in figures - was it big or small, fast or slow?
Other words for a big change are significant, marked, massive, pronounced,
substantial.
Most adjectives can also be made into adverbs, just by adding 'ly' or 'lee'. There
is no adverb for 'big', but informally we say 'a lot'.
Other words for small are slight, insignificant, and their adverbs slightly,
insignifanctly.
Other words for a fast or quick change are sharp, dramatic, sudden, and again
we add 'ly' for the adverbs.
And for a slow or medium change, we can use steady or moderate, and the
adverbs steadily and moderately
Now - try changing the phrases from noun phrases into verb phrases - for
example - if Tan says 'There was a dramatic increase in sales' - you say 'Sales
increased dramatically.'
Have a try.
There was a steady rise in sales.
Sales rose steadily.
There was a significant fall in sales.
Sales fell significantly.
This was mainly due to the drop off in air conditioner sales - so it's a seasonal
effect.
Then he says they 'experienced a sharp increase'. And he says there was a
'pronounced' drop in heater sales in October. 'Pronounced' here means
significant, or large. Finally, look at how Tan talks about his pie diagram.
...if we look at this pie diagram, you can see that air conditioners and heater
sales together represent more than half of our total sales - but they vary
seasonally, while other appliances are fairly steady through the year.
Tan says air conditioners and heaters 'represent' more than half of sales. This
means they account for more than half of the sales. We could put this another
way:
More than half of sales are represented by air conditioners and heaters.
We could say washing machines represent 15% of sales.
Washing machines account for 15% of sales.
Washing machines make up 15% of sales.