Vocabulary More business presentations

Dialogue

[JOAN]As you know,I’ve been spending a lot of time at Sunset’s headquarters.And I’ve been very impressed.

It’s true that we had doubts about some of the executive team,but the rest of the staff are solid.

Simon and I agree that their engineering team is particularly good.

However,we have to make one or two changes,which brings us to my next point.

Simon stronly recommended that I talk with Ed Fife,who was Sunset’s director of engineering.

After just one conversation with him,he become the strongest candidate for COO.

He understands the company’s problems,and he has ideas to solve them.

I’m very happy that he’s accepted our offer.

I feel the same way about Carol Brandt.She was the controller,and did an excellent job.

Best of all,Carol and Ed work well together and share a common vision for Sunset’s future.

[HARRY]Joan,I have a question.Will we be keeping the name ‘Sunset’ for our software?

[JOAN]That’s an excellent question and honestly,I don’t know yet.
My guess is that we’ll keep the name ‘Sunset Computers’ for a long time in Asia and Africa,where the brand is very strong.

[HARRY]That makes sense.Thank you.

[JOAN]Now,I’d like to move on to my final point.
These pie charts show what the percentage of our sales is in each continent.

[JOAN]As you can clearly see,the acquisition of Sunset has helped us become much more global.
31 percent of our sales are now in Asia.
I’d also like to draw your attention to the figures for Africa.
where our sales focus has increased from only 3 percent to 11 percent.

A dramatic difference.

Expressions Transitioning to the next point

Transitioning(过渡) to the next point

Use expressions like these to transition from one point to the next during a presentation.

The headquarters building is fairly old. That brings me to my next point. We’re moving in July.

The headquarters building is fairly old. That brings me to my next point. We’re moving in July.

Let’s move on to the organizational flowchart.
Let’s move on to the organizational flowchart.

I’d like to draw your attention to the third column in this table. I’d like to draw your attention to the third column in this table.

I want to transition to the next topic – payroll.
I want to transition to the next topic – payroll.

Use expressions with as you to transition to a point that already may be obvious or clear.

As you may know, Clark is leaving in November.
As you may know, Clark is leaving in November.

As you can see on this bar graph, sales are up, particularly in South America.
As you can see on this bar graph, sales are up, particularly in South America.

Use expressions like these to transition to a point that contrasts with a previous point:

We share a common vision. However, we have different strategies. We share a common vision. However, we have different strategies.

The pie chart shows spending is down. On the other hand, you can see that sales have also decreased.
The pie chart shows spending is down. On the other hand, you can see that sales have also decreased.

Use expressions like these to emphasize the importance of your next point:

Best of all, the program allows us to reward our best salespeople. Best of all, the program allows us to reward our best salespeople.

Worse yet, sales are down for the third straight month.
Worse yet, sales are down for the third straight month.

Listen and record what you hear.

As you can see on this bar graph, sales are up.

As you may know, we’re building a new headquarters(总部).

Best of all, the new controller worked in Africa.

We share a common vision, particularly with training.
Let’s move on to the second table, on page five.

I’d like to draw your attention to this flowchart.

Prepositions for trends

Use **increase **or **decrease **+ by + number to talk about a degree or amount of change. You can also say rise by or fall by.

Sales rose by 13 percent last year. Sales rose by 13 percent last year.

Spending will decrease by $1.2 million over the next five years. Spending will decrease by $1.2 million over the next five years.

Use to + number to talk about a change to a specific figure.

Inventory increased to $200,000.
Inventory increased to $200,000.

Unemployment fell to 7.3 percent.
Unemployment fell to 7.3 percent.

Use from + number to identify a figure before it changed.

Inventory rose to $200,000 from $187,000.
Inventory rose to $200,000, from $187,000.

Unemployment decreased to 7.3 percent from 7.5 percent. Unemployment decreased to 7.3 percent, from 7.5 percent.

Use remain steady + at or hold steady + at to talk about a specific figure that hasn’t changed.

Costs remain steady at $6.8 million.
Costs remain steady at $6.8 million.

Sales held steady at 370,000 units.
Sales held steady at 370,000 units.

Move the text to the correct gaps.

Sales look good. In general, we saw sales increase by 7 percent last month, from $5.6 billion to almost $6 billion.
In the Americas, we saw $2.2 billion in sales. That’s right – sales rose to $2.2 billion from $1.97 billion.
That’s nearly a 12 percent increase.

But I’d also like to draw your attention to Europe, where sales held fairly steady at $1.1 billion.

Listen and record what you hear.

Sales remained steady at 200 units.

Sales increased by 5 percent last month.
Profits rose from 10,000 to 20,000.

Our number of customers rose to 500 last week.

Profits held steady at $100,000.

Final Task Presenting information

You are giving a presentation to colleagues about your company’s performance. In your introduction, you said that you would cover three points: sales, profits and costs. Now cover these three points and answer any questions.

My first point is about sales.
Sales have increased by 15 percent in the last year.
Yes, it is. Now, let’s move on to profits.
Because of our good sales, profits went up 10 percent.
Me, too. Now for my final point: costs.
Yes, but she’s helped cut costs by 18 percent.
It’s very good news for this year.

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