What does the word “Trend” mean?

HOW TO DESCRIBE CURRENT TRENDS

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TASHKENT UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

NAMED AFTER AL KHWARIZMI

ADAMBAEVA F.R.

What does the word “Trend” mean?

Trend is a general direction in which something is developing or changing.

WHY DO WE NEED TRENDS

• How to describe trends is an important skill which can facilitate business report writing, presentations, negotiations and many other communicative purposes in the workplace.
• In everyday life, you could describe changes in any subject because things change all the time!

TRENDS CAN BE:

Upward or increasing

Upward or increasing

Stable or when no change occurs

Stable or when no change occurs

Downward or falling

Downward or falling

Changing direction or fluctuating

Changing direction or fluctuating

Describing current changes

• To describe current trends and changes that are taking place at the moment, we use the present continuous tense.

Eg. The weather is getting warmer.

My sister's health is slowly improving.

These days, there're fewer and fewer people in the village

We are having more and more visitors in the forum

There are more and more low-quality reality shows on TV.

I seem to have less and less time to myself these days.

We can use more and more, less and less and fewer and fewer + noun phrases to refer to things which increase or decrease over time

COMPARATIVE+AND + COMPARATIVE

The earth is getting warmer and warmer.

He is getting busier and busier at the moment.

I think films are getting more and more violent.

Traveling is becoming less and less difficult.

We often use

get and become

with comparative adjectives

Our website is becoming more popular.

Laptops are getting cheaper.

Here are some verbs you can use to describe change and movement.

Upward Trend

Let’s study some examples

• The number of bloggers is increasing.
• House prices are going up.
•  Costs of financial services are rising in every country.
• The city is growing rapidly.
• Tom's Japanese is improving little by little.

Downward Trend

Let’s study some examples

The crime rate is decreasing in Canada

The temperature is dropping rapidly.

Their profits are falling steadily.

It is encouraging to read that illiteracy is declining.

The number of customers is going down

Listen to five people describing trends and match them to the graphs A and B

Listen to five people describing trends and match them to the graphs A and B

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Speakers 1,3,5

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