Language note
Respectively
is used to give separate pieces of information about two or more
entities. For example,
Sales of Magazines C and D decreased by 5% and 10%
respectively
= Magazine C lost 5% and Magazine D lost 10%.
c
Students discuss the phrases in pairs and then feed back to the class.
Answers
Phrases that describe positive change:
Profits are improving.
Phrases that describe negative change:
Sales are falling.
Our losses are increasing.
There’s been a dramatic 20% decline in the number of copies sold.
Sales have dropped from …
We lost 7 percentage points of our original market share altogether.
Our competitors’ sales have risen by …
Our profits slumped by 27%.
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Cambridge English for the Media Cambridge University Press 2009
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