VOCABULARY. Task 1. Find the meanings for the following listed words in your English-English dictionary (translation is possible)

Task 1. Find the meanings for the following listed words in your English-English dictionary (translation is possible)

Word Meaning Translation

1. pie chart ………………………………………………………………

2. map …………………………………………………………………

3. bar graph …………………………………………………………………

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4. table …………………………………………………………………..

5. diagram ……………………………………………………………………

6. picture …………………………………………………………………..

7. line graph ……………………………………………………………………

8. flow chart …………………………………………………………………….

9. plan …………………………………………………………………….

Task 2. Look at the following words. Read and translate them into Russian, then draw a picture to each word to show you understand the meaning of the words given

dotted line curve fluctuating line vertical axis broken line

undulating line horizontal axis solid line

Task 3. Do you know the words used to describe movement or trends?

Read a report about the recent performance of ScotAir, a large passenger airline, paying attention to the numbered words. Translate these words into the Russian language.

ScotAir recent performance and trends in the passenger air travel industry.

Last year was a good year for the passenger aviation industry: the overall number of passengers (1) went up, and the trend continued into this year. We expect passenger number to continue to (2) increase for some time. However, our profits began to (3) fall at the beginning of the year. The reason for this was the arrival of two new low-cost competitors. The last two months have not been easy, but we hope that this difficult phase is now coming to an end. As soon as we get the green light, we plan to buy three more planes to add to our fleet. With these planes and the resources already available to us – crew, our existing planes, airport slots, etc. – we intend to set up a new low-cost subsidiary. This will be a milestone in our company’s history. For many years, our percentage of the market (4) remained steady, but it (5) went down for the first time ever at the beginning of the year. However, with our new subsidiary we expect it to (6) grow again. We’ve set ourselves a deadline: to become the market leader once again by the end of next year.

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Task 4. The vocabulary in this exercise is used to describe movement or trends.

Find four pairs of opposites in the box below

A. fall decrease go down

grow increase go up

rise shrink

1………………………….

2………………………….

3…………………………..

4…………………………..

B. Translate the following words and word combinations. All of them describe

movement or trends.

1) increased rapidly ………………………….

2) went up a bit ………………………….

3) climbed slightly ………………………….

4) increased steadily ………………………….

5) dropped markedly ………………………….

6) declined a little ………………………….

7) rose dramatically ………………………….

C. There are several ways of expressing the same meaning. Try to find synonyms to the given word.

a) to increase - an increase

to………… …………..

to…………… ………….

to…………. ……………

to…………… ……………

b) to decrease - a decrease

to…………… ……………..

to…………… ……………..

to……………. …………….

to…………… …………….

c) to stay the same

to………………………

to………………………

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d) to reach a maximum

to ………………………

to………………………..

e) to recover…........... - a recovery

to ……………….. - …………………

to………………… - …………………

f) to deteriorate…………. - a deterioration

to…………………… - ……………….