商务英语听说教程.上 Unit 7.pptVIP

Pre-listening Listening Part A Part B Further Practice Activities Discuss the following questions with your partner. 1) How do you understand the saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words? 2) In what ways do you think graphs are better than words in presenting statistics? 3) Is it necessary to describe every figure of a graph? If not, what should be described? Part A - Task 1 Conversation Listen to the following conversation and fill in the missing words. Betty: Hello, Neil. What can I help you with today? Neil: Can you go over some useful language for describing graphs in business? Betty: I’d be delighted. So, to start with, when you’re talking about graphs, you need to give a general overview. You could say ‘ ’ or ‘ ’. And then to explain the situation, you can say ‘ ’ or ‘___________________’. The situation is good The situation is disappointing We can see from the figures that… As the graph shows… Part A - Task 2 Monologue 1) You are going to hear a monologue which introduces three types of graphs. What are they? Label each of the following graphs with corresponding name. . . . bar graph circle graph (pie chart) line graph 2) Listen to the monologue again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). 1) Different types of bar graphs are always interchangeable. 2) You can use a simple vertical bar graph to make a comparison between two or more variables. 3) A circle graph is the same as a pie chart. 4) When the number of data points is sophisticated to work with, it would be better to use a circle graph. 5) A line graph displays information as a series of data points connected by straight line segments. F F T T T Part A - Task 3 Follow-up Describe and draw graphs with your partner